Sydney presents at the 103rd New England Complex Fluids Meeting at UMass Amherst

Sydney presents a SoundBite at the 103rd New England Complex Fluids Meeting at University of Massachusetts Amherst on “Machine learning prediction of biofilm removal from surfaces using biocolloidal characteristics of bacterial clusters released from biofilms”

Cassidy Griffith and Winnie Yang join the Lab!

Cassidy Griffith joins the lab as part of the Biomedical Engineering NSF REU program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Winnie Yang joins the lab as part of the WPI Early Research Experience in E-term (EREE) program.  We are excited to have Cassidy and Winnie in the lab this summer!

Sydney presents at the 102nd New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Yale University

Sydney presents a lightning talk, titled “Unsupervised machine learning to reveal trends in colloidal properties of biofilm-released cell clusters” at the 102nd New England Complex Fluids Meeting held at Yale University.

Sydney presents a poster at the 2025 WPI Graduate Research and Innovation Exchange (GRIE) competition

Sydney presents a poster titled “Machine learning to predict the success of bacteria removal from surfaces using only the properties of released cells” at the 2025 WPI WPI Graduate Research and Innovation Exchange (GRIE) competition held on February 21, 2025.

Sydney presents at the 101st New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Harvard University

Sydney presents a SoundBite at the 101st New England Complex Fluids Meeting at Harvard University on “Machine learning to characterize biocolloidal properties of bacterial clusters released from biofilms.”

Dr. Stewart delivers an invited talk at the University of New Haven in New Haven, CT!

Dr. Stewart delivers an invited talk to share recent work on biofilms as biocolloidal systems with the Chemistry and Chemical & Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of New Haven in New Haven, CT!

Sydney presents a poster on her and Lily’s engineering education research at the 2024 New England Educational Assessment Network (NEean) Fall Forum

November 7 – Sydney presents a poster on her and Lily’s engineering education research related to the “Assessment of Graduate and Undergraduate Students’ Communication Skill Development through STEM Outreach”  at the 2024 New England Educational Assessment Network (NEean) Fall Forum.  Nice job, Sydney and Lily!

Esai presents a poster at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA

Esai presents a poster at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA on his work collaborative work with Patryck, where they are developing a diffusiophoresis-based separator for removal colloidal particulate from water.

Nicole and Erin present their work at the AIChE Annual Meeting Undergraduate poster Session in San Diego, CA

Nicole and Erin, two Stewart lab undergraduate researchers, present their work at the AIChE Annual Meeting Undergraduate poster Session in San Diego, CA.  Congrats on your successful presentations!

The Stewart Lab participates in outreach at the STEM Family Night at the Boys & Girls Club in Worcester, MA

The Stewart Lab participates in outreach at the STEM Family Night at the Boys & Girls Club in Worcester, MA. We had the exciting opportunity to share our research and teach the Worcester community about where bacteria like to grow with an interactive activity: “Habitat builder: a bacteria growing game to learn where germs like […]