Month: June 2019

Chemical Engineering Graduate Research Symposium to be held on 20th September 2019

This year’s Department of Chemical Engineering Graduate student symposium will happen on 20th September 2019.

If you are a fourth or fifth-year student who would like to present a talk at the symposium, send in your abstracts by Friday, August 30th. Preference will be given to 4th-year students for whom participation in the symposium is mandatory.
Students of any year are welcomed and encouraged to present a poster! Likewise, please submit your poster abstract by Friday, August 30th. In addition to a cash prize for the best talk, there will also be best poster cash prizes!
Abstracts must be no longer than 1 page, the font should not be smaller than 12 pt Arial font, and the margins should not be smaller than 1 inch. Graphical abstracts are also encouraged and references are allowed but must fit within the one-page guideline.
All abstracts are to be sent to chegsapsu@gmail.com

Parinaz Emami receives poster award at biotechnology symposium

Image credits: Tyler Henderson

Parinaz Emami, a doctoral degree candidate in chemical engineering, recently received the Best Poster Award at Penn State’s Law, Policy and Engineering Biotechnology Symposium. Emami’s poster was titled “Purification of Polysaccharide-Protein Conjugate Vaccines Using Ultrafiltration/Diafiltration Processes.” The poster focused on her research on the purification of polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccines, which are primarily used for the prevention of a variety of diseases caused by S. pneumoniae, such as pneumonia and meningitis. More details can be found here