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Aug 28
2024
UCSB to Lead $22M NSF-Funded Center on Exceptional Microbes
This week, the National Science Foundation announced the award of a six-year, $22M grant to UCSB under its biofoundries program for the establishment of the BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (ExFAB), a collaboration led by UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), together with UC Riverside (UCR), and Cal Poly Pomona (CPP). The NSF ExFAB BioFoundry... read more »
Aug 1
2024
Keeping the Faith
Every human starts out as a single cell, a fertilized egg, which then divides and develops into various cell types, such as skin cells, liver cells, and blood cells. Although these cell types look and function differently, they contain exactly the same DNA. But, how can the same genetic code be used to build more than two hundred different cell types in a human body?... read more »
Jul 30
2024
Excellence in Education
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has received the most prestigious award for chemical engineering education in the U.S., the Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The prize, named after one of the founders of the chemical engineering discipline,... read more »
Jun 18
2024
Still Among the Nation's Best
The Chemical Engineering Graduate Program at UC Santa Barbara once again ranks among the nation’s best in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Graduate Engineering Schools rankings. Out of 134 private and public institutions that offer doctorate degrees in chemical engineering, UCSB ranks thirteenth overall and ninth among public institutions. The rankings, which were... read more »
Jun 10
2024
Tobin, Doherty, Wan Receive Class of 2024 Awards
The 2024 Undergraduate Commencement is just days away for UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering students. The ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 15, at 4 PM on Commencement Green. Graduating senior Yuxiang Wan will be part of a select group of students leading the Class of 2024 processional into the ceremony. Wan earned the opportunity after he... read more »
Jun 9
2024
In Recognition of Outstanding Contributions
Phineas Lehan, a chemical engineering major, has received the College of Engineering’s 2024 Hynes-Wood Award, which recognizes a student for outstanding contributions to student activities and helping others with professional growth and development. The award is named for Jacqueline Hynes, former assistant dean for academic programs in engineering, and... read more »
May 22
2024
Excellence in Catalysis
While completing his PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, Phil Christopher attended monthly meetings of the Michigan Chapter of the North American Catalysis Society (MC-NACS). Christopher, who is currently a professor of chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, said that attending the MC-NACS Annual Symposium was an annual highlight, because the... read more »
May 4
2024
Three PhD Students Receive Graduate Division Fellowships
Three chemical engineering PhD students, Daniel Arnold, Elaina Blair, and Titus Quah, have received fellowships for the 2024-’25 academic year from UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Division. The Central Campus Fellowships are awarded on the basis of merit and promise of productivity.   Arnold, a fifth-year PhD student,... read more »
Apr 18
2024
Professor M. Scott Shell Elected AAAS Fellow
Chemical engineering professor M. Scott Shell has received a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community of being elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is among 502 scientists, engineers, and innovators across 24 disciplines who make up the 2023 class. The association is the world’s... read more »
Apr 4
2024
Solid Gold: ChE Undergraduate Anika Jena Receives National Goldwater Scholarship
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering student Anika Jena has received a 2024 Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious national scholarships given to undergraduate students planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. Jena, a second-year undergraduate, was one of 438 students named 2024 Goldwater Scholars from 1,353... read more »
Mar 14
2024
Professor Dey Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Egg and sperm are unique cells that pass on genetic information in humans and other mammals from one generation to the next. They originate from a small group of cells called primordial germ cells (PGCs) that form early in a developing embryo. Because researchers have minimal access to early post-implanted human embryos for ethical reasons, very little is known about the... read more »
Dec 19
2023
UCSB and ASML: The Benefits of Collaboration
University-industry partnerships are a regular feature at R1 universities like UC Santa Barbara, and in one particularly effective example, researchers in the laboratory of UCSB professor and Chemical Engineering Department chair, Michael Gordon, are pursuing fundamental research as part of a collaboration with ASML. The multinational technology leader... read more »
Dec 19
2023
Experimenting with Chemical Engineering
A new Chemical Engineering Department teaching laboratory, called the Asbury Pathfinder Lab, is home to a novel quarter-long course, ChemE 5: Introduction to Chemical Engineering Design, which gives freshmen students and others the chance to become familiar with the discipline through an immersive hands-on experience. The lab was made possible by an endowment from... read more »
Nov 9
2023
Eliminating Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs
Researchers in UC Santa Barbara’s newly designated Bioengineering (BioE) Department have received a significant boost from the U.S. Army, which awarded the university a $9.85 million grant to design and purchase state-of-the-art equipment that project leader Michelle O’Malley, a professor of chemical engineering and biological engineering, says “allows... read more »

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