Department News:
ChemE Car Team competing at Nationals this weekend
AIChE National Student Conference is being held in Minneapolis Oct 14-18th, and the CSU-CBE Cheme Car team will be competing in the National ChemE Car competition.
The CSU team of 11 engineering students has been planning and working on their car, named Murphy, for three semesters. The team’s car is constructed of a carbon-fiber composite material and milled aluminum and it runs off a hydrogen fuel cell. To be ready for the competition, the team, comprised of chemical and mechanical engineers, must not only design the car, but also test it, collecting data in advance to know how the car runs under different conditions.
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News from Dr. Reisfeld's group:
Dr. Mike Lyons, a Research Associate in Dr. Reisfeld's Research Group, was recently awarded a Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. This five year, $617,298.00 grant will support development of a project entitled "Optimal Drug Regimens for TB: An Integrated Computational/Experimental Approach". Dr. Anne Lenaerts (Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology), Dr. Raymond Yang (Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences), and Dr. Reisfeld will serve as principal mentor and co-mentors, respectively, on this grant.
Todd Zurlinden, a graduate student in Dr. Reisfeld's group, was recently awarded a Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Graduate Student Fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency. This prestigious award will allow Mr. Zurlinden to pursue research with Dr. Reisfeld in the area of "Environmental Public Health Indicators for Organophosphorus Insecticide Exposure".
Nick Fisk - Boettcher Investigator
On June 1st the Boettcher Foundation annouced that John D. (Nick) Fisk has been awarded one of
only five 2011 Boettcher Investigators as part of the Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program, which helps recruit, retain and advance scientific talent in Colorado. The honor comes with a three-year, $200,000 grant.
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Department Awards and Accolades:
Annual CBE Department Awards
May 11th, 2011
CBE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant - Todd Zurlinden (student nominated)
CBE Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant - Zeyu Sun (faculty nominated)
CBE Outstanding Professor - Dr. Travis Bailey (student nominated)
Congratulations to you all!
Engineering Days Awards:
April 15th 2011
Dr. Travis Bailey - E-Days Best Professor Award, student nominated award
E-Days Awards for Chemical and Biological Engineering:
First Place: Lab-On-A-Chip Diagnostic Biosensor
Second Place: Production of 1,3 Propanediol from Glycerol using genetically engineered E. Coli
Third Place: Algae to Ethanol via Enzymatic Hydrolysis
AIChE Regional Student Conference
April 16th, 2011
The ChemE Car team took 1st place in the ChemE Car competition with the newly designed car "Murphy". They will be heading to the AIChE National Student Conference in November to compete against teams from all over the country.
National Society of Leadership
and Success Awards:
April 20th, 2011
Dr. Matt Kipper won the Excellence in Teaching award from the student organization National Society of Leadership and Success at the awards ceremony on April 20th, 2011.
2011 CURC Awards Ceremony:
April 21st, 2011
Tyler Cote, a junior CBE undergraduate student won the College of Engineering
(COE) Honors award for his poster: "High Density Plasma Simulator for Applications
in High EnergyPlasma Physics and Plasma
Processing.”
Tyler also won a
University High Honors award for the poster "High Efficiency Thermoelectric Coolers for use
in Firefighter
Applications.”
Elie Schuchardt, a junior in CBE won COE High Honors for her poster: "Rheological Characterization of Hydrogel Carboplatin Delivery Vehicle."
NSF Sponsored Workshop Sept 13-17th
Professor David Wang is co-organizer of a NSF-sponsored workshop on Mathmatical Modeling and Computer Simulations in Soft Materials. The workshop will take place September 13-17, 2010 at Colorado State University. Additional information can be found at the workshop's website
Fluorescent Light to ID Contaminants
Professor Ken Reardon, working in tandem with Cenergy, the university’s vehicle for commercializing innovative clean and renewable technologies, has created OptiEnz Sensors LLC to develop, manufacture and sell the biosensors, which rely on fluorescent light to identify contaminants.
"With these devices, contaminants such as melamine, gasoline, solvents and nerve agents can be measured without pretreating the sample with other chemicals" Reardon said.
7/8/2010: New story regarding this research featured in the Coloradoan and on 9News.com click here
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Upcoming Events
Department Seminars
All Seminars are noon - 1pm in Glover 201 unless otherwise noted**
Friday March 2nd, 2012
Jianjung Chen
Development of Anticancer Nanomedicine
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
*Joint seminar with Chemistry
Friday March 9th, 2012
Arthur Mayeno
Colorado State University, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Friday March 23rd, 2012
Meredith Betterton
University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Physics
Friday March 30th
John Yin
University of Wisconsin, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Email: cbe@engr.colostate.edu