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1/26/10 - Congratulations to Chemical Engineering graduate Michelle Roark for making the US Olympic Freestyle team to compete at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics!

1/14/10 - Prof. Dean's group is a partner in a $33.8M DOE biofuels research program to develop refinery-compatible biomass-based feedstocks; the group will focus on a theoretical analysis of the chemical reactions that occur during the conversion process as well as reactor design.

12/3/09 - Prof. Neeves has been awarded a 4-year $300k grant from the American Heart Association titled "The Role of Thrombin Flux on Fibrin Deposition and Clot Stability under Flow".

11/24/09 - Working with Prof. Agarwal, PhD student Vikrant R. Rai won the Poster Award for the Materials Engineering and Science Division at the 2009 AIChE Annual Meeting for his presentation titled "Surface Reaction Mechanisms during Atomic Layer Deposition of Titanium Dioxide."

10/8/09 - Ph.D. candidate Matt Walsh and Profs. Koh, Sloan, Sum, and Wu have published a manuscript entitled "Microsecond Simulations of Spontaneous Methane Hydrate Nucleation and Growth" in Science magazine.

9/25/09 - Profs. Way and Wolden have been awarded a 3-year, $1.2 million grant from the DOE to develop nanoporous, transition metal carbide membranes for cost-effective hydrogen separation with CO2 capture.

9/22/09 - Prof. Neeves, in collaboration with Jorge Di Paola, MD at UC-Denver, has been awarded an NIH Challenge Grant titled "Use of Microfluidics in Determining Hemostatic Phenotypes" for $1 million.

9/11/09 - Ph.D. candidate Pieter Rowlette was selected as the winner of the American Vacuum Society's 2009 Thin Film Division Graduate Student Award. Pieter will receive a $500 award and a plaque at a dinner in conjunction with the AVS 56th International Symposium this November in San Jose, CA.

8/18/09 - Prof. Marr receives a $1.3 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIH) to develop optical-trapping based instrumentation for cell mechanical property measurement.

7/30/09 - Prof. Agarwal receives a prestigious NSF Faculty Early Career Development award entitled "Molecular Perspectives of Gas-Surface Reactions during Growth of Thin Film Nanostructures". This award will support research in the thematic area of gas-surface dynamics critical to nanoscale control of thin-film growth.

 

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

From its inception at the Colorado School of Mines in 1952, the Chemical Engineering Department has focused on education and basic and applied research aimed at problems of national interest. At CSM, we maintain a high quality, well-funded research program with strong participation from students at both the graduate and undergraduate level. The Departmental research menu is quite broad, and includes major programs in materials, separations, thermodynamics, combustion, transport, and computer-aided simulation and molecular modeling. Two major national laboratories are close by leading to strong departmental affiliations. These include:

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Golden, CO
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder, CO

These research and educational activities take place in one of the most scenic locations in the United States. With over 300 days per year of sunshine and the proximity to Denver and the Rocky Mountains, this area provides a combination of year-round cultural, recreational, and entertainment opportunities that are virtually unmatched anywhere.

From C&E News, November 23, 2009

 

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