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One of the grant’s sustainability components also involves a collaboration between Cornell researchers Jefferson Tester, the David Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow and Professor in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Johannes Lehmann, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of soil and crop sciences in the School of Integrated Plant Science. Other participating Cornell faculty include: Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Beth Ahner, professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental... Read more

The Excellence in Process Development Research Award recognizes individuals who have made significant technical contributions to the advancement of process development within research, teaching, or regulatory activities. Accomplishments must be disseminated by means of well-documented materials. Read more

Jingxu (Kent) Zheng, Qing Zhao et al. from Prof. Lynden Archer’s research group, report on a new concept that utilizes epitaxy to template the metal electrodeposition morphology in battery anodes, resulting in highly stable battery anodes that can operate over 10,000 cycles at ultrahigh rate. In the latest issue of Science, appears a report from the Archer group describing a novel strategy to manipulate electrochemical and interfacial reactions in battery anodes that utilize metals such as Lithium, Sodium, Zinc, and Aluminum for low-cost & high-energy storage of electricity. In the paper, they... Read more

A research team led by Chris Alabi, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has developed a method that employs fluorescent probes to see and measure the rate at which linkers successfully release drugs in living cells. The research, “ Responsive Antibody Conjugates Enable Quantitative Determination of Intracellular Bond Degradation Rate,” published Oct. 8 in the journal Cell Chemical Biology. Read more

The grant was awarded to Versatope Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup founded by a team including David Putnam, professor of biomedical engineering, and Matt DeLisa, the William L. Lewis Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Putnam and DeLisa developed the vaccine at Cornell and published a study in 2017 detailing its potential. Read more

Lucas Landherr, Ph.D. ChemE, was awarded the Ray Fahien Award by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). This award is given in honor of Ray Fahien, who was editor of Chemical Engineering Education from 1967 1995, and who was effectively the founding father of the journal, establishing it as a premier publication vehicle in the field of chemical engineering education. This award is given to an educator who has shown evidence of vision and contribution to chemical engineering education within their first 10 years as faculty. Lucas Landherr is currently an Associate Teaching... Read more

Matthew J. Paszek, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the Smith School, studies the glycocalyx—sugars that cover our cells. He has found that, in cancer cells, the glycocalyx can expand dramatically, affecting cell signaling and leading to more aggressive cancers. Read more

Prof. Fengqi You of Cornell University estimated that thanks to the combination of computing power and better algorithms, a computation that would have taken 124 years in 1988 would now take one second. And D-Wave's Cathy McGeoch said that in response to some of the early results produced on D-Wave hardware, people started revisiting some classical algorithms and made large strides in performance. Read more

The 2019 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences will be awarded to Robert Langer, Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, today, September 26, at 5:00 pm EST, in room 26-100 at MIT. The ceremony, which will be open to the public and feature a talk by Langer on Chemistry in Support of Human Health, will stream live at https://cheme.mit.edu/dreyfus-prize-webcast/ Langer will be honored for discoveries and inventions of materials for drug delivery systems and tissue engineering that have had a transformative impact on human health through the chemical sciences. To learn more... Read more

The Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering would like to extend a warm welcome to the incoming class of M.S. and Ph.D. students! Read more