Departmental News and Highlights

Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie has been named the 2013 Kenneth E. Avis Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. This Distinguished Professorship has been awarded to many top scientists and engineers over the years, including Bob Langer from MIT. Dr. Guiseppi-Elie was selected for this award for his work on biologically responsive release devices. Congratulations!  Click for more........

On February 13th, the ChBE Graduate students held their first annual Research Symposium at the Madren Center. This symposium allowed our graduate students to share their research projects with their peers and faculty members, at the same time giving them valuable presentation experience. Our department was honored to have Dr. Ronald Rousseau as the keynote speaker at this event. Dr. Rousseau holds the Cecil J. “Pete” Silas Endowed Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is the chair of the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering there. Dr. Rousseau is co-author of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, a textbook used internationally and by more than 80% of the chemical engineering programs in the United States.   Click for more........

Prof. Mark Thies is the recipient of a three-year grant sponsored by the National Science Foundation entitled “GOALI: Low-Ash Lignin Biofuel from Black-Liquor Streams.” This GOALI grant (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) is in collaboration with Liquid Lignin Company. The research team has discovered that lignin can be precipitated from paper-mill black liquor in the form of a nonviscous, easy-to-process liquid; the SLRP process is being developed based on this discovery.  Click for more........

Fall 2012 Newsletter
Message from the Chair:
Dear Alumni and Friends of the Department:  Which course(s)did you find to be most valuable during your time at Clemson? When I ask this question of the alumni from the undergraduate program, invariably the answer is the unit operations laboratories plus the senior-level capstone design course because of the open-endedness of the assignments.
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Prof. Mark Roberts, along with Prof. Apparao M. Rao (Physics, Clemson) and Prof. Prabhakar Bandaru (Mechanical Engineering, UCSD), recently received $1.2 Million from the National Science Foundation to study “Defect-engineered Nanocarbons for Electrochemical Energy Storage”. The primary objective of their research grant is to develop high-energy-density carbon materials with nanometer dimensions using continuous and scalable fabrication methods, such as roll-to-roll processing.  Click for more........

Faculty position: The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Clemson University invites applications for an opening at the level of Assistant Professor or higher, commensurate with the candidate’s experience and level of achievement. Individuals with outstanding potential and scholarly interests in modern Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering are sought. All research areas will be considered. Please see the attached document for qualification requirements, resume filing instructions, and deadlines.  Click for more information ....

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is pleased to announce that Departmental Honors Research Grants have been awarded to four ChBE students: J.T. Helms, Alexandra Kleven, Hanna Aucoin, and Anthony D’Amato. These competitive grants are provided by the Calhoun Honors College to support their undergraduate honors research over the next year. Congratulations to our Honors Students for their successful proposals!!  Click for more........

Dr. Scott Husson has been selected as one of the Most Cited Authors of the Journal of Membrane Science. Dr. Husson was cited for his article on Stimuli-Responsive Membranes, which contributed significantly to the increased 2011 Impact Factor. Congratulations on this well-deserved award!! For more information, please follow these links:

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-membrane-science/journal-news/congratulations-to-our-most-cited-authors-memsci/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376738810002772

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Blenner has joined the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering this Fall as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Blenner received his B.S. degree from Manhattan College, and his M.S. and Ph. D. from Columbia University, all degrees in Chemical Engineering. Prior to joining Clemson University, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School and the Immune Disease Institute at Boston Children’s Hospital.  Click for more........

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Senior, Ben Murphy, is the youngest man to complete the Florida Double Iron Triathlon race this past spring after swimming 4.8 miles, biking 224 miles, and running 52.4 miles.  Click for more........

Daniel Wandera named winner of 2012 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award. We are pleased to announce that our graduate student, Daniel Wandera, was recently named the winner of a 2012 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award.  Click for more........