Student Awards and Honors

The Chemical and Biological Engineering Department hosted an awards ceremony for the outstanding undergraduate students in the department on May 1, 2025.

The Chemical and Biological Engineering Department hosted an awards ceremony for the outstanding undergraduate students on May 3, 2024

On Friday, March 1, 2024, the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition celebrated PhD students' exciting research by cultivating their academic, presentation, and research communication skills. Participants were judged on their ability to effectively convey the essence and importance of their research engagingly to a non-specialist audience in just 3 minutes, with one PowerPoint slide.

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The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering hosted an awards ceremony for outstanding undergraduates on May, 2023.

The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is pleased to announce its second annual Award for Student Achievement in Sexual Violence Prevention for the 2023–2024 academic year.

The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering hosted an awards ceremony for outstanding undergraduates on May 11, 2022.

CBE PhD Candidate Saber Meamardoost earned 3rd place in the fifth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for his work on using network inference to understand neuroplasticity in the brain during learning.

UB CBE virtually hosted the annual graduate research symposium on Tuesday, November 10, 2020. During the poster sessions one student from each group was voted winner by a panel of judges. Congratulations to all of the students who participated and to those who won!

James Tran is a 2020 recipient of the AIChE Separations Division GSRA Award for membrane-based separations.

The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering hosted a virtual Scholarship Reception via Zoom on May 19, 2020 for UB CBE undergraduate students. Watch the full reception here.