Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Jul 1, 2024

CBE’s Kelly elected as AIChE Fellow

Robert Kelly, the Alcoa Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been elected as an AIChE Fellow. Candidates are nominated by their peers with the primary criterion for election being significant professional accomplishment or service to the profession. In addition, the candidate must have significant chemical engineering experience, normally 25 years, and be a Senior Member of the society.

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Jun 21, 2024

Abolhasani to receive 2024 CRE Early Career Investigator Award

Milad Abolhasani has been named the recipient of AIChE’s 2024 Catalysis & Reaction Engineering Division Early Career Investigator Award, the Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos Award.

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Jun 21, 2024

Engineering faculty members among 2024-25 Fulbright Scholars

This year’s cohort will study methods to mitigate wildfires and educate the public about nuclear energy, among other academic and research pursuits around the world.

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Jun 20, 2024

Researchers create new class of materials called ‘glassy gels’

Glassy gels are extremely hard, but not brittle – they can stretch up to five times their original length.

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May 28, 2024

Wei, partners host meeting on volatile organic compounds sensors research

Qingshan Wei, associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University, is the principal investigator for a Phase I Convergence Accelerator Track L award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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May 22, 2024

COE announces Scholar of the Year award winners

The College of Engineering’s Office of Graduate Programs has announced five winners of the 2023-24 Scholar of the Year awards. All students were nominated by their respective departments for their outstanding scholarly achievements and dedication to NC State.

May 21, 2024

Grant named AAAS Fellow

Christine Grant, professor and inaugural associate dean for faculty advancement in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for 2024.

May 9, 2024

Engineering faculty members among those recognized for excellence

The Celebration of Faculty Excellence is held each spring to recognize outstanding faculty who have received prestigious state, national and international awards, accolades or other distinctions during this academic year. This year, NC State honored 41 faculty members during the 2024 Celebration of Faculty Excellence on April 30.

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Apr 30, 2024

Chemical engineering student wants to help her community by creating vaccines

Daisy Aguilar Aguilar always knew she wanted to help the people in her community, but the COVID-19 pandemic has changed her focus from broader chemical processes to research, where she can apply the principles of chemical engineering to create life-saving solutions.