In the News

2009
October
•	Professor Paula Hammond discusses her research with President Obama - October 27
•	Arup Chakraborty and colleagues receive NCI grant to study cancer - October 27
•	MIT Chemical Engineering Announces its 2009 Graduate Fellow Recipients
•	Professor Bob Langer works to help Julie Andrews sing again - October 22
•	Professor Michael Strano named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10”
•	Congratulations to our ChemE MIT Presidential Fellows!
•	Professor Bob Cohen named Director of MIT Program in Polymer Science and Technology (PPST)

September
•	Professor Arup Chakraborty answers questions on AIDS vaccine research - September 29
•	The Scientist profiles Prof. Chris Love, “The Nanoimmunologist”

August
•	Professor Greg Stephanopoulos wins the 2010 ACS E.V. Murphree Award - August 31
•	Postdoc Jong-Ho Kim uses carbon nanotubes to detect nitric oxide - August 21
•	The MIT ChemE Undergrad Program ranked #1 by USNews - August 20
•	Welcome to the Department Professor Hadley Sikes!
•	Drug-dispensing contact lens passes early tests (Professor Bob Langer and former post-doc Daniel Kohane) - August 4

July
•	Professor Chris Love named W. M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research - July 31

June
•	Professor Bernhardt Trout and his team develop a computer model to design more stable antibody drugs - June 29
•	Professor Karen Gleason and postdoc Sreeram Vaddiraju have found inexpensive way to make light-emitting devices - June 15
•	Professor Arup Chakraborty hosts the Ragon Institute's Computational Immunology Symposium - June 12
•	Professor Greg Stephanopoulos awarded the 2009 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award - June 5
•	Professor Bob Langer “is second only to Thomas Edison as the most inventive American in history,” according to Businessweek - June 3

May
•	Professor Michael Strano receives $5 million DoD grant to build ultra-fast microchips - May 28
•	Professors Green and Prather receive MITEI grant for biofuel research - May 5
•	Professor Greg Rutledge’s electrospinning work profiled by TechTalk - May 5
•	Professors Gleason and Strano research graphene, a potential “miracle” material - May 4
•	Congratulations to Professor Michael Strano, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1.

April
•	MIT ChemE ranked #1 again in US News list of top graduate schools - April 23
•	Professors George and Greg Stephanopoulos to be honored with Mass. Greek Independence Day Lifetime Achievement Awards on April 24
•	Professor Kristala Prather helps provide analysis of opportunities for producing important cancer drugs through biotechnology - April 17
•	Professor Pat Doyle named 2009 Guggenheim Fellow in Engineering - April 8
•	Congratulations 2009 Course X Phi Beta Kappa electees!
•	Professor Paula Hammond moderates 30th anniversary of Black Alumni at MIT - April 6
•	Professor Michael Strano helps engineer viruses that build lithium-ion batteries - April 2
•	Professor Bob Armstrong to discuss MITEI at First Parish of Lexington, MA - April 2
•	Professor Bob Langer’s research helps fight frizz - April 2

March
•	Nature shares a day in the life of Professor Bob Langer - March 4

February
•	Professor Kristala Prather featured in Science Careers - February 27
•	Professor Bob Cohen and Graduate Student Zekeriyya Gemici use capillary condensation to functionalize inorganic nanoparticle coatings - February 27
•	Professors Prather and Stephanopoulos work to create bacteria to help better the environment - February 17
•	Professor Paul Barton & alum Alexander Mitsos (PhD ’06) publish a new book on micropower generation devices.
•	Professor Bill Green becomes editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Chemical Kinetics.
•	Professors Chakraborty and Love help launch Ragon Institute to develop AIDS vaccine - February 4

January
•	Professor Chris Love receives $400k Human Immunology Grant from the Dana Foundation - January 26
•	ChemE Grad Student (Hammond Group), Seung Woo Lee’s work on nanotube superbatteries featured in Tech Review - January 9

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