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Materials expert Michael Webb wins ACS award for computational chemistry

Computational materials and modeling expert Michael Webb has won an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in computational chemistry from the American Chemical Society (ACS), recognizing his efforts to combine machine learning and molecular simulation to discover new materials.

Graduate student Austin Booth receives DOE fellowship to study water-energy nexus

A total of 62 Ph.D. students from 24 states were selected for the program, according to the DOE announcement.

“The Department of Energy is committed to supporting and growing America's science and…

Kussainova and Tjo win Princeton Engineering Awards for Excellence

“Vice Dean Antoine Kahn and I are delighted to honor these graduate students who have excelled in every dimension — classes, research, teaching and leadership — during their time at Princeton,” said Dean Andrea Goldsmith. “These scholars have greatly advanced knowledge in their fields and are poised to have an even greater positive impact as…

Maravelias receives AIChE award for sustainable engineering

Maravelias, the Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment and chair of chemical and biological engineering, studies how the many aspects of energy production and distribution fit together…

Panagiotopoulos wins AIChE's 2024 Alpha Chi Sigma Award

Athanassios Panagiotopoulos has won the 2024 Alpha Chi Sigma Award from the American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE), one of the field’s top honors. 

Researchers bend DNA strands with light, revealing a new way to study the genome

Scientists have long debated the physics of chromosomes — structures at the deepest interior of a cell that are made of long DNA strands tightly coiled around millions of proteins. A Princeton team has found an answer, and it could be the key to a new way of manipulating genes.

Caroline Zhao, Class of 2025, honored at Opening Exercises

Princeton University celebrated the academic accomplishments of its students with the awarding of undergraduate prizes to six students at Opening Exercises on Sunday, Sept. 1. Caroline Zhao, a senior majoring in chemical and biological engineering, shared the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize for exceptional academic achievement during her junior year.

Computational bioengineering expert Jerelle Joseph wins NIH award

Jerelle Joseph, an expert in computational biophysics and bioengineering, has won a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, supporting her efforts to understand key molecular structures within living cells.

Celebrated pharmaceutical leader Jean Tom joins Princeton faculty

Tom recently retired as the Executive Director of Development Engineering, Chemical Process Development at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), where she worked for 18 years. Prior to her tenure at BMS, she spent two decades at Merck, where she led research labs and pilot plants focused on innovative small molecule drug manufacturing.

With nearly…

Transforming troublesome seaweed into a feedstock of the future

Known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, the leviathan — visible from space — has wreaked havoc on environments and economies throughout the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, where unprecedented quantities of seaweed routinely break away from the mat, wash ashore, and decay. In 2018 alone, attempts to clean up the errant seaweed from beaches…