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Dear Friends,

The department had a very successful year. We hired three faculty – Nikki Farnsworth, Stephanie Kwon and Justin Shaffer. Diego Gómez-Gualdrón and Kevin Cash won CAREER awards, and other faculty won large multi-million dollar awards from NIH and DOE. Moises Carreon received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hildago, Tracy Gardner won the Board of Trustees award and Andy Herring received the Henry H. Storch award in Fuel Science. Our students continue to excel - Kristen Hietala earned a trip to Capitol Hill, and Jimmy Crawford and Grace Anderson won the NSF GRFP awards. We hosted the 2019 Regional AIChE Conference and plans are underway to host the West/SW Department Heads meeting in 2020 and ACS Colloids Symposium and the ASEE Summer School, both in 2021. Alumni support to the #idigmines campaign doubled this year. Professor Emeriti Dendy Sloan and Charles Vestal published a CBE History Book that is available on our web-page and via Amazon.

I hope you enjoy reading our newsletter. For our alumni, if you have been out of touch I hope the newsletter and department history book you will soon receive reignite your interest in the department and Mines. Please contact us and visit when you can. We love hearing from you!

Anuj Chauhan
Department Head

ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS

Roger Rueff '78, MS '83, PhD '85 play becomes large-name film

After Mines, Rueff became involved in playwriting, eventually meeting Mark Furlong and recruiting him to make his play into the highly acclaimed movie The Big Kahuna.

Zach Aman '09, PhD '12 extracurricular involvement leaves legacy

As a student, Aman was editor-in-chief of The Oredigger newspaper and president of the Mines Graduate Association, among other things. Aman is currently the program chair of the University of Western Australia's master's program in oil and gas engineering.

We'd love to reconnect with alumni! Send us an email with your news and updates at CBE+Alumni@mines.edu.

FACULTY NEWS

Welcoming new faculty to CBE

Nikki Farnsworth joined the Mines faculty this Fall.
Stephanie Kwon will join Mines in Spring 2020 as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor.
Justin Shaffer joined the department as a Teaching Associate Professor in July 2018.

Marr's colloidal research changes how we think about strokes and cystic fibrosis.
Wolden designs a "green-inspired" approach for manufacturing battery materials.

Faculty keep pace with advancements in science through outstanding research accomplishments

Carron and Koh - $300k NSF award for purifying natural gas via gas hydrates
Chauhan - $338k NSF award for gold-in lens for drug-less cystinosis
Gómez-Gualdrón - $215k NSF award for renewable synthesis of ammonia
Herring - $2 million DOE award for fuel cell MEA
Marr and Neeves - $2.6 million NIH award for microwheels
Marr and Wu - $250k NSF award for manufacturing nanostructures
Wolden - $2.1 million DOE ARPA-E award for green ammonia

Faculty continue to excel in and out of the classroom

Carreon receives honorary doctorate from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hildago
Gardner receives Board of Trustees award and the Partner in Philanthropy award
Gómez-Gualdrón receives NSF CAREER award
Herring receives 2018 Henry H. Storch award in Fuel Science

More about outstanding faculty and departmental grants »

STUDENT NEWS

CBE's AIChE chapter hosted Rocky Mountain Regional Conference

CBE UGs win big at research symposium

For the second year running, CBE students had the greatest representation of any department at the Mines' Undergraduate Research Symposium and a CBE student, Gabriel Adriano, took home the symposium's top prize.

CBE students prove they are exceptional

Mines' iGEM group places 3rd at Giant Jamboree
Grace Anderson and James Crawford won NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Awards
Ryan Gasvoda won the Best Student Oral Presentation Award at the 6th International Atomic Layer Etching Workshop
Abigail Meyer won the first place award at the 2019 NREL PV Reliability Workshop poster session
Andrew Tomaka published in Science Robotics

EMERITI WRITE CBE HISTORY BOOK

Written by Professors Emeriti Dendy Sloan and Chuck Vestal, the CBE History Book was published in late fall 2019. A free download is available on the department website and a print-on-demand book on Amazon.

Get a first look at the book »

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