News and Announcements

Current Year

June 17

Prof. Blocher McTigue presented a poster titled "Transitioning Polyelectrolyte Complexes using Enzymes" highlighting work done by Chaeyoung Lim and Maggie Campbell at the 2024 Bioinspired Materials Gordon Research Conference in Les Diablerets.

June 6

Kimia Mirlohi presenting her poster titled "Harnessing Chirality: Deciphering the Chemistry of Complex Coacervation for Enhanced Therapeutic Stability" at the ACS MARM Advancing and Designing Polymer Materials through Chemistry and Engineering Symposium.

June 6

Chaeyoung Lim presenting her poster titled "Enzyme-Triggered Depolymerization of Complex Coacervates: Drug Delivery Applications" at the ACS MARM Advancing and Designing Polymer Materials through Chemistry and Engineering Symposium.

June 6

Prof. Blocher McTigue giving a talk titled "Biomimetic Complex Coacervates for Biomacromolecule Stabilization" at the ACS MARM Advancing and Designing Polymer Materials through Chemistry and Engineering Symposium.

May 1

Prof. Blocher McTigue's article titled "Logistics of the Cold Chain and Therapeutic Lifecycle" published in the May 2024 edition of Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP)!

April 9

Prof. Blocher McTigue was awarded the National Research Foundation Engineering Research Initiation grant titled "ERI: Degradation of Polyelectrolyte Complexes via Enzyme Addition."

April 3

Alli Courtenay has won the Spring 2024 William H. Chandler Prize for the sophomore cohort! 

April 3

Sydney Volheim has won the Spring 2024 Robert C. Hicks and William H. Chandler Prizes for the junior year!