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CBEE graduate students present at GEARS

Utsav Shashavatt wins 3MT 1st prize

Utsav Shashvatt won 1st place in the 3 Minute Thesis competition at GEARS and will be traveling to the regional competition later this year. 3MT celebrates the exciting research conducted by PhD...

Posted: April 9, 2019, 11:06 AM

Congratulations, Dr. Rao!

UMBC's 2019–2022 Presidential Research Professor

Dr. Govind Rao has been named the UMBC "Presidential Research Professor" for the upcoming three-year period! This is one of the University's very highest awards, and is tremendously well deserved....

Posted: March 22, 2019, 9:27 AM

Congratulations to Dr. Trevor Needham!

Congratulations to Trevor Needham for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation on February 22, 2019. Trevor will be working at the US Geological Survey, MD, DE, DC Water Science Center.  ...

Posted: February 27, 2019, 3:37 PM

Congratulations to Mustafa Al-Adhami!

Winner of the 3MT Competition

Congratulations to Mustafa Al-Adhami!  Mustafa is a Mechanical Engineering PhD candidate in Dr. Rao's lab.  After a series of rigorous training sessions with professional 3MT coach, Scott...

Posted: February 18, 2019, 1:11 PM

Trevor Needham wins the Best Student Paper Award

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Trevor Needham! He won the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contaminated Sediments in New Orleans, LA. The...

Posted: February 15, 2019, 10:22 AM

Our new associate dean for research & faculty development

Dr. Erin Lavik of chemical, biochemical and environmental engineering has been appointed as the College’s first associate dean for research and faculty development. Dr. Lavik received a ScD in...

Posted: February 11, 2019, 12:54 PM

Dr. Rao and colleagues receive APA recognition

2019 Global Health Research Award

We are pleased to announce the abstract “Disposable cardboard low-cost incubator for thermoregulation of stable preterm infants - a non-inferiority trial”, co-authored by Dr. Govind Rao and team...

Posted: January 29, 2019, 1:43 PM

Congratulations to Dr. Opeyemi (Yemi) Ajayi

Congratulations to Opeyemi (Yemi) Ajayi who graduated with his PhD on 12/19/18. You can read his dissertation abstract here. Photos courtesy Maximilian Franz Photography. Dr. Ajayi (center)...

Posted: December 20, 2018, 7:27 PM

PhD student Marilyn Allen awarded at AIC 2018

Congratulations again to PhD student Marilyn Allen, whose abstract on utilizing nanoparticles to treat lupus scored first place among all autoimmune abstracts at the Autumn Immunology Conference! ...

Posted: December 13, 2018, 2:10 PM