ChBE Department Updates - Fall 2016

Department Updates Fall 2016

Letter from the Chair: ChBE Moving the Best Ideas from the Lab to the World

As the new department chair, Professor Charles Musgrave has his sights set on catapulting the department into the next era of research and teaching excellence.

Class Notes

Michael Detamore (ChemEngr ’00) has been named founding director of the new Peggy and Charles Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. The School of Biomedical Engineering welcomed its first class of students this fall and plans to hire several endowed professors, award Stephenson Graduate Fellowships, and open a new academic building.

Amy Kramer (ChemEngr ’06) was named among the American Bar Association’s “Top 40 Young Lawyers” for 2016. Kramer earned a BS in chemical engineering and a JD from CU Boulder and works for Greenberg Traurig in Denver, specializing in intellectual property disputes involving patents, trademarks and copyrights.

Honors & Awards

Associate Professor Stephanie Bryant and Assistant Professor Joel Kaar earned the Provost's Faculty Achievement Awards for 2016. Of the 10 awards granted campuswide this fall, five went to engineering faculty, and ChBE was the only department to have more than one recipient.

Professor Chris Bowman won the Dean’s Performance Award for Outstanding Teaching, and Professor Dan Schwartz won the Dean’s Performance Award for Outstanding Research.

The National Academy of Engineering has invited Assistant Professor Andrew Goodwin to participate as one of only 100 engineers in its 2016 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium on Sept. 19-21 in Irvine, Calif.

Associate Professor Hendrik Heinz was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a professional society based in the United Kingdom that works to advance the chemical sciences.

Adrianne Rosales, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kristi Anseth’s research group, is one of 10 scientists to receive Career Awards at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Rosales joined the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in chemical engineering this semester.

PhD student Tariq Jamil earned the "Best Poster" award at the 5th World Congress on Materials Science & Engineering, held June 13-15 in Alicante, Spain. Jamil is a member of Professor Hendrik Heinz's research group.

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