Lily and Sydney receive Honorable Mention in NSF GRFP Competition

Lily and Sydney received honorable mentions in the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program competition. They worked very hard on their applications and this is very exciting for the Stewart Lab. See the WPI announcement here to read more and see the other students at WPI who received the fellowship or honorable mentions.

Patryck and Lily present posters at Graduate Research Innovation Exchange

Lily and Patryck both presented posters at the virtual 2021 Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The annual Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE) is a poster celebration and competition that highlights the breadth, diversity, and quality of WPI’s graduate research. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Dean of […]

Patryck awarded 2nd place in graduate student competition for Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces Topical Conference

Prof. Stewart co-organizes virtual Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces Topical Conference at AIChE with seven sessions over two days

Patryck Presents at 2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting

Patryck presented at the 2020 AIChE Annual Meeting as part of the Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces Topical Conference. His talk was titled “Correlating Staphylococcus epidermis Biofilm pH Gradients with Local Biofilm Mechanical Properties”.

New PhD Student, Sydney Packard, Starts in Lab

We are excited to welcome our new PhD student, Sydney Packard, to the Stewart Lab. Sydney completed a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in May 2020.

Prof. Stewart and Lily Gaudreau co-PIs with WPI graduate students Heather LeClerc, Elizabeth Belden, and Elzani Van Zyl on Women’s Impact Network Grant to create an organization for the professional development and support of women graduate students at WPI

August 2019: New PhD Students, Lily Gaudreau and Patryck Michalik, Start in the Lab

Lily and Patryck have joined the lab and are eager to get started on research. Lily has a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Messiah College and Patryck has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. They are both very excited to be at WPI!

Dr. Elizabeth J. Stewart invited speaker at Annual AIChE Meeting: Establishing and Exploiting Biocolloidal Properties of Biofilms

Prof. Stewart delivers invited talk during the Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces Topical Conference at AIChE