Alumni Profile: Bud Moeller Fearless in Business, Race Car Driving
Robert C. “Bud” Moeller has never let fear stop him from pursuing his dreams, from racing to the top in the consulting world to setting speed records in some of the fastest cars in existence.
Microscopic STAR Particles Offer New Potential Treatment for Skin Diseases
Technology. In a study published on March 9, 2020, in the journal Nature Medicine, Prausnitz and his team of researchers report on research using a skin cream infused with microscopic particles, named STAR particles.
Study: New Microfluidic Device Facilitates Sensory Integration Research
Understanding sensory integration is an important problem in neuroscience, because all animals need to figure out what stimulatory input is relevant and how to respond to changes in the environment for survival.
Faculty Profile: Professor Peter Ludovice Bridges Humor and STEM Education
Peter Ludovice researches the value of humor in STEM while education and travels across the United States performing as a stand-up comedian.
Georgia Tech Creates First Online Graduate Certificate in Data Science for the Chemical Industry
Georgia Tech launches specialized graduate certificate to bridge the data science gap for the chemical industry.
Strategic Plan Draft Available for Review, Application Period Open for Phase Two Working Groups
Georgia Tech has released the draft of its strategic plan document for community feedback and is accepting applications for working groups.
Recent PhD Graduate Claudia Okonkwo Makes News for Development Efforts in Nigeria
As the 2018 Chapter president of an Atlanta based non-profit UIU, Okowkwo and her team raised $18 to build boreholes in Nigeria
Meredith Selected as Executive Director of Renewable Bioproducts Institute
The Renewable Bioproducts Institute develops new products, processes, and technologies for industries that include paper and packaging, biochemicals and fuels, and bio-composites and nanocellulose.”
Four ChBE Professors Win Prestigious NSF CAREER Awards
The CAREER Award is the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty.
Scientists Transform Barbecue Lighter Into a High-Tech Lab Device
Researchers have devised a straightforward technique for building a laboratory device known as an electroporator.
ChBE Master’s Student Po-Wei Huang Wins Three Minute Thesis Competition
Since 2015, Georgia Tech’s competition has helped graduate students hone their communication skills by challenging them to share their research in three minutes in a way anyone could understand.
Student Profile: Franz Carranza Applying Undergraduate CBD Research to Opening Beltline Business
Carranza started his company, TheraSolv Botanicals, in 2017 as an online CBD-focused retailer.
Georgia Tech’s 100,000th Living Engineering Graduate is from ChBE
Oluwaferanmi Adeyemo graduated December 14.
ChBE to Offer Online Graduate Certificate in Data Science for the Chemical Industry
This program will be available to non-degree students and core courses will be taught by Georgia Tech ChBE’s world-renowned faculty.
In the News: PhD Student Matt McDonald a Top Contender in Marathon Olympic Trials
After finishing fifth for Americans in the Chicago Marathon, Matt McDonald has big goals for Trials
Faculty Profile: Michael Filler Seeks to Hyper-scale Electronics Manufacturing
Filler aims to revolutionize the manufacturing of electronics, allowing them to be used in new energy, health, infrastructure, aerospace, and military applications.
Research Horizons Feature: Ajit Yoganathan, King of Hearts
Yoganathan invented the science of prosthetic heart valve engineering in that lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1979
Clearing the Air About Aerosol Science
ScienceMatters Season 3, Episode 5 is all about Sally Ng and environmental aerosols.
Test for Life-Threatening Nutrient Deficit Made From Bacteria Entrails
Thousands die of zinc deficiency, but this test could detect it easily.
Alumni Profile: Rene Guermonprez of Aptar CSP Loves Developing Engineering Talent
Guermonprez, ChBE 1989, is global quality director for Aptar CSP Technologies