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NEWS

4/7/12 - We welcome two new faculty, Melissa Krebs and Jason Ganley to the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department!

4/2/12 - Working with Prof. Sum, undergraduate Riya Muckom has won 1st place in the oral paper competition at the AIChE Regional Student Conference!

12/14/11 - Prof. Neeves' work on microfluidic models of porous media is featured on the cover of the latest Lab on a Chip.

11/1/11 - The Department has an opening for a new Teaching Associate Professor/Lab Coordinator. For those interested in joining this dynamic department, information can be found online here.

10/11/11 - New Departmental brochure available online (6 MB pdf)!

10/10/11 - Prof. Liberatore has been invited to attend the highly-selective Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium established by the National Academy of Engineering.

9/28/11 - Prof. Dorgan's work on next-generation biopolymers is featured on the cover of the latest MRS bulletin.

8/22/11 - Prof. Gardner gives this year's freshman convocation address to great acclaim! The full transcript (spoken to the tune of the Cat in the Hat) is available here.

8/11/11 - Congratulations to Prof. Sloan for receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 7th International Conference on Gas Hydrates! He received this award "in recognition of his many contribtions to gas hydrate research and for authoring the definitive reference text".

7/20/11 - Congratulations to Prof. Agarwal for receiving the Paul H. Holloway Young Investigator Award from the American Vacuum Society! He received this award for his contributions to the fundamental understanding of surface reactions in atomic layer deposition of thin films.

5/13/11 - Congratulations to both Prof. Bunge and Prof. Sloan for being awarded the George R. Brown medal at this year's commencement. This highly distinguished and rarely conferred honor recognizes distinguished service in engineering education at CSM.

4/28/11 - Congratulations to Prof. Way for winning the Dean's Excellence Award, Prof. Liberatore for winning the Jenni Fellowship, Prof. Miller for winning the Alumni Teaching Award, Prof. Herring for winning the young faculty Research Excellence Award, and Prof. Gardner for winning the Outstanding Faculty Member in Chemical Engineering Award this year!

4/22/11 - Congratulations to graduate student Kevin Roth for winning the CSM graduate research fair with his presentation entitled "Optical Alignment Deformation Spectroscopy for Measuring the Deformability of Human Erythrocytes". Congratulations also to Greg Schlichting, Bebe Onasoga, Daniel Harrison, and Eric Kosovich for winning in the various poster competitions!

2/19/11 - Prof. Miller will receive an award for Lifetime Achievement in Chemical Engineering Pedagogical Scholarship from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) at their annual conference in Vancouver, BC.

12/17/10 - As the CSM Faculty Senate Distinguished Lecturer this year, Prof. Bunge carries the University Mace at Midyear Commencement, with Governor Bill Ritter (left) and University President Bill Scoggins (right).

12/06/10 - Prof. Way has been awarded a Distinguished Visiting Scientist Fellowship from the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, the national energy research laboratory in Australia.

8/31/10 - We are sad to announce the passing of Bernard Coady, a former graduate and long-time supporter of the Chemical Engineering Department. Decades of students have come to know Bernie for the "Coady lab", our computer-based teaching facility, created due to his generosity and named in his honor.

7/27/10 - Prof. Way along with Prof. Lusk in Physics and Profs. Parker and Braun in Engineering receive a Phase I grant of $500k from the DOE to create pilot-scale membrane modules for hydrogen separation from syngas.

7/20/10 - Profs. Herring and Liberatore have received a multi-million dollar grant from the DOD's MURI program for the study of transport through organic membranes.

7/20/10 - Prof. Dean has received a $700k grant from the Office of Naval Research MURI program for the study of alternate fuels for biocorrosion.

7/2/10 - Ryan Hansen from the Neeves group was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship
from the Pacific Mountain Affiliate of the American Heart Association.

6/30/10 - Governor Bill Ritter announces a Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research grant for Prof. Neeves and his studies of blood coagulation in microfluidic devices.

6/1/10 - We are extremely pleased to welcome Profs. Mark Maupin and Ning Wu to the Chemical Engineering Department. Mark joins us from the University of Utah and will focus on biofuels. Ning joins us from Harvard University and brings an expertise in complex fluid control for novel materials assembly.

5/20/10 - Profs. Koh and Sum featured in a Guardian UK article concerning the role methane hydrates may have played in the recent Gulf deepwater drilling explosion.

4/15/10 - Mines magazine publishes an article on the recent Science manuscript published by Ph.D. candidate Matt Walsh with Profs. Koh, Sloan, Sum, and Wu.

1/26/10 - Congratulations to Chemical Engineering undergraduate 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 and Biological ENGINEERING

Effective Summer 2011 we are now the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, a name change that reflects our evolving curriculum, the size of our program, and our expanding areas of expertise. At the undergraduate level, we offer two ABET accredited degrees, one in Chemical Engineering and the other in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and each with approximately half of the Department's > 500 undergraduate students. In addition, we manage the Bioengineering and Life Sciences (BELS) program in which undergraduates across the CSM campus can obtain a minor or area of special interest.

For an online version of our Departmental brochure please click here (6MB pdf)

From its inception at the Colorado School of Mines in 1952, the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department has focused on education and basic and applied research aimed at problems of national interest. We maintain a high-quality, well-funded research program (> $8 million in research awards in 2010) with strong participation from students at both the graduate and undergraduate level. In this, ~80 graduate and postdoctoral students study within a broad research menu, including major programs in hydrates & energy, soft materials, biomedical research, thin-film materials, simulation and modeling, and pedagogy. 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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