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Faculty Grants & Awards

• Prof. Konstantopoulos awarded NIH-RO1 grant (June 2008) (expand)
  Prof. Konstantopoulos awarded NIH-RO1 grant
  
  Prof. Konstantopoulos was awarded a research grant in the amount of approximately 1.6 million dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIAMS) to delineate shear-induced signaling networks in mammalian cells. (collapse)
• Professor Gracias awarded 2008 DuPont Young Professor Award (May 2008) (expand)
  

  Professor Gracias awarded 2008 DuPont Young Professor Award

  Gracias was selected as one of twelve recipients of the 2008 DuPont Young Professor Award. This 40 year old award at DuPont is meant to support young promising untenured faculty. Gracias will receive $75,000 over three years as a part of the DuPont award to support his group’s research on the understanding of electronic conduction at the interfaces of organic semiconductors and dielectrics within functional organic electronic devices such as organic field effect transistors. In the past few years Gracias has utilized non-linear optical spectroscopy to study molecular changes in organic transistors in-situ during transistor operation. The research theme in the Gracias group focuses on the science of miniaturization with applications in electronics and medicine and is also funded by the NSF, NIH, DOD, Beckman and Dreyfus Foundations. (collapse)

• Justin Hanes awarded an NSF grant to create a New Undergraduate Engineering Minor in Nanotechnology Risk Assessment and Public Policy (October 2007) (expand)
  Justin Hanes awarded an NSF grant to create a New Undergraduate Engineering Minor in Nanotechnology Risk Assessment and Public Policy (October 2007)
  This grant seeks funding to develop a new undergraduate engineering minor at Johns Hopkins, housed in the Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT), and involving: the Whiting School of Engineering, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Risk Sciences & Public Policy Institute, the Berman Institute for Bioethics, The Center for Law and the Public’s Health, and the Center for Educational Outreach. co-PIs are Jonathan Links (Environmental Health Sciences) and Edward Bouwer (Geography and Environmental Engineering). (collapse)
• Michael Bevan joins ChemBE Department (October 2007)
• David Gracias awarded the 2007 Maryland Young Engineer of the Year Award (May 2007)

Sudent Grants & Awards

• 2008 ChemBE Undergraduate Awards (expand)

  2008 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Awards
  The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has named the recipients of this year’s undergraduate awards. The awards will be presented at the Convocation ceremony on May 5 at 3:00 pm in 110 Hodson Hall.

  American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Award for Scholastic Achievement: For the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering students with the highest scholastic standing after the sophomore year. This award is given to student with junior standing.(collapse)

  • Amy Fu
  • Dennis Ko
  • Nisarg Shah
  • Michael Zhang
  • Pei Kun Richie Tay

  Paul A.C. Cook  Award from the ChemBE Department: Given to outstanding sophomores or juniors in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering who are best all-around students.

  • Eric Lam
  • Rachel Truitt

  Loy Wilkinson Award: For a demonstrated record of academic excellence, leadership, and service in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

  • Shirley Leong
  • Gwendolyn Melnyk

  Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Research Award: For demonstrated contributions to research in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

  • Jeremy Harris
  • Richie Tay
  • Nisarg Shah
  • George Stern
  • Sunyia Hussain
  • Joseph Abatemarco
  • Thomas Long

  Joseph L Katz Award: Presented to Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seniors for academic excellence and service to the department and fellow students.

  • JD Bagert
  • Jeremy Harris
  • Alex Teran
  • Omer Sedes

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• Ben Tang wins Diversity Recognition Award (April 2008) (expand)
  Ben Tang wins Diversity Recognition Award
  
  ChemBE graduate student Ben Tang has been selected to receive a 2008 Diversity Recognition Award to be presented by President Brody at the Awards Ceremony scheduled for Thursday, May 1, 2008 at noon in the Glass Pavilion (Homewood).
  
  Ben spent more than a year working with the National Federation for the Blind, preparing an event that ultimately hosted over 200 blind and low-vision high school students from more than 40 states The "Youth Slam" event took place on the Homewood campus this past summer.
  
  The visiting high school students took part in specially-designed,non-visual science and technology experiments and workshops using JHU facilities and working with JHU faculty.  The event enabled the high school students to complete science and technology projects while being mentored and encouraged them to pursue further education and careers in these fields.
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• SEBM Best Paper for 2007 (March 2008) (expand)
  The Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine has chosen the paper, “Quantifying the Intracellular Transport of Viral and Nonviral Gene Vectors in Primary Neurons” authored by Jung Soo Suk, Junghae Suh, Samuel K. Lai and Justin Hanes as the SEBM Best Paper for 2007 in the experimental biology/basic research category. (collapse)
• Nisarg Shah was selected as a winner of the Genentech PD Awards Program (Devember 2007) (expand)
  Congratulations to Nisarg Shah
  
  Current ChemBE Student Nisarg Shah was selected as a winner of the Genentech PD Awards Program which includes a prize of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) and an internship opportunity in the Process, Research & Development Organization at Genentech, Inc. for the summer of 2008. (Devember 2007) (collapse)
• Timothy Leong wins a Gold Graduate Student Award (November 2007) (expand)
  Timothy Leong wins a Gold Graduate Student Award conferred by the Materials Research Society (MRS)
  
  Congratulations to Tim Leong (Gracias Group), who was awarded a Gold Graduate Student Award at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting. The GSA award is the most prestigious graduate student award in the Materials Science Community, and is hotly contested. MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. (November 2007) (collapse)
• Dennis Ko who won a poster award at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Meeting (Novermber 2007) (expand)
  Congratulations to Dennis Ko who won a poster award at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Meeting
  
  Dennis Ko won a third place award from for his poster titled, "A Treatment for Myopia, Hyperopia, and Keratoconus: Collagen Crosslinking to Reshape the Cornea" at the 2007 National AIChE Undergraduate Student Poster Session from approximately 60 posters in the Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnology Division. (November 2007) (collapse)
• Christina Randall and Tim Leong won first place in MEMS poster competition (October 2007) (expand)
  Graduate Students win MEMS Poster Competition
  
  Congratulations to Christina Randall and Tim Leong won first place in the poster competition (out of approx 25 posters) at the 2007 MEMS Alliance Mid Atlantic Area Conference for their poster titled, "Nanoliter containers for Biomedical Applications". They received a plaque and $1000. (October 2007) (collapse)
• Monica Berrondo receives a Ruth L. Kirschstein Graduate Fellowship from the NIH (July 2007)
• Eric Kim wins a Provost's Undergraduate Research Award (May 2007)
• Dave Masica wins a Genentech poster award at ICBE (January 2007)

Miscellaneous News

• 2008 Stanley Corrsin Memorial Lecture (April 2008) (expand)
  Professor Juan de Pablo from the University of Wisconsin to present 2008 Stanley Corrsin Memorial Lecture on April 24th - Link to flyer... (collapse)
• ChemBE Research Night - Tuesday April 15, 2008 (more information...)
  ChemBE Research Night - Tuesday April 15, 2008 (collapse)

  1. 4:30-6:30 Undergraduate Research Posters
  2. 6:30 break and dinner*
  3. 6:45-8:30 Graduate Student Talks
  4. Location TBD
  5. Dinner is free for students, sponsored by the Maryland Chapter of AIChE
• Holtz Lecture 1Information (pdf)
• Holtz Lecture 2 Information (pdf)

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