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ChE News

August 18, 2021

Howard University and Amgen Create Academia-Biotech Educational Fellowship

Howard University’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Amgen, one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies, have designed an innovative academic-industry partnership meant to greatly expand opportunities for underrepresented minorities in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The partnership takes the form of a fellowship for master’s-level graduate students and includes training in Amgen’s laboratories.

Category: Research, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture

April 30, 2021

Department of Chemical Engineering and IPS-Integrated Project Services Collaborate to Bring Pharmaceutical Industry Design to the College of Engineering and Architecture

This year, the Department of Chemical Engineering, in collaboration with IPS-Integrated Project Services, was able to offer a unique multidisciplinary course titled Biopharmaceutical Facility Design. The course was open to juniors, seniors and graduate students in the College of Engineering and Architecture. Theodore (Ted) Cohen, a Project Manager at IPS, was able to join our department as an adjunct lecturer in chemical engineering and served as the lead instructor for the course. Cohen holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering and a Master of Engineering Management from Rowan University.

Category: Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture

April 30, 2021

Alumnus Jamel Ali and Associate Professor Patrick Ymele-Leki Featured in C&EN for $1M NSF-Funded Bacteria Research

Chemical Engineering Alumnus Jamel Ali, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory partners with Patrick Ymele-Leki, Ph.D., interim chair and associate professor of chemical engineering on bacteria research funded by a total of over $1M in National Science Foundation grants. The pair were featured in a special issue of Chemical & Engineering News (c&en), a publication of the American Chemical Society (ACS), that celebrated 2021 Black Trailblazers in the chemical sciences and engineering.

Category: Alumni, Research, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture

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