Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering News Archives

Spring Semester 2013

• Clark School Celebrates Students, Honors Alumni and Faculty at Spring 2013 Commencement
• 36 Clark School Students Accepted into NIST Summer Research Program
• Clark School Freshmen Compete in Hovercraft Competition
• Company Founded in Clark School Awarded $500K to Test Hemorrhage-Halting Foam
• Solar Team Distills Most and Purest Water at International Competition
• Gibbons Takes Second at GRID Session for Presentation on Solar Thermal Cycling
• Dean Pines' Op-Ed in Baltimore Sun Stresses Need for Prizes, Competitions to Spur Innovation
• ChBE Undergrads Win Prestigious Industrial Internships from SCI Program
• Chem-E Car Team Heads to National Competition Once Again!
• 2012-2013 ChBE Undergraduate Awards
• Wachsman Talks Fuel Cells on "Ceramic Tech Today" (VIDEO)
• Anisimov Elected to Russian Academies of Engineering and Natural Sciences
• UMD Students Visit Congress to Raise Visibility for Science, Engineering and Technology
• Earth Day 2013 Event to Address the Energy and Water Nexus
• Clark School Hosts 2013 STEM Expo on April 6
• New Study Shows University of Maryland Grads Among Highest Paid in U.S.
• Whiting-Turner Lecture Series Features Entrepreneurs Ostrow on April 11, Citrin on April 25
• Clark School Highly Ranked in 2014 U.S. News and World Report's Best Graduate Schools
• ChBE Announces Teaching Assistant Awards
• Clark School Students Show Kids How to Get "Juice from Juice"
• Boren Language Scholar Pursues Research, Cultural Studies in Korea
• Where Chemical Engineering and Green Thumbs Meet
• National Instruments LabVIEW Tour Coming to University of Maryland
• New Nanocomposite Anodes Speed Battery Charging
• International Association Adopts Guideline Authored by ChBE Alumna, Faculty

Fall Semester 2012

• Sengers Honored
• Donation to Name Kim Building Lecture Hall
• Great Expectations Campaign Reaches $1B Goal
• Choi Appointed to Korean Global R&D Advisory Committee
• Alumnus Thomas Hicks to Serve as Commencement Speaker
• Wachsman Wins Fuel Cell Seminar & Energy Exposition Award
• UMD, Lockheed Martin Sign Master Research Agreement
• Wu Wins Catalysis Club Poster Award
• Chem-E Car at AIChE
• In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus James Gentry
• Wachsman Elected Fellow
• Anisimov Group Seeks Critical Point of Supercooled Water
• Wachsman Pioneers Transformational Energy Technology
• The Gel with the Secret Center
• Energy Harvesting Colloquium to be held on campus
• Dominion Resources Supports Lab Upgrade
• Choi, Burka to Represent U.S. in World Congress of Chemical Engineering
• Clark School Undergrad Program 23rd in Nation
• Fisher Wins Electrochemical Society Travel Award
• Fisher, Lidie Win Electrochemical Society Student Chapter Poster Contest
• Clark School Wins Major Research Instrumentation Awards
• Wachsman Tapped for Grid Reliability Panel
• All-In-One: $300K for Development of Interface-Free Battery
• Official Publication: New International Formulation for the Thermal Conductivity of H₂O
• Klauda Earns NSF CAREER Award
• Karlsson Joins ChBE Faculty
• Clark School #14 in World Research Ranking
• Washington, D.C., Among Best Technology Start-Up Towns
• Accreditation Renewed for All Clark School Departments
• Less Precious: Big Copper Particles Could Make Your Electronics Cheaper
• ALD work of Adomaitis, Dwivedi featured in NASA Goddard newsletter

Spring Semester 2012

• Maryland Hosts Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop
• Rueger Wins Mixing Forum Award
• Liu Wins ACS Petroleum Fund Grant
• Canvas to Replace Blackboard
• Maryland is No. 1 for Entrepreneurship, Innovation
• Choi Elected to Executive Committee of U.S./Korea Center
• Patents, Commercialization to Count Toward Tenure
• University of Maryland Wins 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest
• Raghavan Promoted
• Chunsheng Wang Promoted
• Wachsman Receives Outstanding Achievement Award
• "Nebuchadnezzar" Takes Autonomous Hovercraft Honors
• Smile! Clark School Commencement to Stream Live
• Wiest Wins Prestigious Boren Language Scholarship
• Anisimov Celebrated at International Symposium
• Lyles to Speak at Commencement
• Past AIChE President Joins ChBE, ISR as Visiting Professor
• Gibbons Takes Second at GRID Session for Presentation on New Catalyst for Solar Thermal Cycles
• SafeLiCell Takes 2nd in $100K ACC Clean Energy Challenge
• ChBE Graduate Research Awards Announced
• Energy Team Turns in Strong Performance at $75K Business Plan Competition
• Clark School Earns Impact Award for Work with Minorities
• Battery Team Heading for $100K ACC Clean Energy Challenge Finals
• How Hot is Solar Energy?
• Hollinshead Wins Outstanding ASPIRE Student Research Award
• 2011-2012 ChBE Undergraduate Awards
• Subramanian Wins GRID Session for Talk on Colloidal Systems
• Pendse Wins Travel Award
• "Team Thirsty Turtles" Wins Spot in National Chem-E-Car Competition
• ResearchFest 2012
• ChBE Undergrads Win 5 of 29 Prestigious Industrial Internships
• New Barrier Gel Will Improve Analysis of Blood Samples
• Engineers Advised: Stay With It
• Clark School Graduate Program Ranks 18th Nationally
• Whiting-Turner Lectures Kick Off Thursday
• Engineering Algae to Produce Biofuel
• Award Funds Development of Catalyst for Renewable Fuel Production
• Which Clark School Major is Best?
• Adomaitis: Shining Star Honorable Mention
• Federal Region Is Nation's Most "Tech-centric"
• Subramanian Wins Gordon Research Conference Travel Award
• Fisher Paper Among Top 25 "Hottest Articles"
• Students Construct Water System for Burkina Faso Health Clinic
• Sengers Chairs Task Force for New International Formulation of Thermal Conductivity of Water and Steam
• Tuned Synthesis of Novel Polymer Gives Alkaline Fuel Cells New Potential
• Small Fire in J. M. Patterson Injures No One
• Women in Engineering Opportunity Scholarship Created
• Gupta, Simons Win Inaugural Undergraduate Research Awards
• Lopresti Honored at Commencement
• UM a Top Academic Value According to Kiplinger's

Fall Semester 2011

• Sengers Honored at Burgers Symposium
• ACC $100K Clean Energy Challenge Open for Business (Ideas)
• ChBE Alumni Recreate Toys That Inspired Them
• Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Research Sparks Media Coverage
• Tether to Speak at Commencement
• New Technique Turns Alginate Solution Into Micron-Scale Gel Patterns Using Light
• Want Fuel Cells? Think Outside the Hydrogen Tank
• Subramanian Wins Best Poster Award at Water Conference
• Raghavan, DeVoe Introduce New Micromanufacturing Approach in Small
• Conway Wins Poster Award for Work on Carbon Traffic in Yeast
• Profesor Emeritus Thomas McAvoy receives US Patent 8,042,209
• Conway Shares Engineers Without Borders Experience at Conference
• Adomaitis Elected AIChE Fellow
• Raghavan Selected for Engineering Education Symposium
• University of Maryland Wins 2011 Solar Decathlon
• DoE Selects UMD as One of Six Lead Universities For National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition
• Energy Center Celebrates Grand Opening
• UMD Ranked Among Nation's Best in Entrepreneurship Education
• Clark School Launches Men's Living-Learning Program
• Chem-E Car Sponsor Hosts Team Visit
• Sriram Named Keystone Professor
• Blood-Clotting "Nano-Velcro" Featured in C&EN
• Fight Bacteria With Bacteria
• Cecil College Scholarship Established in Alumnus' Memory
• Engineers Compete on "America's Got Talent"
• Clark School Rises in International Ranking
• Au Presents Plenary Talk at NIST SURF Colloquium
• Clark School Students Assist STEM Program
• Subramanian Wins International Thermodynamic Poster Award

Spring Semester 2011

• Liu Joins ChBE Faculty
• Chou Wins Travel Grants
• Sriram Honored as Outstanding Engineer of the Year
• Engineers Without Borders Project Wins Grants
• Alumnus' Work on Artificial Intestine Featured in L.A. Times
• Team Thirsty Turtles Wins Chem-E Car Regional Championship
• Clark School ENGAGED Faculty Announced
• Villanueva Presents at ACC Conference
• Sriram Group Member Wins Library Award
• Conway Wins HHMI Fellowship
• Conway, Ehrman, Guo and Wachsman Present at Sustainability Workshop
• Greer, Sengers Honored for Outstanding Commitment
• 2010-2011 ChBE Undergraduate Awards
• Breger, Pendse Win at GRID
• Gupta Wins Goldwater Scholarship
• Earth Day Event to Focus on Energy
• Gordon Wins Physics Teaching Award
• Anisimov Elected to Cosmos Club
• Pines Elected to Engineering Deans Council Board
• P²OWDER Lab's Green Efforts Profiled in the Diamondback
• Subramanian Wins Travel Awards
• Improving Greenhouse Crop Production Through Systems Biology
• UM $75K Business Plan Competition Opens
• Gov. O'Malley Taps Wachsman for Clean Energy Board
• UM Rises Again Among Best Values

Fall Semester 2010

• ChBE Alumna Encourages Clark School Grads to Set Sail
• Raghavan Wins Clark School Faculty Teaching Award
• Bad Virus Put to Good Use: Breakthrough Batteries
• Sr. VP of Bechtel Power to Talk About Engineers in Renewable Energy
• Sengers Edits New Book on Thermodynamics of Fluids
• Pendse and Klauda’s Protein Research on Cover of Journal of Molecular Biology
• Dimitrakopoulos, Dodson Publish Novel Modeling for Red Blood Cells in Complex Flow Systems
• ChBE Senior Named Merrill Presidential Scholar
• Changing the Odds
• Producing New Innovations and Innovators
• Calabrese Expands AIChE Leadership Roles
• An Exceptional Year for Clark School Rankings
• Undergraduate Lin Presents at ASPB Conference
• A Longer Life for Lithium Ion Batteries
• Clark School 3rd Nationwide in Recruiter Survey
• New Battery Research Highlighted by Discovery News, Nanowerk
• InnoWorks Makes Science Fun for Kids
• $1.9M NSF Grant Enables Enhanced Study of Biomolecular Structures
• Calabrese Spends Sabbatical with DOE, Nuclear Waste Consortium
• Clark School Enters U.S. News Top 20
• Clark School Ranked 13th Worldwide

Spring Semester 2010

• Raghavan Group Aids Development of Non-Toxic Oil Recovery Agent
• Hong, Collaborators Create Liposome-Hydrogel Hybrids for Drug Delivery
• Walker Wins Mixing Forum Student Award
• Ehrman Appointed Chair of ChBE
• Goldberg, Thomas Win SBEC Paper Awards
• Alumnus Wins World Nuclear University Fellowship
• Clark School Receives $1M Gift
• UM, LM Launch Strategic Relationship
• Mtech, Alumna-Run Companies Vie for State Awards
• Ehrman Elevated to Full Professorship
• Ehrman Featured in Fox5 Hovercraft Segment
• First Measurement Science Fellowship Positions Announced
• Emdadi Takes 3rd In Dean's Thesis Competition
• Poplar Tree Biofuel Project: Front Page News!
• 2009-2010 ChBE Undergraduate Awards
• Lin Named UMD Undergraduate Researcher of the Year
• Biofuel Technologies Featured on CBS News
• ExxonMobil Donates to Engineering Societies
• A Tree in Your Tank?
• UM Progresses in Solar Decathlon 2011 Competition
• Pendse, Emdadi Take 2nd and 3rd Place at ResearchFest 2010
• Gupta Wins HHMI Fellowship
• Alumna Wins NSF-CAREER Award
• UM Rises Again Among Best Values

Fall Semester 2009

• UMD System Redirects Its Energy
• Study ChBE in London This Summer!
• Washington Post Cites Alumnus for Accomplishments at DOE
• Clark School Ranked 14th Worldwide
• Educating the World's Kids One Laptop at a Time
• Making Your Water Bottle Safer
• Pines Testifies Before Congressional Committee
• Dowling Named A Maryland Innovator of the Year
• Anisimov Spends Sabbatical at Petroleum Institute
• Alumnus Named U.S. Commissioner of Patents
• Clark School Research Dollars Soar
• Unit Ops Lab Featured on Capital Campaign Site
• Mtech to Establish Living-Learning Entrepreneurship Program for Academically Talented Freshman and Sophomore Students
• Attend "Financing Renewable Energy" Sept. 22
• Clark School Meets Hollywood
• Nickolas B. Pippen, 26

Spring Semester 2009

• Engineering Grads On Top
• C. Wang Wins NSF Grant for Battery Research
• C. Wang Part of Winning Nanobiotech Grant Team
• Gonzales, Subramanian Win Department Research Awards
• Fisher Attends Ionic Liquids Conference
• Clark School to Offer New Graduate Certificate for Technology Entrepreneurs
• Clark School Names First UMERC Director
• Thomas McAvoy helping to advance cancer research
• Behrens Part of Winning Business Plan Competition Team
• Radio Show to Feature WIE
• Staff Honored for Clark School/UM Service
• UMERC/Nanocenter Team Named "Energy Frontier" Center
• Ehrman Presents at Sustainability Workshop
• Ramos Takes 2nd in Video Competition
• Adomaitis Elevated to Full Professor
• Dimitrakopoulos Wins NBIB/NIH Grant for Study on Disease States of Red Blood Cells
• 2008-2009 ChBE Undergraduate Awards
• Clark School Retains High U.S. News Rankings
• LEAFHouse Reaps More Honors
• Severinsky to Speak at Commencement
• Alumna Named 2009 Fischell Fellow
• Clark School Tops in NIST Fellowships
• Scholarship Established to Support Active Servicemen, Veterans, Families
• "Nano-Velcro" Wins Outstanding Invention of the Year
• Lin Wins ASPB SURF Fellowship
• Behrens Wins Outstanding ASPIRE Student Research Award
• BES Chapter Nationally Recognized
• ChBE Alumni Duong, Park Win Association Awards
• Alumnus Wins ASTM Award
• ResearchFest 2009 Winners Announced
• Virtual Computer Lab Now Online
• Alumna's Pigs Fly Off Shelves
• Alumnus Completes 1,588-Mile Bike Ride
• Fisher Named John and Maureen Hendricks Energy Research Fellow
• Lowe Bequest Funds Lab Innovations
• Murray Bequest Supports ChBE
• Raghavan Awarded Sung Professorship

Fall Semester 2008

• Yechun Wang Appointed to North Dakota State Faculty
• Energy Engineering Student Chapter Forms
• Meet Dean Darryll Pines
• Blood-Clotting Invention Featured on CBS News
• View University Holiday Greeting Online
• England to Speak at Commencement
• Dimitrakopoulos' Capsule Dynamics Research Featured in Physical Review Letters
• Lim Wins Best Poster Award
• Raghavan, Dowling's "Nano-Velcro" Wins at Bioscience Day
• EWB's Mid-Atlantic Conference Trains, Celebrates
• Alumnus Becomes Vice President at URI
• Great Expectations: Spotlight on Giving
• Clark School Honors Hybrid Engine Inventor
• Alumnus To Speak on Lean Dynamics
• UM Rises Among Best Values
• Students Visit Walter Reed
• Sengers to Receive Distinguished International Service Award
• President's Fall Video Message Available
• Darryll Pines Named Dean of the Clark School
• Sengers to Compile, Edit Forthcoming Book
• Gordon England Gives Whiting-Turner Lecture
• Akcora Joins Missouri Faculty
• New Series Emphasizes Engineering Education
• M.Eng. in Sustainable Energy Engineering First in U.S.
• Student Named Chair of a VT Advisory Board
• Fuentevilla Receives Best Paper Award
• Anisimov, Sengers, Fuentevilla and St. Pierre at ICPWS
• Renewal of Funding for Ghosh, Battery Research
• ChBE Alumnus Appointed to National Taiwan University Faculty
• Breger Takes Diabetes Technology Bronze
• Honor for Hybrid Power System Inventor
• UM a Leader in Black Ph.D.'s
• Bentley, Hung, Culver Gene Therapy Research Covered By Wired
• Greer Wins Kirwan Undergraduate Education Award
• Great Expectations: Spotlight on Giving
• Alumnus Gives Back to Award He Received
• Clark School Rises in Rankings

Spring Semester 2008

• Girl Scout Engineering Program Honored
• Nuclear Program Alumnus Takes Sr. Position at Thorium Power
• Ehrman Named Associate Chair, Graduate Program Director
• Sengers Delivers Plenary Lecture
• Scholarship Supports Gemstone Students
• ChBE Student Wins University Medal
• Greer Wins Poole and Kent Teaching Award for Senior Faculty
• Clark School Holds 2008 Commencement
• Greer Named Provost, Dean of Faculty of Mills College
• WJZ Covers New Chitosan Blood Clotting Product
• Gordon Named Distinguished Teaching Assistant
• Lu, Wang Take 2nd Place in Business Plan Competition
• UM, UET Peshawar Forge Partnership
• Dimitrakopoulos Promoted
• Choi, Lee Groups: Breakthroughs in Nanofibers
• NIST Hires Record Clark School Contingent
• Alumnus March Awarded Hartwell Foundation Grant
• ChBE Shines at Maryland Day
• Lockheed CTO to Address Graduates
• Palathra, de Pilar Leon to Gain International Research Experience
• Adomaitis on EuroCVD-17 international organizing committee
• Engineering Videos Win in Vid/Terp Competition
• Scholl Family Supports Engineers Without Borders
• Lu Finalist in Annual $50K Business Plan Competition
• Service Plan Leader Schaufeld Offers "Plan B"
• Brody Shares Entrepreneurial "Recipe"
• New Bioengineering Wing Unveiled
• Order of the Engineer Deadline Approaching
• You're Invited: Fischell Festival April 10-11
• Clark School Maintains High Rankings
• Wang Hosts Army Research Office Workshop
• Gift Benefits Energy Research Center
• The Inaugural WIE DREAM Conference a Success!
• Experts Discuss Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency
• Keystone Program Featured in ASEE Prism Magazine
• Alumna, CEO Brings "Second Time Startup" to UMBC Incubator Program
• Alumnus Bhat Named VP of IP Test Systems Company
• Choi Takes 4th in SAMSUNG Competition
• Gordon Selected for Future Faculty Program
• Alumnus Becomes Faculty at Tianjin University
• Alumna Freeman is New Marketing Officer for TBS
• Alumni Excel in Academia, Research
• Greer Receives NSF Funding for Ethics Courses
• Alumnus Named President of Wireless Company
• Scholl to Graduates: "Think Big"

Fall Semester 2007

• ChBE Alumna Profiled in Newsweek
• Special Panel Discusses Future of Oil, Nuclear Energy
• Scholl to Address December Grads
• The Leaders We Need In Engineering Seminar Now Online
• Times Higher Ranks UM Highly
• Calabrese Group Featured in CEP High-Shear Mixing Story
• Johnson Stresses Corporate-University Partnership
• ANSSC Brings Energy Experts to Campus
• Next Whiting-Turner Lecture on Thursday
• Additional $1.8M for Cancer Treatment Project
• Minor in Engineering Leadership Established
• UM's LEAFHouse Takes 2nd
• UM Will Host NanoBio Defense Workshop
• James P. Byers, B.S. '84
• Experts Explore Environmental Engineering
• Farvardin Professorship Fund Reaches $500K
• Anisimov Group Makes Its Mark
• Nuclear Program Lecturer Passes Away
• Senior NSF Advisor in Nanotechnology to Speak in College Park
• Sengers Tours Europe as Invited Lecturer, Visiting Professor
• Dimitrakopoulos Wins 2 NSF Grants
• Marine Dredging Pioneer to be Honored
• Experts to Discuss Protecting Marine Environments
• ChBE Welcomes 3 New Faculty
• Ghosh Wins Wells Fellowship
• Davis Organizes International Conference on Calixarene Chemistry

Spring Semester 2007

• BGE Gift to Support LEAFHouse
• Rabin Named Interim Clark School Dean
• AIChE Picks Top Profs
• Engineers Sweep Movie Contest
• Grads May Have the Next YouTube
• NanoCenter Highly Ranked
• Clark School Grads May Have the Next YouTube
• Fond Farewell to Graduates
• Wang Wins Faculty Service Award
• Anisimov Wins Clark School Faculty Teaching Award
• STS Program Has New Director
• Department Recognizes Exceptional Undergraduates
• Farvardin Named University of Maryland Provost
• Clark School Donors Exceed $100M Milestone
• "Virus Sponge" Could Improve Flu Treatments
• Tell Us What You Really Think
• UM $50K Business Plan Competition Winners Announced
• Clark School Earns Another High Ranking
• ResearchFest 2006-2007
• Bentley Discusses Nanofactories on WTOP, Federal News Radio
• ChBE Undergraduates Honored
• Medtronic CEO to Speak
• You're Invited: May 3 Fischell Festival
• Dean Pens ASEE Prism Column
• Clark School Highly Ranked
• ChBE Student Is Finalist in MTECH Competition
• "Smart" Fluid Controlled with Light
• Clark School Ranked 13th Worldwide
• Kidwell Gift Benefits Scholarships, Campaign
• "Side Effects May Not Include…"
• Clark School Selected for UniStar Scholarships
• Faculty Promotions Announced
• Leonsis Leads Off Whiting-Turner Lectures
• Nanomedicine Research Day 2007
• Women In Engineering Program Forms Board
• Three New Keystone Professors Selected
• Alumnus Joins Board of Dallas Design Firm
• Around the World with Jan Sengers
• UM Competes To See Who's Greenest
• Undergrad Research Video Competition Opens
• In Memoriam: Dr. Dick Duffey
• WIE to Establish Living-Learning Program
• Gordon Attends International Winter School
• Sungs Establish Two ChBE Professorships
• Castellanos, Gonzales Selected for Future Faculty Program
• Wang, Alumnus Publish Work on Enzyme-Immobilization
• Alumnus Publishes Work On Artificial Organs
• Ehrman Receives Faculty Award

Fall Semester 2006

• Commencement Speakers Cite Change and Values
• Board of Visitors' Gooden Made Exec VP
• ChBE Student Presents at IPST, Publishes in Top Journal
• DEVELOP, LAUNCH, AND WIN through the $50K Business Plan Competition
• ASEE Prism Profiles Pres. Mote
• Choi Receives Professional Honor
• Winter Commencement Speaker Announced
• Student Wins AIChE Best Poster Award
• Jones Whiting-Turner Lecture Now Online
• Digene, Cisco Leaders to Speak
• McAvoy Team Awarded NIH Grant
• Sengers Co-Authors Book on Hydrodynamic Fluctuations
• TBP Chapter Ranked Nation's Most Outstanding
• Hungry? KimKafe Now Open!
• Kim Building Garners Award for Clark
• 2006 Fall Career Fair to Feature Engineering Employers
• Innovative Telecom Alumnus to be Honored
• Renowned Telecom Experts to Deliver White Symposium
• UM Among Kiplinger's "Best Values"
• FDA Acting Commissioner Visits Bioengineering
• NSF Funds Microscopy Facility Upgrades
• Fischell Addresses Freshman in "Dialogue"
• $1 Million For Nano-Bio Initiative
• Alumnus Charles Miller Appointed to New NRC Office
• Department Mourns Passing of Alumna

Spring Semester 2006

• Crab Nano-Sensor Detects Dangerous Substances
• NIST and NanoCenter Announce Partnership
• Polymer Symposium Showcases Student Research
• State Approves $3.65 Million for NanoCenter
• McAvoy elected Fellow of IFAC
• Ehrman Wins Fulbright Award
• Gooden to Address May Graduates
• Schork to Chair CHBE Department
• Joseph's Whiting-Turner Lecture Available Online
• No More Broken Antennas
• Clark School Researchers Are Top Inventors
• Maryland Day 2006—Explore Our World!
• Professor Kofinas Awarded Grant from the Air Force
• $50K Business Plan Competition Semifinalists Announced
• ChBE Alumnus Now Faculty at the University of Seoul
• Anisimov Receives Foundation for Science and Technology Award
• $50K Business Plan Competition: Enter Now!
• Clark School Sends Students to Aid Katrina Victims
• Adomaitis invited to present lecture series
• Kofinas selected as Keystone Professor
• Anisimov to Organize Ppecial Sessions

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