April 16, 2012

MSU’s undergraduate and graduate students will share their research at the annual Student Research Celebration Thursday, April 19. Among the 250 students presenting their research are numerous students presenting results of their biofilm research connected with the Center for Biofilm Engineering.

April 12, 2012

CBE faculty, scientists, and students recently presented their research across the US.

Natasha Mallette, PhD candidate, chemical & biological engineering, and Elle Pankratz, undergraduate student, chemical & biological engineering, presented the poster “Fungal bioconversion of cellulose to hydrocarbons,” NSF Division of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Grantees conference, Arlington, Virginia, March 8, 2012.

April 12, 2012

Anne Camper, professor, civil engineering and associate dean, College of Engineering, was on the organizing committee of the American Academy for Microbiology Colloquium, “Microbiology of Built Water Distribution Systems,” Boulder, Colorado, April 11–13, 2012.

April 2, 2012
CBE undergraduate, Alec DeGroat, microbiology, was one of six MSU cadets to receive a Distinguished Military Student Award for the 2011-2012 academic year.

March 9, 2012
Anne Camper, CBE faculty and associate dean for research and graduate studies in MSU’s College of Engineering, and Mari Eggers, PhD student, microbiology, were awarded an R25 grant from the NIH’s National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) entitled “Improving Montana community health through graduate education.” With the grant, they created the 

March 9, 2012
CBE faculty Rich Macur, research assistant professor, chemical and biological engineering, and Brent Peyton, department head, chemical and biological engineering, along with Little Big Horn College’s Jonah Morsette, science instructor, will receive $210,000 over three years to develop fast growing strains of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria to help advance carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies.