May 2013 | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Dr David Söderberg Technology Management in a large integrated Oil Company | |
April 2013 | |
| Industry Engagement Forum Encouraging early-career University researchers to connect with industry and better understand commercial imperatives | |
| Salters' prize for Clementine Chambon Clementine Chambon awarded one of this year's Graduate prizes from The Salters' Institute of Industrial Chemistry. | |
| Welcome to Alexei Lapkin New Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering | |
| Best poster prize for Filipa Gonçalves de Azevedo Chemical Engineering Day UK conference, | |
| Marijke Fagan takes her science to Parliament SET for Britain | |
| Cambridge – China Course on Biomanufacturing Prof Nigel Slater visited the Tianjin Joint Academy of Biotechnology and Medicine | |
March 2013 | |
| MBE Student is Victorious against Oxford’s Captain in Varsity Boxing Xiaofeng Li scores victory for the home team | |
| Photography competition winners First place: Powder of rocks by Jan-Georg Rosenboom; Second place: A microbe friendly colloidosome by Polly Keen | |
| Web engineers win £1m QEPrize Prof Lynn Gladden one of the international judges | |
| 2013 BRSG-NMR DG Annual Prize won by Dr Jonathan Mitchell Congratulations to Dr Jonathan Mitchell at the MRRC for winning the 2013 BRSG-NMR DG Annual Prize. | |
| Research project winners Akshay Deshmukh, Ke Xu Zhou, James Perry, Zsigmond Varga, Clementine Chambon, Aylwin Low, Marina Steketee and Charmaine Law | |
| Catering team get top marks Food hygiene grade 5 | |
February 2013 | |
| The biology of ageing Renewed grant for research on the biology of ageing | |
| Plumes with chemical reaction New paper in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics | |
| New insights into the mechanisms of malaria infection Collaborative research between Physiologists, Physicists and Chemical Engineers sheds new insights into the mechanisms of malaria infection | |
| Danckwerts-Pergamon Prize for Patrick Gordon Best thesis of 2012 | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Trevor Hill Multiphase flow in oil and gas production | |
January 2013 | |
| Paste, Particle and Polymer Processing Group (P4G) New research group just formed | |
| New book, "Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging" Co-edited by Axel Zeitler | |
| Chemical looping combustion Paper published in Energy & Environmental Science | |
| Cameron Rennie Serving with the Royal Auxiliary Air Force | |
| CEB Focus Newsletter New CEB Focus newletter now out | |
| University Lectureship for Eric Rees University Lectureship in Chemical Engineering | |
| Happy New Year! Happy New Year to all friends of the department | |
December 2012 | |
| Long Service Award Congratulations to Lee Pratt | |
| Photo Competition Returns Imagine an image........ | |
| CEB researchers invited to present at Saudi-Japan symposium Catalysts in Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals, KFUPM, Dharhan, Saudi Arabia. | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Simon Fox Designing in Sustainability | |
November 2012 | |
| STIMULUS Working with pupils in local schools | |
| A tenth of quirky creature’s active genes are foreign Paper published on PLoS Genetics by Chiara Boschetti and Alan Tunnacliffe | |
| Prize for Patrick Gordon Hygienic Study Award 2012 | |
October 2012 | |
| Scholarship for Parama Ghoshal Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarship | |
| Management award for Roz Williams Institute of Leadership and Management level 3 certificate | |
| CEB Focus Newsletter Issue 7 out now | |
| New academic year Start of Michaelmas term 2012 | |
September 2012 | |
| Award for Jonathan Mitchell Giulio Cesare Borgia Prize 2012, Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media | |
| Visit to Ukraine Promising areas of cooperation | |
| Farewell to James Mcgregor Dr James McGregor to take up lectureship at Sheffield | |
| Best paper at ISB 2012 Best Paper at Sixth IEEE International Conference on Systems Biology | |
August 2012 | |
| Continuous Optimization in Chile Dr Vassiliadis, Visiting Professor in Chile | |
| Olympic volunteering Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka face-to-face with Olympians | |
| Danckwerts-Pergamon Prize for Markus Sander Best PhD thesis in 2011 | |
| Charity skydive Manny Kemp jumps out of a plane for the National Autistic Society | |
| Among the best in the world Cambridge is among the best in the world for Chemical Engineering | |
July 2012 | |
| New CEB building gets go ahead Move to West Cambridge Site in 2015 | |
| Undergraduate prizewinners Vinayak Rajendran, Jamie Day, Zsigmond Varga, Joseph Lim, Sophie Duffield, Paul Hodgson, Michael Smith, Jun Yan Tan, Meichen Lu and Furen Zhuang | |
| Young Scientist Award for Carmine D'Agostino 15th International Conference on Catalysis | |
| Open Days Thursday 5 July and Friday 6 July 2012 | |
June 2012 | |
| General Admission 2012 Graduation ceremonies, June 2012 | |
| Professor John Dennis Congratulations on recent promotion | |
| Dr Rough wins Learning and Teaching Innovation funds Funds for "Getting the best out of a one year postgraduate taught Master's programme at Cambridge" | |
| Design Project Winners Akshay Deshmukh, James Perry, Pawel Jajesniak, Charles Macmillan, Donna Golach, Katherine Suddaby and Lutong Guo | |
May 2012 | |
| Postgraduate Prize Winners Ipshita Mandal, Jessica Ocampos Colina, Frieder Haenisch, Nicholas Tan, Nadia Tsao, Oliver Bartlett, Polly Keen, Mariana Domingos, Robert Pott and Marco Saucedo Martinez. | |
| Top University Number one for Chemical Engineering | |
| Reception for Dr Scott to thank David Scott for many years of excellent service as Director of Teaching | |
| Trinity Engineers Association Marijke Fagan and Amanda Talhat awarded prizes | |
| Danckwerts-Pergammon Prize for Anna Stephenson Best PhD thesis in 2010 | |
April 2012 | |
| Cambridge researchers awarded £100k to build 'super microscope' Funding from Alzheimer’s Research UK | |
| Director of Teaching Patrick Barrie is now Director of Teaching and Deputy Head of Department (Teaching). | |
| Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology in Singapore Collaborative research centre for energy efficient, low-carbon chemical process technology | |
March 2012 | |
| Industry Engagement Forum MedImmune at the new Industry Engagement Forum | |
| BRIC prizes for Nicholas Darton and Duncan Sharp Bioprocess Research Industry Club and BBSRC dissemination event | |
| Kilimanjaro Naomi Jones climbed Kilimanjaro for charity | |
| Eastern Rhapsody Cambridge University Chinese Orchestra Society (CUCOS) Annual Concert “Eastern Rhapsody” | |
| Research project winners Heng Ji Chan, Henry Chan, Calvin Cheung, Su Lyn Lee, Ritika Sood, Vinayak Rajendran, Jamie Day and Ilia Cherezov | |
February 2012 | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Nigel Hirst The Chemical Engineer as Entrepreneur | |
| Photography competition winners Wall-e by Baptiste Salley; Desiccated bacterial colonies on agar plate by Matt Watson | |
| Cambridge Rag Jailbreak 2012 36 hours. 136 teams. No money. Mission: Travel as far as you possibly can! | |
January 2012 | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Dr Deborah L. Grubbe Looking at Safety in NASA; Lessons to Learn | |
| New companies join Teaching Consortium Welcome to ABB and Granherne | |
| Most cited paper Top cited articles in the Green Chemistry Journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry | |
| Happy New Year! Happy New Year to all friends of the department | |
December 2011 | |
| PhD student prizewinners Fatma Isik Ustok, Wen Liu, Mariana Garcia Domingos, Jin Yang Lim, Jenny Versnel and William Menz | |
| Markus Kraft awarded CeNIDE Guest Professorship Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen Guest Professorship | |
November 2011 | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Dr Anthony Hyde Delivering Sustainable Development | |
| Photography competition relaunched Photography competition 2011 | |
| Scholarship for Su Shiung Lam Su Shiung Lam awarded Scholarship by A.T. Kearney and Falling Walls Foundation | |
| Presentation of Donald Medal to Howard Chase Award for outstanding services in biochemical engineering | |
October 2011 | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Dr Les Bolton The Process Engineering Challenges of Renewable Transport Fuels | |
| MA for Dr Peter Foreman Ceremony on 22 October 2011 | |
| Prize for Nuria Rodríguez TR35 prize for work on Calcium Looping Technology | |
| Farewell to Prof Mackley Professor Malcolm Mackley retired on 30 September | |
| Farewell to members of staff Best wishes to Surinder Sall, Sabine Deering, Linda Craft, Barrie Goddard and Phil Salway | |
| Seed Funding for CamStent Ltd Success for department spin out company | |
September 2011 | |
| Where There's Muck There's Brass Dr Ian Wilson gave a talk entitled "Where There's Muck There's Brass" as part of the Alumni Weekend | |
| Ssegawa Ssekintu Kiwanuka voted UK's most outstanding black student Ssegawa Ssekintu Kiwanuka has topped a list of the UK's most outstanding black students | |
| Mixing induced by multiphase plumes New work on predicting the behaviour of large-scale plumes, such as the BP oil plume and the Icelandic volcanic plume | |
| Dr Sarah Rough wins EPSRC Entrepreneurship Training Funds Essential Skills for Research Entrepreneurs - A Course for Chemical and Biochemical Engineers | |
| Environmentally friendly solutions for aquatic biofouling pests BioBullets in the news | |
| Research on Alzheimer's disease The Laser Analytics Group is working to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's disease. This is urgently required if new treatments are to be developed. | |
August 2011 | |
| Making the wasteland bloom New bio-fertilizer for contaminated land | |
| Award for Annie Spencer Student Volunteering Gold Award | |
| University Lectureship for Dr Daniel Holland University Lectureship in Sustainable Reaction Engineering | |
July 2011 | |
| Safety news Memberships of the Institute of Safety in Technology and Research and Managing Safely certificate | |
| National Recycling Awards winner Enval has won the prize for Best New Technology | |
| University Lectureships for Dr Sabine Bahn and Dr Graham Christie Promotions announced | |
| Manny Kemp completes Three Peaks Challenge Climbing to the tops of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowdon in 24 hours for KidsCan | |
| Class of 1962-72 alumni reunion Reunion held 8 July 2011 | |
| Award for Phillip Benedetti Best MBE dissertation | |
| Prize for Graziella El Khoury Journal of Molecular Recognition Year Travel Award | |
June 2011 | |
| Pilkington award for David Scott Dr David Scott awarded Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching | |
| Prize for Edward Ishiyama Best poster at the 9th International Conference on Heat Exchanger Fouling and Cleaning | |
| Agreement of Academic Exchange BUCT - CEB Visitors from Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) | |
| Design Project winners Helen Breewood, Henry Chan, Calvin Cheung, Vinayak Rajendran and Alexander Smith | |
| Promotions for Clemens Kaminski, Alan Tunnacliffe and Geoff Moggridge Personal chairs and readerships | |
| Class of 1982-92 Alumni Reunion Reunion held Friday 27 May 2011 | |
May 2011 | |
| Dow Prize for Robert Pott A Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge has been awarded to PhD student Robert Pott | |
| Donald Medal for Howard Chase Professor Chase awarded the Donald Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers | |
| Chemistry curbs spreading of carbon dioxide New research by Jeanne Therese Andres and Dr Silvana Cardoso | |
| CEB Focus Newsletter Issue 3 has just been released | |
April 2011 | |
| Graduate Conference prize winners 2011 Andrew Lynch, Jianing Qian, Jamie Walters, Jeanne Therese Andres, Alan Russell and Kat Yearsley | |
| Paris Marathon for Alzheimer's Research Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka completes Paris Marathon | |
| Among the best in the world Cambridge is second in the world for Chemical Engineering | |
| Tunnacliffe Lab Migrates to Pembroke Site Cell and Organism Engineering Group now on the New Museums Site | |
March 2011 | |
| New microwave method converts used motor oil into fuel a quick, efficient method for recycling automotive waste oil into fuel | |
| BBSRC Commercial Innovator 2011 Prof Chris Lowe awarded BBSRC Commercial Innovator 2011 | |
| So you think you can dance Science? Science Festival event featuring our students on Sunday | |
| Prizes for Andrew Lynch, Amit Mulji and Saquib Sultan John Rose Prize and Opera Solutions Case Study Competition | |
| Research project winners Yee Yen (Ian) Tang, Alan McCreanor, Wenting Hu, Adam Eales, Adam Morgan, Anand Ashok, Christopher Arnott, Jessica Brush, Wui Leng Heng, Daniel Tay, Olesya Nikiforova and Stanislaw Pstrokonski | |
| Farewell to Mike Johns Dr Mike Johns appointed to Chair in Perth, Australia | |
February 2011 | |
| Open house for Part 1A students Students find out about Chemical Engineering | |
| CGI U Outstanding Commitment Award for Stephen Gerrard Clinton Global Initiative University Outstanding Commitment Award for JustMilk - Preventing HIV Transmission in Breastfeeding | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Prof Raul Conejeros The Effects of Genetic Regulation on Metabolic Control | |
| Prizes for research students Winners: Mariana Domingos, Meenal Pore and Christine Schmaus. Runners up: Alastair Clarke, Wen Liu, Julian Jaros and Kyra Sedransk. | |
| ACES award winners Sabine Bahn, Chris Lowe, Carlos Ludlow and Howard Chase receive ACES awards | |
| Social Enterprise award for Shah Rukh Abbas £1K Challenge award for Social enterprise Venture "Khadija's Business Park" | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Dr Grant Campbell Breaking with tradition: Flour milling, breadmaking and biorefineries | |
January 2011 | |
| CEB Focus Newsletter Issue 2 of the newsletter has just been released | |
| CUCES finalists CUCES finalists for Best University Society, National Placement and Internship Awards | |
| OBE for Chris Lowe Professor Chris Lowe awarded an OBE for services to science | |
December 2010 | |
| IChemE visit Visit by IChemE President Dr Des King and Chief Executive Dr David Brown | |
| Prize for Krishnaa Mahbubani Krishnaa Mahbubani won the poster prize competition at the 7th Annual bioProcess UK conference | |
November 2010 | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Dr Darrin Disley Introducing X-MAN - The Model Cancer Patient | |
| Prize for Dr Nicholas Darton Best Poster Award at the 8th BBSRC-Bioprocessing Research Industry Conference | |
| Einstein Young Scholar award for Su Shiung Lam Su Shiung Lam attended the 2010 Falling Walls Science Conference on Future Breakthroughs in Science and Society as an Einstein Young Scholar | |
| IChemE awards for innovation and excellence 2010 Members of this department shortlisted. The ceremony was on 4 November 2010 in Manchester, UK | |
| Prize for Damien Vadillo Best poster competition at the Society of Rheology Meeting | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Chris Hodrien A Lifetime in Gas Industry Technology | |
October 2010 | |
| Preventing HIV transmission during breastfeeding Video showing how nipple shields may be able to prevent infant HIV infection when breastfeeding | |
| Newsletter launched CEB Focus, Issue 1, October 2010 | |
| Record Admissions to ACE Record admissions to M.Phil. in Advanced Chemical Engineering (ACE) course | |
| New Head of Department Professor Slater appointed new Head of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology | |
September 2010 | |
| Scentsory Design for Fashion and Lifestyle Cambridge Alumni Weekend | |
| PSSRC meeting Pharmaceutical Solid State Research Cluster Meeting at Cambridge | |
| Award for Marijke Fagan Poster prize at Magnetic Resonance and Porous Media 10 conference | |
| Top University Number one in the 2010 QS World University Rankings | |
| Opera, boxing and optical analytics Edinburgh Fringe success for Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka | |
| Outstanding charity work Manny Kemp awarded prize for his charity fundraising work | |
August 2010 | |
| Egerton Gold Medal for Allan Hayhurst Professor Allan Hayhurst has been awarded the Egerton Gold Medal of The Combustion Institute | |
| Farewell to Binjie Hu Teaching Fellow Binjie Hu is moving on | |
| Cambridge-BUCT 2010 Summer School Cambridge-BUCT 2010 Summer Academics and Students Visiting Program | |
| Best Paper Award at REV 2010 Award for Roger Watson, Andreas Braumann and Markus Kraft | |
| Prize for Jamie Walters Jamie Walters wins prize at Analytical Research Forum 2010 | |
July 2010 | |
| Award for Carmine D'Agostino Award for best UK poster at Japan-UK Symposium: Catalysis for a Sustainable World | |
| Undergraduate prizewinners Manny Kemp, Oluwadara Olufon, Karen Sim, Vinayak Rajendran, James Rickenbach, Heng Ji Chan, Alessandria Goh, Alexander Smith, Helen Breewood and Ritika Sood | |
| Awards at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress Outstanding Oral Award and AEI 2010 Tech Award for Amit Bhave | |
June 2010 | |
| Seminar Day 2010 Seminar day for Biotech themed students | |
| CamBridgeSens Awards CamBridgeSens innovation competition - latest round winners | |
| Danckwerts-Pergamon Prize for Sariah Khormaee Dr Sariah Khormaee has won the Department's 2009 Danckwerts-Pergamon Prize | |
| RAE Prince Philip Medal for John Davidson Prof John Davidson recognised for exceptional contribution to engineering | |
| Design Project winners Karen Sim, Christopher Arnott, Nazneen Molu, Iain Cheetham, Stanislaw Pstrokonski, Chao (Ivy) Liu, Edward Thien and Mishu Heatman | |
May 2010 | |
| Chemical Engineering Class of 1960 reunion Members of the class of 1960 returned to celebrate 50 years since they graduated | |
| Outstanding charity work Manny Kemp nominated for award for charity work | |
| Award for Soren Demin Ronald Belcher Award for Soren Demin | |
| Best Business Idea CEB Researchers win "Best Business Idea" at the NACUE Ventures Academy | |
| Prize for Edward Ishiyama Prize for best paper at the AIChE spring meeting | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Teresa Belmar Dr Teresa Belmar spoke on "The Challenges of manufacturing closer to the consumer" | |
April 2010 | |
| Salters' prize for Christina Karapataki Christina Karapataki awarded one of this year's Graduate prizes from The Salters' Institute of Industrial Chemistry. | |
| Video: Just add water Rotifers are tiny animals that survive against all the odds. | |
| Golnaz Borghei and Laurence McGlashan: best graduate research presentations Winners of the prize for best graduate research presentation at the Graduate Conference | |
March 2010 | |
| CamBridgeSens Awards CamBridgeSens Awards £75K to enable cutting edge sensor research in the University of Cambridge | |
| CUE business competition finalists Christina Karapataki and Peter Roth reach the finals | |
| Chemical Engineers clinch Varsity Boxing win for Cambridge Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka and Bart Dear put Cambridge in the lead | |
| Gates Scholars New Gates Cambridge Scholars | |
| Research project winners The winners were Rosemary Anthony, Chrissie Rowan, Naomi Jones, Peter Roth, Christina Karapataki, Vincent Lister and Claire Lucas | |
| Alumni Speaker Series - Tony Gillham Alumnus Dr Tony Gillham spoke of his career in the Chemical Engineering industry | |
February 2010 | |
| Real time measurements with terahertz sensor technology TeraView, Oystar Manesty, Liverpool University and Cambridge University demonstrate real time tablet thickness measurement | |
| NPower Energy Challenge 2010 Undergraduates through to final: NPower Energy Challenge 2010 | |
| New book from Alex Routh New book: Fundamentals of Latex Film Formation: Processes and Properties | |
| Chemical Engineer captains University Challenge team Girton team live to fight another day | |
| Enval opens new facility in Luton Value from Waste: Enval cuts the ribbon on a new engineering facility dedicated to showcasing its revolutionary technology | |
| Biosensors Alumni Speaker Series talk: The Potential of an Integrated Biosensor System | |
January 2010 | |
| BioBullets Environmentally sound control for invading mussels attracts funding | |
| Howard Chase: Head of the School of Technology Howard Chase has been appointed as the new Head of the School of Technology | |
December 2009 | |
| Donald Medal for Nigel Slater Professor Nigel Slater awarded the Donald Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers | |
| Christmas Festivities We wish you a Merry Christmas and a peaceful new year | |
| Alex Routh awarded McBain medal for 2010 Alex Routh has been awarded the McBain medal for 2010 | |
| bioProcessUK prize for Alexander Edwards Dr Alexander Edwards won a poster prize at the Annual bioProcessUK Conference | |
November 2009 | |
| Alumni Speaker Series Chris McDonald spoke on "Innovation in the Global Steel Industry" | |
| Ben Taylor on Algaetecture Ben Taylor describes how algae can be used to generate energy for a household | |
| Winning entries in the £100 for 100 word contest Members of the department have great success in CUE competition | |
| Professor Raul Conejeros Alumni news: Raul Conejeros has been promoted to a full professorship | |
| GBP 5M award for Alzheimer's disease research The Laser Analytics Group is part of the Cambridge team awarded £5M for Alzheimer's disease research | |
| Prizes for research students Shraddha Shekar, Patrick Gordon, Golnaz Borghei, Theodoros Koutroukides and Andrew Lynch win | |
October 2009 | |
| Alumni Speaker Series Launch Peter Davidson launched the Alumni Speaker Series with a talk on Innovation, Governance and Capability | |
| Professor Lynn Gladden: Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research Professor Lynn Gladden CBE, FRS, FREng has been appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research | |
| Best Poster Presentation for Nicholas Darton First Prize for the 'Best Poster Presentation' Award at the 6th BBSRC-Bioprocessing Research Industry Club conference | |
| Welcome to all our new students At the start of a new term and new academic year, we welcome new students | |
September 2009 | |
| International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy Members of the Magnetic Resonance group attended the 10th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (ICMRM) in Montana | |
| Cambridge Alumni Weekend Talk by Professor John Davidson, Friday 25 September 2009, 4pm | |
| CamBridgeSens Innovation Competition Winners The winners are Dr Rongjun Chen, Dr Claudia Loechel, Mr Vincent Ho and Dr Matthias Ediger | |
| 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE8) WCCE8 took place in Montréal, Canada in August and was attended by members of the department | |
August 2009 | |
| EEDA awards The Department has been awarded two studentships by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) for 2009. | |
| Biomagnetic Sensing Workshop Biomagnetic Sensing Workshop with CamBridgeSens, Friday 25th September 2009 at the William Gates building | |
July 2009 | |
| Dr Markus Kraft and Dr Robert Patterson receive the Ricardo award During the Institute of Physics' meeting on "Combustion Theory and Modelling", Drs Kraft and Patterson received the award for best UK paper in 2007 | |
| Su Shiung Lam chosen to meet Nobel Prize Winners Su Shiung Lam participated in the meeting of Nobel Prize Winners with young scientists in Lindau, Germany | |
| The One Show, 17 July 2009 The British technology that made the Apollo missions possible | |
| Class of 1959 50th Anniversary Reunion On 15th July 2009, many of the class of 1959 returned to their old department for a 50th anniversary reunion | |
| IChemE workshop great success The IChemE Particle Technology Subject Group workshop held by the CoMo group was a great success | |
| Poster prize for Min Zhang Min Zhang won an award at the International Symposium on Agglomeration | |
| Danckwerts-Pergamon Prize for Christoph Müller Prize for the best PhD dissertation on a subject connected with Chemical Engineering | |
June 2009 | |
| Prizes for Patrick Gordon and Edward Ishiyama Patrick Gordon and Edward Ishiyama won prizes at the International Conference on Heat Exchanger Fouling in Cleaning in Austria | |
| Population balance modelling for particle processes The Institution of Chemical Engineers' workshop, 30th June to 1st July 2009 | |
| Research Open Day Research Visions for the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, 24th June 2009 | |
| CBE for Lynn Gladden Professor Lynn Faith Gladden has been awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to Chemical Engineering. | |
| Design Project Winners The winners are Tim Johanson, Sarah Gibson, Ian Dumolo, Immanuel Kemp, Naomi Jones and William Tan | |
May 2009 | |
| Cambridge University Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CUCEB) Alumni Group is now on LinkedIn! The new CUCEB Alumni Group on LinkedIn will enable alumni to keep in touch with old friends, share career experiences, communicate with the Department and liaise with industrialists | |
| Yousef Jameel Scholarship for Wei Jin Gun This highly prestigious award will enable Wei Jin Gun to study for a PhD | |
| Dow Sustainability Challenge Award for Sina Bonyadi Sina Bonyadi is one of three winners of the 2009 Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge. | |
April 2009 | |
| Success in international business plan competition HivioSense, a business conceived by students from the Master's in Bioscience Enterprise Programme, has recorded success in an international business plan competition based in the Netherlands. | |
| Best presentation prize for Ting-Yueh Liu Ting-Yueh Liu was awarded the prize for the best oral presentation at the Spring School for Computational Combustion using High Performance Computing | |
| Salters' prize for Patrick Davies Patrick Davies has been awarded one of this year's Graduate prizes from The Salters' Institute of Industrial Chemistry. | |
| Continued success for Cambridge Entrepreneurs A biotech start-up formed by students from the MBE postgraduate business course has come second in Oxford University's "Idea Idol" competition | |
March 2009 | |
| Mackley Asia tour Professor Mackley has completed an Asia lecture tour as part of his sabbatical leave. | |
| Ice Hockey Varsity trophy winners Cambridge Women's Ice Hockey Team have once again captured the Varsity trophy! The Captain of the team was Sarah Creber, who scored 5 goals in the game, and was named MVP. | |
| SET for BRITAIN SET for BRITAIN, a major scientific competition and exhibition in Parliament, was held in the House of Commons on 9 March. Paolo Bombelli and Vincent Ho were selected from more than 600 entries to display their posters at the Engineering session. | |
| Research project prize winners The winners of the prizes for best presentation were Rebecca Conroy and Asad Akhter with their project on Evolving fracture patterns and Michael Norton and Patrick Davies with their work on Convective heat transfer in a rotary kiln. | |
February 2009 | |
| Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Scheme Professor Paul Watkinson from the University of British Columbia, Canada, recently spent a month visiting Dr Ian Wilson as part of the Royal Academy of Engineering's Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Scheme and this has just been featured as a case study on the Scheme's web page. | |
| CamBridgeSens Innovation Competition Winners The CamBridgeSens Innovation Competition offers awards up to £5000 to teams of interdisciplinary researchers to make the first steps in putting together or trying out novel ideas in the area of sensor research. | |
| Chemical Engineers win charity jailbreak Henry Fovargue and Annie Spencer, both Chemical Engineering undergraduates, have been raising money for charity by taking part in the RAG Jailbreak Challenge | |
| Lebanon Technology HE and research venture Roger Ammoun visited the department on Friday, 30 January 2009 | |
| Emsley Prize for Marios Hadjiandreou Marios Hadjiandreou has been awarded the Emsley Prize in Natural Sciences | |
January 2009 | |
| Prizes for first year research students The prize for best work was won by Sarah Creber | |
| Special Journal Issue on Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy A themed issue on quantitative fluorescence microscopy is published in February by the Royal Society Interface Journal. | |
| Scaling of columnar joints Work by Post doctoral researcher Dr Lucas Goehring has been featured on the cover of PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. | |
| Welcome a new member of staff Dr Tom Matthams has joined the Department as Academic Secretary | |
December 2008 | |
| Joint first in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise The Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge was ranked joint first with Imperial College London in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. | |
| Visitors from Sri Lanka and Thailand Professor Hirimburegama, Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, visited the University and we were also visited by a delegation from BIOTEC (National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology), Thailand. | |
| European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant Dr Alan Tunnacliffe, Reader in Biotechnology at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, was recently awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator Grant worth €2.5 million. | |
| Best Paper Award for Mayyada El-Sayed Mayyada El-Sayed has won the "Best Paper Award of International Conference on Chemical Engineering 2008" at the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2008 | |
November 2008 | |
| International Drying Symposium Ian Somasundram has won the prize for best oral presentation at the 16th International Drying Symposium in India. | |
| Supercontinuum success A new optical technique developed in the department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology for measuring molecular species at trace level concentrations was recently featured as a Research Highlight in the September issue of Nature Photonics. | |
| AIMES award for Naomi Jones Naomi Jones was awarded the Lion Foundation Education Award as part of the annual North Harbour Club A.I.M.E.S. Awards 2008. | |
| Best poster at AstraZeneca event Ya Ying Chen has been awarded the best poster presentation by AstraZeneca at their PhD Review Day | |
October 2008 | |
| Collaboration with the Mary Rose Trust an unusual collaboration involving freeze-drying an old boat... not just any old boat though - the Mary Rose | |
| The best science lesson EVER! Children at an Essex school described a "Gases" presentation as the best science lesson EVER! | |
| First year graduate student presentations The winner of the prize for best presentation was Gentiana Shiko, with runner up Laurence McGlashan | |
| bioProcess UK Samantha Gooneratne and Vincent Ho were recently awarded a bursary each from bioProcess UK. | |
| Dr Robin Cameron Paul CBE - 1935-2008 It is with sadness that we share the news of the death of Dr Robert (Robin) Cameron Paul CBE, an alumnus of the Department of Chemical Engineering and a great friend of the Department throughout his career. | |
| Danckwerts-Pergamon Prize for Alasdair Campbell The Danckwerts-Pergamon Prize is awarded by the Department each year for the best PhD dissertation on a subject connected with Chemical Engineering. | |
September 2008 | |
| CamBridgeSens CamBridgeSens, is a large scale, EPSRC funded, network in the University of Cambridge aimed at uniting researchers working on all aspects of sensor design and application. | |
August 2008 | |
| 'Convection without a bang' highlighted in publications of the RSC Recent work on thermal explosions, conducted in this in the Department, has been highlighted in the magazines Chemical Science and Chemistry World. | |
| We've merged! The Department of Chemical Engineering and the Institute of Biotechnology have now merged to form a new Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. The merger was described by the chemical engineer as a Marriage of Love and the wedding reception took the form of a Champagne Lunch in Nevile's Court, Trinity College on 1 August. | |
