News: Faculty

Jerelle Joseph joins the faculty in search of simpler models for complex cell structures
Jan. 1, 2023

Jerelle Joseph, an expert on the organization of compartments within biological cells, has joined the department of chemical and biological engineering as an assistant professor, effective Jan. 16, 2023.

How do you treat untreatable infections? Do what the microbes do.
Dec. 15, 2022

In a discovery with implications for the drug-resistance crisis, Princeton Engineering researchers have isolated a compound that kills bacteria that can cause incurable infections.

Robert Prud'homme wins AIChE nanoscience award for widely adopted drug mixing process
Nov. 14, 2022

Robert K. Prud’homme has received the 2022 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award from the American Institute for Chemical Engineers, recognizing his bedrock mixing technique called flash nanoprecipitation. The approach has been adopted globally to produce treatments for malaria, tuberculosis, cancer, diabetes, COVID-19 and many other conditions.

Leading polymer scientist Rodney Priestley named AIChE "eminent" chemical engineer
Nov. 14, 2022

Polymer expert Rodney Priestley has been awarded the 2022 Eminent Chemical Engineers Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Minority Affairs Committee.

Living matter expert Sujit Datta wins APS award for illuminating bacterial dynamics
Nov. 2, 2022

The award recognizes Datta’s work illuminating bacterial dynamics and organization, and “for inspiring the community to engage with these complex systems.” As part of the award,…