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!
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.
Joshua Hazelnis, a senior CBE student, is one of seven UB students that have been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
Nika Rajabian, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, won first place for her research poster in the annual SEAS Graduate Student Poster Competition.
Emmanuel Nsengiyumva was awarded the 2019 "Excellence in Teaching Award" by UB's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Emmanuel was also awarded the Western New York Prosperity Fellowship for 2019-2020.
Gaurav Vishwakarma has been selected for the 2020 Computational Chemistry and Materials Science Summer Institute at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
Junjie Chen's research on elucidating the mechanism of methane combustion over Ni/CeO based catalysts was accepted for an oral presentation in June 2020 at the 17International Congress on Catalysis (ICC) in San Diego, CA.
Hien Nguyen, a PhD student in Dr. Haiqing Lin's research group received the best poster award of the Separations Division at the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL for his work on carbonized membrane materials.
Over 80 posters were featured at the annual Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Research Symposium. All graduate students in their second year and beyond take part in the annual fall symposium and poster judges from every aspect of chemical and biological engineering come to participate.
Noah Seiler placed 2nd in the 2019 AIChE Virtual Local Section (VLS) student competition. Top undergraduate student co-ops and interns present on their exciting work at this special annual VLS event. Each finalist has up to 10 minutes to present the results of their summer or co-op project and answer questions from a live audience.
