CBE News and Events

The 2017 Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer Gordon Conference took place in Galveston, TX from January 8 - 13. This year's Chair is Evelyn Wang. Vice Chairs are Joel Plawsky and Jungho Kim.
Institute Professor, Georges Belfort, was honored at the 2016 American Institute for Chemical Engineer’s (AIChE) meeting in San Francisco California.
The NYSP2I (New York State Pollution and Prevention Institute) R&D Student Competition enables students to propose, research, and design solutions to environmental challenges.
David Eckhardt! An RPI Alumnus wins the prestigious AIChE F.J. & Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award for Service to the Institute.
The Howard Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering would like to congratulate Dr. Mattheos Koffas and his new, exciting role as Editor for the journal "Biotechnology Advances"!

Institute News

This year, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers will begin work on a radically new approach to treating and preventing genetic diseases such as Alzheimer’s.It’s thanks to a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s TARGETED Challenge, which funds scientific research on ways to deliver gene editing tools directly to cells in the human body. 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Hudson Valley Community College have welcomed the inaugural class of RPI-HVCC Semiconductor Scholars. Funded by the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, the Scholars program is one of many efforts in the Capital Region and around the country to prepare more students to enter the semiconductor industry. 
The RPI team is working toward a big dream: a rocket that reaches well beyond the Kármán Line — the point 330,000 feet above sea level that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere and the beginning of outer space.
The RPI team is working toward a big dream: a rocket that reaches well beyond the Kármán Line — the point 330,000 feet above sea level that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere and the beginning of outer space.
The RPI team is working toward a big dream: a rocket that reaches well beyond the Kármán Line — the point 330,000 feet above sea level that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere and the beginning of outer space.

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