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Professor Arup Chakraborty’s HIV work is one of Boston’s biggest medical breakthroughs for 2011 - December 15 |
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MIT student newspaper “The Tech” interviews Institute Professor Robert Langer - December 13 |
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Professor emeritus Adel Sarofim SM ’57, ScD ’62 dies at 74 - December 4 |
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Institute Professor Bob Langer wins the 2011 The Economist annual Innovation Award in Bioscience - December 3 |
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Harold Somers Mickley, alumnus and former chair of the MIT faculty, dies at 93 - December 3 |
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| November |
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Course X senior Maggie Lloyd discusses Integrated Chemical Engineering (ICE) - November 23 |
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Professor Dane Wittrup has been elected Fellow of the AAAS - November 22 |
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Greg Stephanopoulos lab shows how cancer cells get by on a starvation diet. November 21 |
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Anderson lab creates a novel surface triples stem-cell growth in culture - November 7 |
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"Tinkering on the Atomic Scale", Michael Strano's research include new approaches to solar energy, novel water purification systems, and a tattoo that could change how diabetics monitor the disease - November 7 |
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| October |
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The Chemical Engineering Department hosts the DOW-MIT ACCESS Program
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Professor Chris Love’s T cell monitoring technique could help AIDS vaccine development - October 14 |
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Profs Anderson and Langer use RNA to curb inflammatory cells - October 9 |
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Professor Greg Stephanopoulos wins the inaugural Biotechnology Progress Award for Excellence in Biological Engineering Publication, to be presented at the annual AIChE Meeting - October 5 |
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Professor Richard Braatz receives 2011 IEEE Control Systems Society Transition to Practice Award - October 5 |
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Professor Chris Love and colleagues revolutionize the study of individual cells - October 3 |
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| September |
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ChemE profs help build cardiac patch from gold nanowires - September 26 |
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Bob Langer wins Warren Alpert Foundation Prize - Sept. 15 |
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Michael Strano named co-director of MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and Systems - September 1. |
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MIT ChemE welcomes new assistant professor William A. Tisdale |
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Pat Doyle develops system to more accurately monitor disease-related biomarkers - August 18 |
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Paula Hammond finds incorporating core-shell particles lead to thinner better-performing devices - August 15 |
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Professor Kristala Prather discusses how she got into chemical engineering on ACS's "How Kids Became Scientists" - August 16
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Robert Langer selected as 2011 ACS fellow - August 8 |
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| July |
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Klavs Jensen designs a micro-reactor that can run sun-free photovoltaics - July 28 |
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Karen Gleason's printed solar cells could one day power iPads (Bloomberg News) - July 26 |
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Professor Alan Hatton discusses capturing greenhouse gases in the Boston Globe - July 25 |
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The Boston Globe discusses Karen Gleason’s solar cells printed on paper - July 18 |
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Professor Kristala Prather discusses organisms as chemical factories at the World Economic Forum - July 15 |
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Professors Love and Cooney discuss why biomanufacturing is so difficult - July 15 |
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Bob Langer creates synthetic material to revitalize damaged vocal cords - July 14 |
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Karen Gleason prints solar cells on paper - July 11 |
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Professor Klavs Jensen awarded AIChE’s 2011 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature - July 5 |
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| June |
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Professor Greg Stephanopoulos elected a Corresponding Foreign Member of the Academy of Athens, Greece - June 4 |
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Professors Blankschtein, Strano devise layered graphene production method - June 28 |
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Arup Chakraborty finds an HIV weakness that could make vaccines more effective - June 21 |
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Institute Professor Bob Langer wins Priestley Medal, chemistry’s top award - June 21 |
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Paul Barton wins 2011 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from AIChE's CAST Division - June 20 |
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Prof. Bernhardt Trout receives AIChE’s 2011 Impact Award - June 20 |
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Michael Strano discusses solar technology on Denmark's Woodward Report (minute 16:41) - June 10 |
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MIT’s “The Future of Natural Gas” study released
(Postdoc Carolyn Seto and Profs. Armstrong and McRae contribute)
- June 9 |
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Congratulations, ChemE Class of 2011!
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- Commencement Day Reception Photos, June 3 |
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- Hooding Ceremony Photos, June 2 |
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| May |
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Congrats to Katie Lewis, Suzanne Maguire and Fran Miles for winning the School of Engineering Infinite Mile Award - May 26 |
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Grad student Diwaker Shukla wins National Biotech “Innovation in Biotechnology” award - May 16 |
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Team led by ChemE grad student Miles Barr finalist for MIT’s 2011 Clean Energy Prize - May 10 |
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Professor Michael Strano develops new sensor to detect tiny traces of explosives - May 10
 Watch CNN interview with Strano |
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Congratulations to all the ChemE 2011 award and fellowship winners! May 9 |
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| April |
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Removable ‘cloak’ for nanoparticles helps them target tumors - April 29 |
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ChemE Activities at MIT Open House - April 30 |
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Course X introduces new flexible 10-ENG undergraduate degree - April 22 |
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Grad student Shreerang Chhatre works to make water available for the world’s poor through fog harvesting - April 21 |
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Professor Greg Stephanopoulos wins ENI Prize on Renewable and Non-Conventional Energy - April 19 |
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MIT ChemE ranked #1 by QS (former Times Higher Education Rankings) - April 6 |
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| March |
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Professor Kristala Prather to receive the 2011 Biochemical Engineering Journal Young Investigator Award - March 21 |
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Coverage of Profs Hammond & Langer speaking at “Conquering Cancer through the Convergence of Science and Engineering” Symposium - March 18 |
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CourseX again ranked #1 grad program by USNews - March 15 |
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Professor Emeritus Charles N. Satterfield passed away on Monday, March 14, 2011, at the age of 89. |
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Bob Langer and grad student Pedro Valencia develop 3-D microfluidic system for better control of drug-delivering nanoparticles - March 8 |
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Paula Hammond one of the top 100 Materials Scientists for 2000-2010 - March 2 |
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Dow announces multiyear collaboration with MIT for innovative educational outreach - March 2 |
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| February |
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Karen Gleason’s oxidative chemical vapor deposition on the cover of the February 2011 AIChE Journal |
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ChemE alum and astronaut Bobby Satcher speaks at the annual MIT Laureates and Leaders induction ceremony - February 24 |
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Professor Gleason’s “microworm” implants could produce fluorescent tattoos for easy monitoring of biomedical indicators - February 17 |
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Professor Blankschtein's group experimental and molecular dynamics simulations work on the amphiphilicity of the dye SRB in aqueous media is featured on the February 17 cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. |
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Michael Strano (#19) and Bob Langer (#85) two of the Top 100 Chemists of the decade - February 10 |
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Christopher Boyce has been named a Gates Cambridge Scholar! - February 10 |
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Bob Langer’s work highlighted on NOVA’s Feb. 9 “Making Stuff: Smarter” ( minute 40:35) |
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Congratulations to freshly promoted Full Professor Pat Doyle and newly minted Associate Professors Kris Prather and Chris Love! - February 2 |
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| January |
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Course X Senior Cecilia Louis discusses her IAP work in Barcelona - January 27 |
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Science News discusses Professor Chakraborty's immunology work and the role of physics - January 15 |
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Professor Karen Gleason’s technique could produce manufacturing filters that select molecules according to their chemical properties and dimensions - January 12 |
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In white paper, MIT ChemE profs and other MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields - January 4 |
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IEEE Spectrum discusses Professor Karen Gleason’s ability to print solar panels on toilet paper - January 3 |
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| 2010 |
| December |
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Professor Robert Langer ’74’s controlled drug release technology a “baby boomer invention that changed the world” - December 30 |
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Professor Patrick Doyle’s hydrogel barcodes could simplify medical diagnostics - December 22 |
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Professor Hammond’s layer-by-layer assembly can help prevent infection from surgery - December 13 |
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Professor Kristala Prather honored for excellence in teaching - December 3 |
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| November |
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Professor Paula Hammond creates nanoparticles to target cancer cells - November 18 |
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Professors Langer and Anderson target cancer through RNA interference - November 16 |
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| October |
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Professor Greg Stephanopoulos first runner-up for ConocoPhillips Energy Prize - October 20 |
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Professor Karen Gleason makes a paper-thin solar cell - October 18 |
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Professor Chris Love one of Popular Science’s 2010 “Brilliant 10” - October 18 |
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Professor Bob Langer develops nanoparticle to improve cancer drug delivery - October 5 |
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Professor Bob Langer receives NAE Founders Award - October 1 |
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Professor Greg Stephanopoulos engineers microbes to help create low-cost anticancer drugs - October 1 |
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| September |
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Dr. Steve Koonin, Under Secretary for Science, Department of Energy, discusses energy innovation - September 23 |
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Professor Kristala Prather finds new way to dramatically boost bacteria’s manufacturing abilities - September 21 |
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MIT ChemE welcomes MLK Visiting Professor Donna J. Nelson - September 17 |
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New antenna made of carbon nanotubes could make solar cells more efficient by concentrating solar energy - September 13 |
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Professor Strano finds single ions moving through carbon-nanotube channels, which could foster more sensitive detectors or water-desalination systems - September 10 |
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Professor Michael Strano develops self-assembling photovoltaic technology that can repair itself - September 7 |
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| August |
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Welcome New Course X Professors! |
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Professors Langer and Anderson develop technique to grow stem cells in lab - August 23 |
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MIT ChemE again named #1 undergraduate program by USNews - August 17 |
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Professor Chris Love on Massively Parallel, PCR-Based, Single-Cell Gene Expression Analysis - August 12 |
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USNews discusses Professor Strano’s electricity-creating carbon nanotubes - August 10 |
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Three ChemE graduate students earn DoE Energy Fellowships - August 10 |
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| July |
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Post-doc Dan Heller named Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow - July 14 |
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| June |
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Professor Greg Stephanopoulos awarded BIO’s George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology - June 29 |
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MIT News chronicles how Professor Emeritus Edward Merrill PhD ’47 helped steer his field toward biomedicine - June 29 |
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MIT releases new report “The Future of Natural Gas,” with contributions from Professors Armstrong and McRae - June 25 |
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Professor Paula Hammond and team use carbon nanotubes to improve battery capacity - June 18 |
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Astronaut Bobby Satcher ’86, PhD ’93, recounts his experience as the first orthopedic surgeon in space - June 3 |
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| May |
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Professor Michael Strano’s carbon nanotube ‘Tattoo’ may help diabetics track their blood sugar - May 28 |
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Congrats to Fulbright Scholar and Course X senior Rachel Licht, who will travel to France to study the production of cellulosic ethanol by fermentation - May 26 |
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Professor Chris Love’s new technology allows for more precise food-allergy diagnoses - May 21 |
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Symposium in honor of Professor Emeritus Edward W. Merrill held on May 14 |
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Professor Dane Wittrup explains the phenomenon of directed evolution - May 13 |
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Congratulations to all the ChemE 2010 award and fellowship winners! May 10 |
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Course X junior Christine Ohrt gives advice on group project success - May 7 |
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Professor Karen Gleason prints solar cells on paper - May 6 |
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Professor Arup Chakraborty’s insights into HIV immunity may have implications for an effective AIDS vaccine - May 6 |
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Professor Paula Hammond profiled in MIT ILP Insider - May 5 |
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Congratulations to ChemE’s “Sweaty Sweeties” for winning the 2010 MIT GetFit Challenge! - April 29 |
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Professor Bob Armstrong profiled in the Spring edition of ChemE Education |
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MIT ChemE ranked #1 again in US News list of top graduate schools |
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Grad student Deepak Dugar helps apply ranking algorithms to pharmaceutical R&D - April 13 |
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Professor Paula Hammond received the 2010 Distinguished Scientist Award from the Harvard Foundation - April 2 |
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| March |
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MIT Forum on the future of manufacturing - including Professors Trout and Cooney - March 31 |
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Paula Hammond helps engineer success for underrepresented faculty - March 26 |
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Professor Chris Love discovers “slackers and superstars of the microbial workplace” - March 26 |
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MITEI spotlights Strano Lab’s energy work - March 19 |
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Professor Paula Hammond lends her nanotechnology expertise to farmers in Africa - March 12 |
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Professor Bob Cohen elected Materials Research Society Fellow |
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Mass High Tech highlights Strano and Hammond energy work - March 8 |
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Professor Michael Strano finds carbon nanotubes could create electricity - March 8 |
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Professor Michael Strano builds first sensor array to detect single molecules emitted by a cell - March 8 |
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LGO and ChemE student Kacey Fetcho-Phiilips receives new faces of engineering award - March 3 |
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Professor Arup Chakraborty discusses his transition from statistical mechanics to immunology in The Scientist - March 1 |
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Professor Narendra Maheshri’s and grad student T. L. To’s work on bimodal gene expression published in Science - February 26 |
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Professor Paula Hammond and postdoc Avni Argun produce new way to build membranes for fuel cells - February 17 |
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Professor Bob Cohen elected to the National Academy of Engineering - February 17 |
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Congratulations to Tim Humpton ’10, named a Gates Cambridge Scholar - February 17 |
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Professor Emeritus Howard Brenner feted in the January 2010 edition of Chemical Engineering Education |
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Graduate student Arman Haidari’s predictive simulations can monitor carbon sequestration - January 11 |
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| 2009 |
| December |
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Professor Klavs Jensen elected AIChE Fellow - Decmber 8 |
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Graduate student Christopher Pritchard awarded CIMIT fellowship - December 4 |
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Professor Paula Hammond named AIMBE Fellow - Decelmber 4 |
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Professor Paul Barton and associate Tom Adams propose a zero-emissions power plant - December 3 |
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Professor Emeritus Ed Merrill receives AIMBE's 2010 Galletti Award |
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| October |
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Professor Paula Hammond discusses her research with President Obama - October 27 |
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Arup Chakraborty and colleagues receive NCI grant to study cancer - October 27 |
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MIT Chemical Engineering Announces its 2009 Graduate Fellow Recipients |
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Professor Bob Langer works to help Julie Andrews sing again - October 22 |
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Professor Michael Strano named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10” |
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Congratulations to our ChemE MIT Presidential Fellows! |
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Professor Bob Cohen named Director of MIT Program in Polymer Science and Technology (PPST) |
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Professor Arup Chakraborty answers questions on AIDS vaccine research - September 29 |
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The Scientist profiles Prof. Chris Love, “The Nanoimmunologist” |
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| August |
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Professor Greg Stephanopoulos wins the 2010 ACS E.V. Murphree Award - August 31 |
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Postdoc Jong-Ho Kim uses carbon nanotubes to detect nitric oxide - August 21 |
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The MIT ChemE Undergrad Program ranked #1 by USNews - August 20 |
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Welcome to the Department Professor Hadley Sikes! |
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Drug-dispensing contact lens passes early tests (Professor Bob Langer and former post-doc Daniel Kohane) - August 4 |
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Professor Chris Love named W. M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research - July 31 |
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| June |
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Professor Bernhardt Trout and his team develop a computer model to design more stable antibody drugs - June 29 |
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Professor Karen Gleason and postdoc Sreeram Vaddiraju have found inexpensive way to make light-emitting devices - June 15 |
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Professor Arup Chakraborty hosts the Ragon Institute's Computational Immunology Symposium - June 12 |
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Professor Greg Stephanopoulos awarded the 2009 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award - June 5 |
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Professor Bob Langer “is second only to Thomas Edison as the most inventive American in history,” according to Businessweek - June 3 |
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Professor Michael Strano receives $5 million DoD grant to build ultra-fast microchips - May 28 |
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Professors Green and Prather receive MITEI grant for biofuel research - May 5 |
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Professor Greg Rutledge’s electrospinning work profiled by TechTalk - May 5 |
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Professors Gleason and Strano research graphene, a potential “miracle” material - May 4 |
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Congratulations to Professor Michael Strano, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1. |
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MIT ChemE ranked #1 again in US News list of top graduate schools - April 23 |
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Professors George and Greg Stephanopoulos to be honored with Mass. Greek Independence Day Lifetime Achievement Awards on
April 24 |
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Professor Kristala Prather helps provide analysis of opportunities for producing important cancer drugs through biotechnology - April 17 |
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Professor Pat Doyle named 2009 Guggenheim Fellow in Engineering - April 8 |
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Congratulations 2009 Course X Phi Beta Kappa electees! |
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Professor Paula Hammond moderates 30th anniversary of Black Alumni at MIT - April 6 |
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Professor Michael Strano helps engineer viruses that build lithium-ion batteries - April 2 |
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Professor Bob Armstrong to discuss MITEI at First Parish of Lexington, MA - April 2 |
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Professor Bob Langer’s research helps fight frizz - April 2 |
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Nature shares a day in the life of Professor Bob Langer - March 4 |
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Professor Kristala Prather featured in Science Careers - February 27 |
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Professor Bob Cohen and Graduate Student Zekeriyya Gemici use capillary condensation to functionalize inorganic nanoparticle coatings - February 27 |
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Professors Prather and Stephanopoulos work to create bacteria to help better the environment - February 17 |
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Professor Paul Barton & alum Alexander Mitsos (PhD ’06) publish a new book on micropower generation devices. |
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Professor Bill Green becomes editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics. |
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Professors Chakraborty and Love help launch Ragon Institute to develop AIDS vaccine - February 4 |
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Professor Chris Love receives $400k Human Immunology Grant from the Dana Foundation - January 26 |
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ChemE Grad Student (Hammond Group), Seung Woo Lee’s work on nanotube superbatteries featured in Tech Review - January 9 |
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| 2008 |
| December |
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Graduate student Andy Wijaya uses gold and light to help control drug delivery -- December 30 |
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Professor Dane Wittrup makes an antibody discovery that could help fight cancer -- December 22 |
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ChemE welcomes Associate Professor Martin Bazant to the department. |
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Professor Arup Chakraborty elected Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science -- December 18 |
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Professor Michael Strano and grad student Daniel Heller develop carbon nanotubes to help aid chemotherapy -- December 14 |
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Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and NOBCCHE (The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers) announced the establishment of a Technology Education Partnership (TEP) -- December 5 |
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ChemE student Ashleigh Hildebrand presents CO2 emission research at the 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies in DC -- November 17 |
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Professor Bob Cohen and post-doc Anish Tuteja present design rules for oil-repellant materials -- November 10 |
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Professor Bob Cohen, MIT’s Michael Rubner, and colleagues outfit cells with tiny polymer "backpacks" to deliver meds, diagnose tumors or aid tissue engineering -- November 6 |
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Professor Chris Love and colleagues create new “protein-printing” technique to study immune system defense -- November 3 |
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C&E News: MIT #1 in ChE R&D spending and federal ChE R&D funding for 2006 -- November 3 |
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| October |
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Professor Paula Hammond, graduate student Nathan Ashcraft, and postdoctoral researcher Avni Argun's fuel cell work profiled in Technology Review.. |
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Professor Pat Doyle wins the Lab on a Chip/Corning Inc Pioneers of Miniaturisation Prize 2008 -- October 22 |
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ChemE grad students showcase their research at the 2008 Energy Night at the MIT Museum -- October 10 |
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Professors Gleason and Love awarded fall 2008 research grants from the MIT Deshpande Center -- October 9 |
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| September |
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Professor Alan Hatton interviewed on the September issue of ACS Nano podcast about his recently published paper -- September 23 |
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Hoyt C. Hottel Lecture in Chemical Engineering will be presented by
Vinod Khosla, founder
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Professor Chris Love and colleagues introduce novel technology for analyzing single blood cells -- September 3 |
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| August |
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USNews ranks MIT ChemE undergrad program #1. |
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Professor Paula Hammond and team use virus to create microbatteries -- August 18 |
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In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Jack B. Howard, 1937-2008. July 8 |
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Summer cookout for ChemE undergraduates who worked as a UROP or an intern in local companies -- July 8. [See photos] |
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Institute Professor Robert S. Langer wins the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize -- June 11 |
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Professor Michael Strano develops most sensitive detector for sarin, mustard gas and other nerve agents -- June 6 |
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ChemE Graduation -- June 6 [See photos] |
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Institute Professor Robert S. Langer wins the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research for the creation of new materials for the benefit of mankind -- June 5 |
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| May |
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Professors Paula Hammond and Michael Strano share thoughts on potential economy-boosting technologies -- May 21 |
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Professor Paula Hammond’s research group creates new material for fuel cells -- May 16 |
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MIT ChemE alumni Michael Raab and Jeremy Johnson work to make ethanol from corn husks -- May 15 |
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The Warren K. Lewis Lecture given by Professor John F. Brady, California Institute of Technology -- May 9 |
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Professor Hammond’s research group shows polymer electrolyte thin films improve fuel cell performance -- May 8 |
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Professor Hammond discusses nanotechnology and privacy with Earth & Sky. [Listen to podcast] -- May 6 |
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Professor Jensen elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences -- April 28 |
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Professor Karen Gleason has been named the School of Engineering's associate dean for research - April 2 |
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Professor Bob Cohen’s biomimetic work highlighted in April’s National Geographic -- April 1 |
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Professor Doyle's student, Dhananjay Dendukuri, helps create new method for making microscale particles with distinct sizes, shapes and textures -- March 26 |
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Professor Langer wins top German science award -- March 18 |
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| February |
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Professor Langer and ChemE students develop a gecko-inspired bandage. -- February 18 |
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Professor Greg Stephanopoulos discusses the future of biofuels at the annual AAAS meeting -- February 16 |
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Professor Langer demonstrates drug delivery by nanoparticle -- February 13 |
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Tester Lab teamwork goes on the road -- February 13 |
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“Magnetic Nanoparticles” by Profs. Hatton and Rutledge and Drs. Singh and Wang, make the cover of Advanced Functional Materials. -- February 11 |
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Hammond Group members introduce a ‘micro pharmacy’ drug delivery system -- February 11 |
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Professor Alan Hatton’s paper Functionalization of Monodisperse Magnetic Nanoparticles one of 2007’s most accessed for Langmuir -- Volume 24, February 19, 2008. |
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Professor Bob Armstrong is elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering -- February 8 |
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Congratulations to Professor Bernhardt Trout, on his promotion to full professorship. |
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Label-Free Quantification and Identification Proteomics Symposium -- January 29 |
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Professor Arup Chakraborty receives IIT Kanpur's Distinguished Alumnus Award. |
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