Spotlight

22nd Annual UB CBE Graduate Student Research Symposium

Keynote: Dr. Durgesh S. Vaidya Director of Research & Development, OFS "Phase Equilibria of Corporate Life" Center for the Arts UB Amherst Campus Friday October 25th, 2019 Doors Open 12:30pm, Lectures 1:00pm, Student Poster Competition and Mixer 3:30-5:30pm

UB CBE Open-Rank Faculty Hire

The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University at Buffalo plans open-rank faculty hires (Assistant, Associate and Full Professor ranks) in the 2019-20 academic year . 

Achievements

Mark Swihart has been named fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Lori DuVall-Jackson Received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Classified Service

Ogechi Ogoke took first place in UB’s Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition. Ogoke, a doctoral stud ent in Natesh Parashurama’s lab in U B CBE, won the prize for a patient-specific cell therapy that can be used as an alternative to a liver transplant.

Research

Associate Professor Haiqing Lin Is Leading a ~ 3.8 million DOE Project to Develop Carbon Capture Membranes The multi-institutional project seeks to develop advanced membrane materials for CO 2 /N 2  separation, which can be adapted to membrane processes for CO 2  capture from fossil fuel-fired power plants, cement plants, steel plants and other industrial facilities. Timothy Cook, UB assistant professor of chemistry, is serving as co-principal investigator. The project is a collaboration with scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the California Institute of Technology, Membrane Technology and Research, Inc., and the Trimeric Corporation.

News

The UB CBE AIChE Student Chapter elected an all-female executive board to lead the club in the 2019-20 academic year

UB CBE Undergraduate Joshua Hazelnis received the first annual Professor Edward P. Furlani Scholarship

For one week in July, UB CBE hosted its first annual cheme camp , designed for high school juniors and seniors with an interest in and aptitude for chemistry, physics and/or mathematics.

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