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We are excited to share that Danielle Tullman-Ercek will serve as our new Department Chair, effective September 1st! She succeeds Justin Notestein, who has been named the McCormick School of Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Education.
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Northwestern Chemical & Biological Engineering retweeted
Lithium needs water. A lot of it.
Professor @Jennifer_M_Dunn found most proposed US mining sites may not have enough—and shortages could intensify.
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ALT Lithium needs water. A lot of it.\n\nProfessor Jennifer Dunn found most proposed US mining sites may not have enough\u2014and shortages could intensify.
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Northwestern Chemical & Biological Engineering retweeted
From graphite to lithium, the materials behind modern life come with supply chain and environmental challenges.
Northwestern engineers are exploring new ways to recover, prepare, and responsibly source the minerals that power everyday technology.
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ALT From graphite to lithium, the materials behind modern life come with supply chain and environmental challenges. \n\nNorthwestern engineers are exploring new ways to recover, prepare, and responsibly source the minerals that power everyday technology.
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Huge congrats to Xiaoyi Zhang (@RandallSnurr lab) and Lauren Oleksy (@dayne_swearer lab) on being named 2026 Ryan Fellows!
The Ryan fellowship is one of Northwestern's most prestigious awards, made possible by the generous donation from Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan.
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Congrats to Dr. Filip Formalik (@RandallSnurr lab) on receiving special recognition for his presentation at the MOF 2026 conference last week!
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Congrats to first year PhD student Saachi Dalvi (Lucks lab) on recently winning an NSF-GRFP fellowship!
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Huge congrats to @RichardsLabNU!
Professor Jeffrey Richards has won the Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award from the @SoRheology. His work explores how soft materials behave and how those properties can improve energy technologies.
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Congrats to Willow Kowalik (BS 2026) on being named the inaugural winner of the CHEMCAD Student Competition sponsored by Datacor held in conjunction with the AIChE Midwest Regional Conference 2026!
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Friendly reminder that our PhD application deadline is this Monday, December 1st! We will accept applications until 11:59pm on Monday.
You can find our application and frequently asked admissions questions here: mccormick.northwestern.edu/c…
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Congrats to Justin Notestein on recently being named a 2025 recipient of the Masahiro and Eiko Meshii Award that honors faculty members for excellence in design education!
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Northwestern Chemical & Biological Engineering retweeted
Welcome to Krishna @shrinivaslab of @nu_chbe for today’s Phase Group meeting! He is discussing design of dynamic biomolecular ensembles 🔬
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Thanks to everyone who attended our 19th Annual Richard S.H. Mah Lecture series and reception with guest speaker David Sholl from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory!
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9 Oct 2025
Wastewater treatment plants emit far more methane and nitrous oxide than previously thought. Professor Jennifer Dunn found ways to cut these emissions cheaply—advancing climate goals and cleaner water systems worldwide.
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ALT Wastewater treatment plants emit far more methane and nitrous oxide than previously thought. Professor Jennifer Dunn found ways to cut these emissions cheaply—advancing climate goals and cleaner water systems worldwide.
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7 Oct 2025
A research team with Professor Krishna Shrinivas developed a machine learning framework to design flexible proteins that don’t fold into a fixed shape.
The approach could enable new therapies and synthetic biology breakthroughs.
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ALT A research team with Professor Krishna Shrinivas developed a machine learning framework to design flexible proteins that don’t fold into a fixed shape. The approach could enable new therapies and synthetic biology breakthroughs.
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23 Oct 2025
🎉 Northwestern’s Center for Synthetic Biology is celebrating 10 years of innovation, collaboration, and impact! From reprogramming biology to launching startups, CSB has transformed ideas into breakthroughs. Join us for a year of celebration ➡️ tinyurl.com/4mvuudce
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Northwestern Chemical & Biological Engineering retweeted
10 Oct 2025
Thrilled to share our latest in @NatComputSci !
Led by the fantastic @RyanKrue collab with @BrennerGroup1 — we introduce a framework to design intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) from physics-based simulations.
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Congratulations to all our 2025 student award winners!
Distinguished Graduate Researcher Awards: Courtney Smoljan, Meagan Olsen (R/U) & Dylan Brown (R/U)
Distinguished Trainee Service Awards: Sapna Ramesh & Hongjun Park
TA Awards: Dachey Lin (ChE 421) & Kevin Yao (ChE 210)
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The department reunited at Camp Cheebie for their annual retreat to kick off the school year! We heard presentations from Distinguished Graduate Researchers and new faculty, tie-dyed t-shirts, faced off in field games, and ended the day with s'mores at the lakeside fire pit.
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23 Sep 2025
A few highlights from our 2nd Annual CSB Open House. We're grateful for the energy and curiosity of the 85 attendees who stopped by to learn more about our center and faculty research. Here's to future collaboration!
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8 Sep 2025
Northwestern Engineering’s Jeffrey Lopez is one of five recipients of a 2025-26 Electrochemical Society (ECS) Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for innovative projects in green energy technology.
Congrats, Jeff!
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ALT Northwestern Engineering’s Jeffrey Lopez is one of five recipients of a 2025-26 Electrochemical Society (ECS) Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for innovative projects in green energy technology. Congrats, Jeff!
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