2022

Nov 15

Carnegie Mellon students take home first place in annual ChemE Cube competition

Carnegie Mellon Chemical Engineering students took home first place in the 2022 RAPID Manufacturing Institute's ChemE Cube competition for their invention, the "Water-Mellon."

Nov 11

Watch: The 3rd annual John L. Anderson Distinguished Lecture

The third annual John L. Anderson Distinguished Lecture Series in Chemical Engineering featured Kathleen J. Stebe, the Richer and Elizabeth Goodwin Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, who presented "Physically Intelligent Colloidal Systems."

Nov 01

Decarbonizing industry with 3D-printed stacked columns Opens in new window

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are exploring ways to reduce emissions from power plants using post-combustion carbon capture via absorption through additively manufactured stacked columns.

Oct 11

Microneedles unlock curcumin’s therapeutic potential Opens in new window

Researchers engineer a hybrid system that stabilizes curcumin to target skin diseases.

Oct 07

Donahue receives AAAR David Sinclair Award

Carnegie Mellon University’s Neil Donahue, the Thomas Lord Professor in Chemical Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Chemistry Director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research, has been named the American Association for Aerosol Research’s (AAAR) 2022 David Sinclair Award recipient.

Oct 05

Undergraduates earn research experience through ChemE’s ChESS Program

Carnegie Mellon’s Chemical Engineering Summer Scholars Program (ChESS) provides rising juniors and seniors an opportunity to gain hands-on research experience.

Sep 06

Research offers experience to undergraduate students Opens in new window

Engineering students at Carnegie Mellon are often involved in research labs with faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students. But Marcus Yu had the unique experience of working in a lab that included researchers who were entirely undergraduate students.

Sep 05

Donahue to receive American Chemical Society Award

Neil Donahue will receive the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science at the ACS Spring 2023 meeting in Indianapolis.

Sep 02

Dean’s Early Career Fellows announced Opens in new window

Five College of Engineering faculty members have been awarded the Dean’s Early Career Fellowship in recognition of their exemplary contributions to their respective fields.

Aug 23

Order of the May alumni show lifetime dedication to giving back Opens in new window

Three Engineering alumni recognized this year for a quarter-century of consistent generosity began their philanthropic journeys in their early 20s.

Aug 17

Jackman engineers solutions to biology problems

Carnegie Mellon Chemical Engineering Postdoc, Corine Jackman, is using her interdisciplinary toolbox to engineer the future of medicine.

Jul 28

Making sense of too much data

With hundreds of research papers published each day, synthesizing all of the available information for literature reviews has become increasingly difficult. Now, professors and librarians at Carnegie Mellon University are teaming up to find and teach unique techniques to uncover pertinent information for academic studies.

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