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Breakthrough
Turning Trash into Treasure


 
Chao Wang, an associate professor in ChemBE, and his lab have devised a way to transform plastics found in landfills into something of value: p-xylene, a colorless chemical liquid used in manufacturing.
Department News

GradPath Collective Aims to Strengthen Ties with HBCUs

In March, leadership, students, and faculty members from JHU and HBCUs participated in the GradPath Collective, an event that focused on strengthening JHU’s partnerships with HBCUs, both to attract talent to Hopkins and to learn from their success at mentoring and graduating outstanding Black scholars.
The program was funded in part through a 2020 Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study awarded to ChemBE’s Sharon Gerecht.

Excellence
Sangmoo Jeong, whose research focuses on the links between metabolic dysfunction and disease manifestation and progression, has joined the ChemBE faculty as an assistant professor. Jeong also is a member of the Institute for NanoBioTechnology.
David Gracias Elected Fellow of IEEE

Gracias was recognized for his contributions to three-dimensional assembly and origami engineering of nanostructured materials and devices.



Student Achievement
ChemBE Students Honored

Five ChemBE students received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
Alumni
Food for Thought

Liz Specht ’09 (ChemBE) is the director of science and technology for the Good Food Institute, where she helps identify gaps in research and funding to fuel innovations for new meat and dairy substitutes.
 
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