News
Apr 24, 2023
$3.4M NIH Grant To Discover RNA Modification Sites Using Pseudouridine Modified mRNA
BioE Assistant Professor Sara Rouhanifard was awarded a $3.4 million NIH R01 grant for “Synthetic mRNA Control Set for Nanopore-Based Pseudouridine Modification Profiling in Human Transcriptomes.” The research has the potential to vastly increase insight into the epitranscriptome—changes in chemical modifications of RNA that can affect gene expression within cells—which could help identify new therapeutic targets and lead to new classes of drugs.
Apr 24, 2023
NIH $1.96M MIRA R35 Award To Battle Against Antibiotic Resistance
Elizabeth Libby, assistant professor of bioengineering, recently received a five-year, $1.96 million Early Stage Investigator R35 MIRA (Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award) grant from the National Institutes of Health for “Physiological and Developmental Role of Bacterial Ser/Thr Kinases.” Libby’s research is focused on how bacteria develop resistance at the cellular level—knowledge that will be crucial to the development of more effective antibiotics.
Apr 20, 2023
2023 Capstone Projects
The engineering departments hosted a series of poster sessions and presentations featuring capstone projects completed by our engineering seniors.
Apr 20, 2023
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship
Brett Emery, PhD’28, mechanical engineering, advised by Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton, was awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship.
Apr 20, 2023
2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Experiential Learning
Saeed Alborzi, PhD’24, mechanical engineering, and Nathaniel Hanson, PhD’24, computer engineering, are recipients of the 2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Experiential Learning, which recognizes graduate students who have shown an extraordinary capacity to integrate academics and professional work and establish themselves as emerging leaders in their field.
Apr 20, 2023
2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Humanics
Katharine Lee, MS’24, data analytics engineering, received the 2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Humanics, which recognizes graduate students who, through their education, have integrated human literacy with data and technology in their learning or research.
Apr 20, 2023
2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research
Ryan Jamieson, PhD’23, bioengineering, received the 2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research, which recognizes those that have shown an exceptional ability to conduct high-level research and make contributions to the scholarly literature in their fields.
Apr 20, 2023
Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Teaching
Ronodeep Mitra, PhD’23, chemical engineering, is the recipient of a 2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Teaching, which recognizes those that have demonstrated an exceptional ability to communicate ideas and concepts in the classroom and a talent for inspiring students.