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Eight graduating seniors from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering were honored with 10 Graduating Student Awards from the College of Engineering and Applied Science this year.
Fifteen undergraduate students were recognized in 2024 with Chemical and Biological Engineering Department awards.
Chemical and Biological Engineering students Claire Ely and Delaney McNally are among 438 U.S. college students awarded 2024 Goldwater Scholarships, which reward sophomores and juniors who are conducting research in math, science and engineering.
Five chemical and biological engineering graduate students and one ChBE undergraduate student have received 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a prestigious award that recognizes and supports outstanding students in a wide variety of science-related disciplines.
Since retiring in 2017 from CU Boulder’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Professor Dave Clough has collaborated on three textbooks. He’s also regularly involved with students, participating in PhD committees and undergraduate activities alike.
Professor Daniel K. Schwartz has been honored with the prestigious American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry 2024 Langmuir Lectureship award. Schwartz was nominated by his colleagues for significant contributions to the field of colloid and interface science.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health granted $39 million to a CU Boulder-led team, including Professor Stephanie J. Bryant of chemical and biological engineering, to pioneer a single-shot joint treatment that would stop cartilage and bone from erosion and promote regrowth.
Associate Professor Jerome Fox has been named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. Fox's research focuses on engineering microbes for drug discovery. He founded Think Bioscience, a company developing medicines for conditions like Rett Syndrome and cancer.
In a paper published in the journal Nature Energy, Professor Michael McGehee and his international collaborators unveiled an innovative method to manufacture new solar cells, known as perovskite cells, an achievement critical for the commercialization of the next generation of solar technology.
Kaustav Bera, a ChBE postdoctoral researcher, was awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. The fellowship will support Bera’s postdoctoral training in studying the body’s maintenance of the gut epithelium.