Department of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern
October 2018 Newsletter

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Department of Chemical Engineering
October 2018 Newsletter

Letter from the Chair

Fall Means Showcasing Research and Education at AIChE

Welcome to our October newsletter! Of course, October is usually an extremely busy month for all of us preparing for the AIChE conference in terms of research and education presentations, recruitment activities, and business meetings which keep the Society running and thriving. I am so proud of our undergraduate and graduate students, whose presence at AIChE has grown over 20 times in just 6 years. Our faculty are now chairing sessions, groups, and symposia taking leadership positions all across the society. Our undergraduates are exposed to more research than ever at Northeastern and are winning more awards than ever. So, please everyone enjoy the conference to celebrate everything the AIChE community has accomplished over the years! And, have fun at all the University receptions!

Thomas Webster
Professor and Department Chair, Chemical Engineering
Art Zafiropoulo Chair in Engineering

Upcoming Events

Capstone 2 Poster Session
Raytheon Amphitheater
November 15th
1:00 - 3:00 pm

Liquid Chromatography Workshop
Northeastern - TBD
November 15th
5:00 - 8:00 pm
RSVP - Email dickgiberti@gmail.com

MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit
Boston, MA
November 25th - 30th, 2018

November Seminars
Churchill Hall 101
11:45 am - 1:00 pm
11/02 - Brendan Harley (U of Illinois)
11/09 - Helen Zha (RPI)
11/16 - Maysam Ghovanloo (Georgia Tech)
11/28 - James Collins (MIT)
11/30 - Rob Jensen (U.S. Army Research Laboratory)

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ChemE Website

Good luck to all of the ChemE faculty and students participating in AIChE 2018! Please send any pictures, accomplishments, etc. from the Annual Meeting to l.kissane@northeastern.edu.

We are so proud of the work you are doing!

Faculty News

Prof. Carrier - NIH Grant

Professor Rebecca Carrier recently received a $1.57M renewal of NIH grant
for "Impact of lipids and food on oral compound absorption: mechanistic studies and modeling." Learn more here....

QSM Diagnostics

Associate Professor Ed Goluch created the company QSM Diagnostics to help diagnose bacterial infections in animals quickly which would allow for faster treatments. Learn more here...

Quad Technologies

Quad Technologies, which was co-founded by Professor Shashi Murthy, has developed a material called QuickGel. It can be used to isolate genetically engineered T-cells that would allow a patient's immune system to target the cancer. Learn more here...

Prof. Landherr - Inaugural Speaker

Associate Teaching Professor Lucas Landherr was the inaugural speaker of the G. Michael Howard Engineering Education Lectureship, held at the University of Connecticut.
Learn more here...

Biomaterials in Translational Medicine

ChE Professor & Chair Thomas Webster has published the book "Biomaterials in Translational Medicine" which delivers timely and detailed information on the latest advances in biomaterials and their role and impact in translational medicine. Read more here...

Undergraduate News

Future Leader in ChE Research

Fifth-year ChE student Gabrielle Rabadam was selected for the Future Leaders in Chemical Engineering Symposium at North Carolina State University. The symposium selects the top ~20 undergraduate researchers for a one and a half day conference and awards ceremony. Gabrielle's research talk was also selected by the audience as the best talk among the 20 top undergraduate researchers at the conference. Read more here....

Student Spotlight - Liyutha Al Ismaili

Exploring and Discovering a Passion for Biochemistry - Read here

Co-op Student Technical Challenge Winner

Nate McCrone recently won the ChE Co-op Student Technical Challenge. Students submitted their stories/experiences to the Co-op team and the ChemE faculty voted on the best research/capstone idea. Learn more about Nate's submission here...

Graduate News

NeuroArt Winner

Danielle Large is a BioE PhD student advised by ChemE Prof. Debra Auguste and collaborating with ChemE Prof. Abigail Koppes. MBF Bioscience recently selected Danielle as a NeuroArt winner. Her work was featured on the cover image of the November 2018 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience Research. Learn more here....

Best Oral Presentation Award at ICNANO

1st-year ChemE PhD student Ada Vernet received an award for the Best Oral Presentation at the 3rd Baltic Conference Series: International Conference on Nanomaterials & Nanotechnology (ICNANO) 2018.
Learn more here....

Alumni News

Mentoring Services for Students

Do you have questions about the various career paths in chemical engineering? Or are you an experienced alumni willing to help a student find their calling? The Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) and ChE department are here to help! We facilitate a 1-on-1 mentoring program with over 70 alumni participating. Learn more here...

Recent and Upcoming
Publications and Presentations

Publications:
Carbon Nanomaterials for Treating Osteoporotic Vertebral Fractures
By: de Carvalho, Jancineide Oliveira; Oliveira, Francilio de Carvalho; Pereira Freitas, Sergio Antonio; Webster, Thomas J.
CURRENT OSTEOPOROSIS REPORTS Volume: 16 Issue: 5 Pages: 626-634 Published: OCT 2018

Synthesis and characterization of PVP-coated tellurium nanorods and their antibacterial and anticancer properties
By: Brown, Christopher D.; Cruz, David M.; Roy, Amit K.; Webster, Thomas Jay
JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH Volume: 20 Issue: 9 Article Number: 254 Published: SEP 17 2018

Presentations:
"Biogenic synthesis of nanoparticles by bacterial and human cells: a manometric Trojan horse approach." Presented at the International Conference on Microbiome Engineering (2018) in Massachusetts, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences Annual Meeting (2018) in Washington and the IEEE Nanotechnology Symposium (2018) in New York. By: David M.Cruz.

"Aloe Vera-mediated synthesis of tellurium nano materials for biomedical applications." Presented at BMES (2018) in Georgia. By: David M. Cruz.

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