Congratulations to Kimia for publishing her review paper "Coacervation for biomedical applications: innovations involving nucleic acids" in Soft Matter! 

Prof. Blocher McTigue was awarded the "Lehigh Early Career Award for Distinguished Teaching" along with Prof. Tom Gartner who won the "Stabler Award for Excellence in Teaching."

Prof. Blocher McTigue presented a poster titled "Combining Airbrushing and Complex Coacervates As a Step Toward Novel Bandage Indicators" highlighting work done by Alli Courtenay at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting.

Congrats to Chaeyoung Lim for giving her first talk at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting on her work titled "Enzyme-Triggered Depolymerization of Polyelectrolyte Complexes for Drug Delivery Applications."

Congrats to all of the Lehigh undergrads for their fantastic showing at the poster session! Shout outs to Sydney and Alli who took 2nd and 3rd, respectively, in their categories during their session on Food, Pharamaceutical, and Biotechnology.

Maggie Campbell giving her poster presentation at the 2024 BMES conference in Baltimore!

Congratulations to Chaeyoung for having her review paper "Form Equals Function: Influence of Coacervate Architecture on Drug Delivery Applications" published in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering!

Welcome to Ana Becker! Ana is a first year graduate student joining the lab to work on forming smart fibers by combining complex coacervates with airbrushing.

Congratulations to Kimia for being a runner up for the poster session award in the 10th Annucal Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Symposium!

Welcome to Logan Haverkamp and Sarah Lee! Both are sophomores in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and will be starting on projects this fall!

Prof. Blocher McTigue discusses her work and how it relates to real-world problems in episode 29 of the Rossin Connection Podcast. Click the link below!

Prof. Blocher McTigue presented a poster titled "Transitioning Polyelectrolyte Complexes using Enzymes" highlighting work done by Chaeyoung Lim and Maggie Campbell at the 2024 Polymer Physics GRC at Mount Holyoke College.

Two of our graduate students, Chaeyoung Lim and Kimia Mirlohi, presented their posters at the Inaugural PoWER (Polymer Women Empowerment & Research) Conference at Northwestern University.  This event supports women and gender minorities in the field of polymer science and I am proud to see them both presenting their work to our community.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)!

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

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

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