Our own John Bowen has won the Molecular Biotechnology Training Program (MBTP) fellowship.  As the student of one of the training grant faculty, Mr. Bowen’s qualifications and outstanding work allowed him to be chosen for this program.

The goal of the MBTP is to train students to go beyond their standard training in graduate school to prepare for their careers.  Industrial cooperation is encouraged through a 3-month internship that Mr. Bowen will participate in later in his grad school career.

To find out more about the MBTP through the NCSU Biotechnology Program, you can look at its Graduate Fellowships Page at NCState.  The NIH symbol and information about the NIH came from the NIH website, which can tell you more about how the government agency seeks to improve human health and welfare in the US.

The Art in Science initiative in the Chemical Engineering department here at NC State has been going strong for two years.  As the instigator of the movement, Dr. Menegatti has helped to inject an appreciation of the aesthetically pleasing into the department.  In the coming years, we’ll continue to look forward to the departmental contest and potential growth of the program.

This project is intended to get engineering students to think across subject barriers, as well as to create intriguing images that are accessible to a non-scientist audience.  We hope that the program continues to grow and continues to do more to lessen what oftentimes seems an impassible divide between the humanities and the sciences.

To gain access to more of these pictures or gain more information about the Art in Science initiative, feel free to contact Dr. Menegatti.

For about a decade, industry leader in silica gel technology, Fuji Silysia, has participated with our lab at NC State in collaborative research that has resulted in several papers and great friendships.  This year, we said goodbye to Yuki Ohara of Fuji Silysia in Japan, as he completed his 2-year stay with us.  We are also excited to work with Atsushi, who will join our group later this month to continue performing great research, improve his English skills, and become part of our lab.

Thanks once again to Fuji Silysia for their efforts, collaboration, and for having so many awesome employees that can come work with us!

Our team is working hard to detect a biomarker that indicates heart disease – a real problem with a real solution.  Dr. Menegatti, as one of the advisors on the project, is adding his expertise in protein binding and detection.

Check out this video that came from the SensUs project – our team is featured in it!  The competition will be soon, so stay tuned as we continue to update.