chemical and biomolecular engineering
![Atomospheric pressure pushes the metal into the channels.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/hands-free-patterning-liquid-metal.jpg)
Look ma, no hands: researchers use vacuum for hands-free patterning of liquid metal
![multi-cube assembly](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/mult-cube-assembly.png)
Microbot origami can capture, transport single cells
![Rich Spontak's “The Fingerprint of Molecules” won first place for faculty in the microscopy category.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Microscopy-HEADER-992x558.jpg)
Leaf hairs and molecules: Microscopy winners of the 2017 NC State Research Image Contest
![This image of a taxonomic network of bacterial diversity on bedbugs comes from Michael Fisher, who won first place for graduate students and postdocs in the graphics category.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Graphics-HEADER-992x558.jpg)
Bedbugs and Mars: Graphics winners of the 2017 NC State Research Image Contest
![Andy Wade's photo, “July 12, 2015,” won first place for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the photography category.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Photography-HEADER-992x558.jpg)
Beetles and lightning: Photography winners of the 2017 NC State Research Image Contest
![This topographic map of Mars, submitted by Paul Byrne, won first place for faculty in the graphics category.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Winner-HEADER-992x558.jpg)
From planetary to microscopic: Winners of the 2017 NC State Research Image Contest
![NC State bell tower in the spring](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/belltower-spring2017.jpg)
Westmoreland receives 2017 AIChE Institute Award
![NC State Belltower](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/belltower-1.jpg)
Velev receives professional progress award from AIChE
![New technique published in Advanced Materials shows the process of 3-D printing silicone rubber.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/3-D-techniques2017.jpg)