CCB Faculty Receive Awards from the Center for COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness

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2020
The Rutgers University Center for COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness (CCRP2) serves as an institutional hub for COVID-19 research activities and information dissemination. The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic present unprecedented challenges to global health and scientific discovery. In 2020, Rutgers University created the CCRP2, a part of the Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, to quickly respond to the global COVID-19 pandemic and to...

2020 Undergraduate Awards/Senior Exhibit

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2020
Each year, the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology hosts an event to celebrate the academic achievements of our undergraduate students. This year’s event was hosted virtually. The Senior Exhibit, organized by the Rutgers-New Brunswick Office of the Provost and Rutgers-New Brunswick Libraries, was held on May 1 through Webex video conferencing. It featured both synchronous and asynchronous components (recording here). Participating seniors presented their posters via personal Webex...

2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium

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2021
The CCB Undergraduate Research Symposium, which celebrates the academic achievements of our undergraduate students, was held virtually once again. The Symposium, organized by the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in collaboration with Rutgers-New Brunswick Office of the Provost and Rutgers-New Brunswick Libraries, was held on April 30th through Webex video conferencing. It featured both synchronous and asynchronous components. Participating seniors presented their posters via...

Karin Calvinho Selected for Elite Chain Reaction Innovations Program

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2020
Six new innovators will be joining Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI), the entrepreneurship program at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory, as part of the elite program’s fourth cohort. The six will join the two-year program starting this June, and each innovator will collaborate with a host scientist on staff at Argonne National Laboratory, while embedded full-time there, to develop revolutionary technologies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase...

RenewCO₂ Awarded US Department of Energy Phase I SBIR Grant

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2020
The US Department of Energy has awarded RenewCO₂ a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant to develop novel electrolyzers for the electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into mono-ethylene glycol (MEG). RenewCO2 is a spin-out from the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey where the founders developed the proprietary technology on which this project is based in Professor Dismukes' laboratory. The grant focuses on advancing...

NSF Awards York Lab Compute Time on World's Fastest Academic Supercomputer for COVID-19 Research

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2020
The York Lab is among first cohort of researchers to gain access to the fastest academic supercomputer in the world. The York Lab at the Laboratory for Biomolecular Simulation Research at Rutgers, along with the RCSB Protein Data Bank, are part of the Rutgers COVID Research Alliance, an integral component of the Rutgers Center for COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness (CCRP2) and the RBHS Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases (I3D). The York Lab specializes in the...

National Science Foundation Awards RenewCO₂ a Phase I STTR Grant

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2020
RenewCO2 is delighted to announce the award of a small business technology transfer program (STTR) Phase I research grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund the development of novel electrolyzers for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) with the co-production of chlorine. RenewCO2 will further advance the proprietary technology developed at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to produce MEG, by combining it with the...