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Chemical engineering

Rebecca Schulman
Faculty honors
Rebecca Schulman receives NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award
Published Nov 3, 2025
The award supports Schulman's efforts to create a programmable language for biomaterials that can bring us closer to making lab-grown organs and tissues
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Chemical+electrical engineering
New methods for smaller microchips
Published Sept 12, 2025
New materials and a novel process could aid efforts to develop smaller, faster, and affordable microchips to power a range of modern electronics
Denis Wirtz in his lab
Research matters
Deadly cancer behaviors deciphered
Published April 22, 2025
Engineer Denis Wirtz and colleagues are using artificial intelligence and multiscale imaging to reveal how tumors grow, spread, and vary across populations
Yayuan Liu
Faculty honors
Yayuan Liu wins Packard Fellowship
Published Oct 17, 2023
The prestigious fellowship supports creative and innovative lines of research by early career scientists
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35 under 35
Hopkins engineer named to MIT innovator list
Published Sept 15, 2023
Yayuan Liu recognized for her work creating carbon-capture devices
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Electrochemistry
Power struggle: shedding light on why batteries degrade
Published July 12, 2023
What makes batteries lose their effectiveness? Yayuan Liu is turning to electrochemistry for the answer
Anastasia Georgiou, center, and her Merck KGaA Innovation Cup teammates in Darmstadt, Germany
Graduate student honors
PhD student's team wins top prize at Merck KGaA Innovation Cup
Published July 12, 2023
Whiting School doctoral student Anastasia Georgiou and her teammates from all over the world developed a winning concept and business plan
self-assembling gel
Brain cancer
This gel stops brain tumors in mice. Could it offer hope for humans?
Published April 24, 2023 Video
The gel can reach areas that surgery might miss and current drugs struggle to reach to kill lingering cancer cells and suppress tumor growth
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Student Success
Stuck on Tastee Tape
Published Nov 10, 2022 Video
When four Hopkins students presented their Design Day product, they didn't expect the media to pick it up and give it viral attention. Months later, the students are alumnae, and the future of the product is bright.
A central blue ball supported by three ball-feet representing the single nitrogen molecule and three hydrogen molecules that combine to create ammonia
Sustainability
Ammonia may unlock secrets to cleaner, greener energy
Published Oct 14, 2022
Research effort led by Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Michael Tsapatsis aims to test ammonia's potential as a liquid storage medium