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    RT @PittEngineering: For over a decade, @PittChemECar @ChemePitt students have designed, built, and raced a shoebox-sized model car powered and stopped by chemical reactions. This past spring, the team’s car came an eighth of an inch from reaching the national competition.
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    RT @PittEngineering: After discovering a cleaner, more efficient way to produce battery-quality graphite, Pitt researchers @ChemePitt launched Graphonos Materials. This spring the startup won a $20,000 Aramco Innovator Prize and Pitt's $25,000 Big Idea Competition Grand Prize!
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    RT @PittEngineering: Now in his third year as a chemical engineering student, Jonathon (Jack) Bender (@ChemePitt) can be found, quite literally, all over Benedum Hall – mentoring, making rubies, or even transforming a 3D printer.
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    RT @PittEngineering: Congratulations to Becca Segel (ChemE PhD ’25), founder and CEO of FlowCellutions, for being named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List for Manufacturing and Industry!
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    RT @PittEngineering: Congratulations to Hseen Baled! The inspiring professor has received the 2025 James Pommersheim Award for Excellence in Teaching Chemical Engineering.
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    RT @PittEngineering: Congrats to Pitt alumnus Andrew Ashmar (BS ChemE ’22)! He is the first author of a paper recently published in Green Chemistry highlighting research into dissolvable bioplastics—a project launched by Pitt professors Eric Beckman and Susan Fullerton.
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    RT @PittEngineering: Coverage in @physorg_com about the latest findings from @ChemePitt's Oleg Shklyaev and Anna C. Balazs published in @PNASNexus: a synthetic system that on its own directly transforms chemical reactions into mechanical motion.
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    RT @PittEngineering: In a new study in @PNASNexus, @ChemePitt's Anna Balazs and Oleg Shklyaev reveal how chemical networks can mimic nervous systems to power movement in soft materials.
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    Our department is EXCITED to host @tulane Professor Vijay John as this year's Gerald D. Holder Distinguished Lecturer! His topic: “Targeted Delivery through Self Assembly in Environmental Remediation and in Drug Delivery.”
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    RT @KellenStepler: Pitt to launch 1st-of-its-kind natural gas, renewables and oil engineering degree
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    RT @PittEngrDean: Great to finally launch this program which is part of our comprehensive energy strategy and make our Pitt Engineering students more competitive in a critical global field.
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    Excited to announce the launch of a new program: the Bachelor's in Natural Gas, Renewables, and Oil Engineering. "GRO" prepares students for a rapidly changing global energy market as the world continues to move from fossil fuels to renewable resources.
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    RT @PittEngineering: Excited to announce the launch of a new program: the Bachelor's in Natural Gas, Renewables, and Oil Engineering. "GRO" prepares students for a rapidly changing global energy market as the world continues to move from fossil fuels to renewable resources.
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    RT @PittEngineering: Our Swanson School family lost a kind-hearted soul this week - Patricia Park, Senior Administrative Coordinator for @ChemePitt. Throughout her 18 years at Pitt she was a beloved and dedicated co-worker with a keenly sharp wit. She will truly be missed.
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    RT @PittEngineering: Thanks to Pitt Magazine for this awesome story about the Swanson School's ongoing contributions to electric power research!
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    RT @PittEngineering: Great story by Patrick Monahan for Pittwire about our @CovestroUS Circular Economy program and its growing success, led by Melissa Bilec and Götz Veser, featuring @ChemePitt PhD students Lakshmi Ananthabhotla & Carlan Gray.
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