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Nov 30, 2015
Professor Stefano Basagni Becomes ACM Distinguished Member
Associate ECE & affiliated BioE Professor Stefano Basagni has been named a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Nov 23, 2015
Ben Geilich and Thomas Webster give invited talk at IEEE Nanomed Conference
BioE PhD student Ben Geilich and ChE Professor & Chair Tom Webster gave an invited talk at the IEEE Nanomedicine conference on the use of polymersomes with silver to reduce antibiotic resistance bacteria functions.
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Nov 17, 2015
Organizing Microparticles
BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti was awarded a patent for "Microparticle organization".
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Nov 13, 2015
Benjamin Geilich Wins 1st Place Bionanotechnology Graduate Student Award at AIChE
Benjamin Geilich won first place in the Bionanotechnology Graduate Student Award competition at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City. His presentation was titled "Silver Nanoparticle-Embedded Polymersome Nanocarriers for the Treatment of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections." Geilich is a 4th year Bioengineering PhD student. A description of the award can be found here: http://www.aiche.org/community/sites/divisions-forums/nanoscale-science-engineering-forum/announcements/nsef-bionanotechnology-graduate-student-award-session-due-may-10th
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Nov 12, 2015
Marissa Puzan and Michelle Stolzoff Win Awards From Women’s Initiative Committee of AIChE
Congratulations to ChE PhD student Marissa Puzan and BioE PhD student Michelle Stolzoff, who both won travel awards from the Women's Initiative Committee of AIChE.
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Nov 12, 2015
Slavov Writes Feature Article in eLIFE
BioE Assistant Professor Nikolai Slavov wrote the feature article in eLIFE about "Making the most of peer review".
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Oct 23, 2015
A New Direction in Ribosomes
BioE Assistant Professor Nikolai Slavov has shown that cells build different ribosomes that likely not only assemble amino acids into proteins but also regulate protein production.
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Oct 21, 2015
COE & Science Freshman Night a Success
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) helped organize a Freshman Night for the College of Engineering and the College of Science with over 30 participating student groups.
Sep 24, 2015
2 PhD Students win WIC Travel Awards
Michelle Stolzoff (BioE PhD Student) and Marissa Puzan (ChemE PhD Student) won the Women’s Initiative Committee Travel Award to attend the annual AIChE Conference in Salt Lake City, Nov. 8 – 13.
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Sep 24, 2015
Research Fair a Big Success
The COE Undergraduate Research Lab fair gathered hundreds of students eager to learn about the research opportunities available to them.