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  • Undergraduate and Graduate Students Collaborate to Improve Microelectronic Fabrication

    May 23, 2017
    members of the collaboration between undergraduate and graduate researchers in katharine mirica's chemistry lab

    Thanks to advances in microelectronics, the typical smart phone today has more computing power than the first moon lander. Microelectronics involves the fabrication of minute electronic components with features on the micrometer scale or smaller. These advances are known to be slowing, and a collaboration between the Department of Chemistry and Thayer School of Engineering, led by Katherine A. Mirica, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and Douglas W.

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  • Rallying for Science

    April 25, 2017
    the march for science in los angeles images of protest signs

    On Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 2017, tens of thousands of people participated in rallies, walks, and marches held in Washington D.C. and in hundreds of other cities across the world. The March for Science saw an outpouring of support for science that was “unprecedented in terms of the scale and breadth of the scientific community involved,” according to Robert Proctor, a professor of the history of science at Stanford University.

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2014 Recipient: Jilai Zhou, Thayer

    July 28, 2016
    Jilai Zhou Alumni Resarch Award Recipient

    Jilai Zhou is a PhD candidate at Thayer School of Engineering. As a substitute for liquid transport fuel, bioethanol has become a focus in industrial biotechnology. Unlike the first generation bioethanol derived from feedstock, cellulosic ethanol not only reduces the dependency of fossil fuel and the carbon dioxide emission, but also avoids the consumption of starch or sugars important for humans. An efficient way to convert cellulose to ethanol at low cost is via consolidated bioprocessing (CBP).

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