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Congratulations to Wayne Bequette for receiving the 2026 CAST Distinguished Service Award!
Prof. Ji-Young Kim has been selected by the U.S. Chapter of the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) as the recipient of the KIChE President Young Investigator Award. As a recipient of this award, she will be invited to present a research talk at the KIChE Open Forum during the 2026 AIChE Annual Meeting.
Prof. Helen Zha’s research group works to innovate new bio-inspired materials and processes that meet demands of the our modern day society while being environmentally benign from cradle to grave. Learn more about her research interests, as well as the important role that graduate and undergraduate students play in her group: https://youtu.be/Co5PL4-UFLA?si=mcyLhGZmRdXZwOJ9
The graduation banquet for the CBE Class of 2026 and graduate students was held on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. Families, faculty, and staff gathered to celebrate perseverance, growth, and the promise of new beginnings for our recent graduates.
At the banquet, the following prize winners were announced:
The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is proud to announce that Professor Mattheos Koffas has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) — one of the highest honors the Institute bestows, reserved for members who have made outstanding, sustained contributions to the chemical engineering profession.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and the Korea Technology and Information Promotion Agency for SMEs (TIPA), an organization that supports small and medium enterprises through technological innovation, have announced a strategic partnership to collaborate on industrial technology development.
Professor Todd Przybycien, Ph.D., head of RPI’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been awarded a $3.1 million share of a Gates Foundation Global Grand Challenge grant to advance exceptionally low-cost monoclonal antibody (mAb) manufacturing.
Todd Przybycien, Ph.D., professor of chemical and biological engineering at RPI, has been named head of RPI’s Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE). Under Przybycien’s leadership, the department will continue to drive innovation in sustainable biopharmaceutical manufacturing, metabolic and enzyme engineering, advanced materials development, transport processes, and process systems engineering.
RPI School of Engineering has named R. Helen Zha, Ph.D., as a Dean’s Faculty Fellow, recognizing her exceptional accomplishments in research, education, and service.
The Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, in partnership with the School of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), is proud to announce Mattheos Koffas, Ph.D., as the recipient of the inaugural Feltham ReEqu