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First in-person Class Day ceremony in 3 years honors resilient Class of 2022

Princeton CBE honored its 33 graduating seniors in a Class Day ceremony on Monday, May 23 — held in person and on campus for the first time in three years — conferring honors and awards for outstanding academic achievement.

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Graduate commencement returns after hiatus to celebrate the scholarly achievements of 26 doctoral and 7 master's students

Princeton CBE held its second-ever graduate commencement reception on Monday, May 23, celebrating the 26 doctoral students and seven master’s students who earned graduate degrees over the past year. Christopher Browne won the department's Jui Dasgupta Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award.

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Research into biofuels and antibacterial resistance power two CBE faculty promotions

Princeton CBE has promoted Mark Brynildsen to professor of chemical and biological engineering and José Avalos to associate professor of chemical and biological engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, effective July 1.

Three CBE graduate students honored for outstanding teaching

The Graduate School presented three CBE graduate students with its annual Teaching Awards in recognition of their outstanding abilities as teachers. Katelyn Randazzo was honored with the Quin Morton Graduate Teaching Award.

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Mark Brynildsen recognized for excellence in mentoring graduate students

Mark Brynildsen was named one of four recipients of the 2022 Graduate Mentoring Awards by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning. The awarees will be honored during the Graduate School’s Hooding ceremony at 4:30 p.m. Monday, May 23.

A faculty member since 2010, Mark Brynildsen studies the interactions between pathogens and hosts…

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Molecular modeling expert Michael Webb has received a junior faculty award for excellence in research and teaching

The School of Engineering and Applied Science has honored molecular modeling expert Michael Webb for early-career excellence in research and teaching. He is one of six assistant professors to receive a junior faculty award this year. Each recipient will receive $50,000 to support their research.

Honorific fellowships fund research into aging cells and targeted cancer therapies

Princeton’s Graduate School has selected two CBE graduate students for honorific fellowships in the 2022-2023 academic year. Li Cao won a Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship; Bernardo Gouveia won a Wallace Memorial Fellowship in Engineering.

Dreyfus Foundation selects “squishy” engineer Sujit Datta for a teacher-scholar award

Sujit Datta has been named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar for “the dynamics of soft and living matter in complex environments.”

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Our COVID vaccines would not exist without this unsung Princeton technology

For 20 years, researchers in Robert Prud’homme’s lab have fine-tuned a technology that has revolutionized drug manufacturing, enabling everything from mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines to malaria drugs. The life-saving molecules that treat those diseases are fragile, and they must survive an epic voyage from a lab bench, through the supply chain, into a blood cell. Encapsulation gives them a secure vehicle and a final heading. It’s a delicate craft backed by complex mathematics, and over the arc of his career, Prud’homme has become a master craftsman.

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Health, environment and imaging are focus of this year’s Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund grants

Sujit Datta and Emily Davidson will co-lead a team receiving funding from the Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund. The project aims to reduce urban flooding by developing a new concrete-like material that absorbs rainwater and then releases it slowly back to the environment.

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