The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering welcomes two new faculty members: Assistant Professor Lingyun Liu and Assistant Professor Jie Zheng. Professor Liu received her PhD in Bioengineering from University of Washington in 2007. She joined the faculty in August 2007. Her research interests include Biosensors, Biomaterials, and Tissue Engineering. Professor Zheng received his PhD from University of Washington in Chemical Engineering in 2005. He worked as Computational Biologist at the National Institute of Health's National Cancer Institute. He joined the faculty in October 2007. His research interests include protein polymerization, nanostructure design, biomaterials and biosensors, biomolecular interfaces, and multiscale modeling for complex biological assemblies.

The department is pleased to announce Professor Steven Chuang received a $765,000 grant from the Department of Energy for work on technologies to capture carbon dioxide gases produced in coal-fired power plant. Professor Chuan also received a grant of $2 million from FirstEnergy to create the First energy Advanced Energy Research Center to support development of carbon capture and coal-based fuel cell technologies.