My office for the day. I'm working from Overwinter Coffee in Williamsville to read a paper draft. Backup laptop is now in the shop due to difficulty in installing VPN.

Congratulations to Bhavishya Maddineni on the successful defense of her MS thesis. She is my lab's 7th Masters graduate.

For those attending ASEE in Portland: We are excited to have finalized plans for the Chemical Engineering Division Banquet. We look forward to bringing everyone together for networking and celebration of the award winners across our community.
Tickets: bit.ly/3Ki98wJ

Congratulations to Dr. Carley Cook on successfully defending her PhD dissertation! She is the 3rd PhD graduate from my lab.

I'm really proud of these 3 UG research mentees who were new this semester: Koki Kanehira, Andrew Allen, and Yaman Oklla. They gave their CE 498 practice talks and reflected on their experiences. We are also thankful for their mentors: Krutika, Eduardo, Temitope, & Haryana.

I was the emcee for UB CBE UG awards reception. For the seniors I included their 'about me' presentations from CE 212 in Sep 2021. It was a fun personal touch and reflection on where they started. They also shared future plans & their highlights of their time here.

Four from UB receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/…

UB Celebration of Academic Excellence Ceremony: Congratulations to Ariel Lighty on being a recipient of the NSF GRFP Ariel M. Lighty (she/her). Other Chemical and Biological Engineering | UBuffalo CBE students recognized include Angela Aguirre for applying to NSF and Nick Reilly for being an institutional nominee for Goldwater

UB Celebration for Academic Excellence Student Showcase. Christine Singh from my lab is presenting her UG research poster

It is my favorite time of year in Buffalo! The Kwanzan cherry trees and the crabapple trees are in bloom. I LOVE all the shades of pink!

Professors! Excited to announce new U.S. National Science Foundation-NIBIB partnership for your graduate students to intern at the NIH with biomedical engineers! Part of an NSF Center? Got a CAREER Award? any NSF funding?Your students may be eligible!
new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-nih-p…

Great Lakes PSE 2024. It was my pleasure to host the event in Niagara Falls and UB Davis Hall and to interact with these great facilty and students. Joel Paulson will host next year at Ohio State.

My lab and Jeremy VanAntwerp at Niagara Falls. Nick's face in pic 1 made me lol.

Braatz group alumni at the Great Lakes PSE dinner 5 min drive from UB campus. We 'do the math'. Rudi Gunawan

Rudi, Jeremy, and I were labmates. We played Codenames together with our students at an Indian grocery store between the workshop and dinner. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. I love these people and the fun gaming brings. Ariel M. Lighty (she/her) Eduardo Chacín Haryana

I'm excited to host Great Lakes Process Systems Engineering Student Workshop 2024 at UB, April 26-28. We've doubled the number of faculty involved this year and will have student talks, junior faculty keynotes, a software workshop, networking, and Niagara Falls on a gorgeous day

My office for the day. Working from home amidst prepping for the impending arrival of our visitors for the Great Lakes Process Systems Engineering Student Workshop I'm organizing. I'm excited that the surface is cooperative with dual screen mode again.

Next Thursday, 5/2, is the Celebration of Academic Excellence at #UBuffalo ! 🏅Stop by Alumni Arena starting at 1pm to see what our brilliant Bulls have to show! 💙 More info ▶️ ms.spr.ly/6010YHMI0