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The thermostat may read 90 degrees Fahrenheit outside the sprawling federal research complex in Lakewood, Colorado, but inside, CU Boulder undergraduate student Casey Vanderheyden is donning a bulky winter coat, gloves and boots as though she is headed to the South Pole.
In a sense, she is. Vanderheyden is reaching the end of her six-week summer work stint at the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL), one of the country’s most prominent storage facilities for ice samples collected from around the world.
Alumnus Cole DeForest, who earned his PhD in our department in 2011, has been named one of AIChE’s “35 Under 35.” The award recognizes his contributions to the institute and the chemical engineering profession.An assistant professor at the
CU Boulder engineers have revamped a World War II-era process for making magnesium that requires half the energy and produces a fraction of the pollution compared to today’s leading methods.The breakthrough process, developed in the labs of
A multi-institutional team led by NREL, including new ChBE faculty member Aaron Holder (second from left), discovered a way to create new alloys that could form the basis of next-generation semiconductors. The NREL team includes (from left) Stephan
The CU Boulder Alumni Association has named Professor and Dean Emeritus Robert H. Davis a 2017 Robert L. Stearns Alumni Award winner.Davis joined the chemical engineering faculty in 1983 and served as dean of the College of Engineering and Applied
CU Boulder’s Research & Innovation Office has named Professor Chris Bowman as one of two 2017 Distinguished Research Lectureship honorees.Bowman was nominated by his peers and chosen unanimously by a faculty panel. He will receive a $2,000
Nearly 200 students earned degrees from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in a graduation ceremony May 12, 2017.The degree recipients included eight PhD candidates, eight master’s degree candidates and more than 160 bachelor’s
Chemical and biological engineering major and student-athlete Maddie DeWinter has been featured on the Pac-12 and Chevron’s #HumanEnergyStories.The video series highlights stories of student-athletes excelling on and off the field, with emphasis on
