The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/chemical-engineering/)
Cornell ChemE Car is a competition-based project team that competes annually at both regional and national competitions. The team excels in competitions, having placed in the top two at regionals for the past three years.
In the world of academia, women are often under-represented in their field. In light of International Women’s Day, the Sun has highlighted three female professors who have made significant contributions in their field of science and continue to do so, despite facing setbacks.
With the help of Prof. Christopher Alabi, chemical and biomolecular engineering, our cracked cell phone screens may one day heal themselves. Alabi’s research focuses on polymers, molecules formed from smaller subunits that can be found in many aspects of our daily lives — ranging from almost any kind of plastic to the proteins in our bodies.
In the real-life application component of the program, groups of students ran the entire plant from the control room, transitioning from their paper diagrams to a 3-D, four-story plant.
Inside the auditorium, dozens of children and their parents gathered to listen to Akash Vaidya ’18 explain how sodium alginate and calcium can be combined to produce squishy “snakes.”