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

Dr. Elizabeth J. Stewart co-chairs topical conference: Microbes at the Biomedical Interfaces at AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL

Dr. Elizabeth J. Stewart was the co-chair of a topical conference: Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces at the 2019 Annual AIChE Meeting in Orlando, Florida.

Elham Shoghi Galehshahi delivers a poster titled “Effect of pH on the Antibiotic Susceptibility of Softened Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilms” at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA

Elham presented her poster at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA which took place October 16th-19th, 2019.

DOD Army Phase II STTR is awarded to Stewart lab, Teixeira lab, and Mainstream Engineering to investigate membraneless water purification using diffusiophoresis

Dr. Elizabeth J. Stewart chairs “Infection Models and Microenvironments” session at 5th Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions