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Sep 29
2021
2021
Two UC Santa Barbara faculty members, Mahdi Abu-Omar and Phillip Christopher, have been nationally recognized for their significant contributions to chemistry by the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Awards Program. Christopher, a professor of chemical engineering, received the 2022 Ipatieff Prize, a triennial award that recognizes... read more »
Sep 29
2021
2021
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor Michael Doherty, the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Systems Engineering, delivered the prestigious P.V. Danckwerts Memorial Lecture during the annual joint meeting of the European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE) and the European Congress of Applied Biotechnology (ECAB) in September... read more »
Sep 28
2021
2021
Chemical engineering faculty have awarded Yaxin (Starry) Xu the department’s top honor for a rising third-year PhD student, the prestigious Dow Discovery Fellowship. The department awards one fellowship each year to a student who has made outstanding strides in research and presents a compelling plan for a creative new high-risk, high-reward project.
“I... read more »
Sep 16
2021
2021
Researchers have developed a calcium sensor for use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that they hope can one day track electrical activity in neurons deep in living brains. The tool potentially allows scientists an unprecedented view of brain activity in specific types of cells across the entire brain of a living organism (ACS Sensors 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.... read more »
Sep 8
2021
2021
Anyone using a cellphone, laptop, or electric vehicle depends on lithium. The element is in tremendous demand. And although the supply of lithium around the world is plentiful, getting access to it and extracting it remains a challenging and inefficient process.
An interdisciplinary team of engineers and scientists is developing a way to extract lithium from contaminated... read more »
Jul 8
2021
2021
The UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering (CoE) extends warm congratulations to chemical engineering professor Michelle O’Malley for being named the recipient of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2021 Allan P. Colburn Award. The award, named for a legendary professor who founded the University of Delaware chemical engineering... read more »
Jun 9
2021
2021
Assistant teaching professor Joseph Chada, PhD student Mike Schmithorst, and graduating senior Kevin Mauge have received end-of-the-year awards from UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering.
For the second straight year, graduating seniors selected Chada for the Outstanding Chemical Engineering Faculty Award. He joined... read more »
May 3
2021
2021
Jordan Finzel, a third-year PhD student in the Chemical Engineering Department, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). He was among seventy-eight graduate students from across the nation selected for the DOE’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. Awardees receive supplemental funding and... read more »
Mar 24
2021
2021
Three UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering graduate students, Daniel Arnold, Kevin Modica, and Phong Nguyen, have received prestigious graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Fellows in NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) receive three years of financial support, totaling $... read more »
Feb 9
2021
2021
Two UC Santa Barbara engineers are among the 129 new members worldwide elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2021. Materials and chemistry professor Craig Hawker and Rachel Segalman, chair of the Chemical Engineering Department, join the 106 American and 23 foreign engineers honored this year. Election to the NAE is... read more »
Feb 1
2021
2021
Michelle O’Malley has long been inspired by gut microbes. Since she began studying the herbivore digestive tract, the UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor has guided several students to their doctoral degrees, won early and mid-career awards (including a recognition from President Obama), attained tenure and advanced to the position of full... read more »
Jan 11
2021
2021
Water is perhaps Earth’s most critical natural resource. Given increasing demand and increasingly stretched water resources, scientists are pursuing more innovative ways to use and reuse existing water, as well as to design new materials to improve water purification methods. Synthetically created semi-permeable polymer membranes used for contaminant solute removal can... read more »
Jan 10
2021
2021
We’ve been reading for years now about society’s dangerous overuse of antibiotics and the increasing number of antibiotic-resistant microbes that have resulted. While medicinal overuse of antibiotics has unsettling implications for human health, so, too does the increasing presence of antibiotics in the natural environment, which may result from the improper disposal of... read more »
Nov 30
2020
2020
Daniela Rivera Mirabal (pictured on left) and Vedika Shenoy (pictured on right), placed first and second in the student poster competition during the 2020 Undergraduate Student Conference hosted by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The two UC Santa Barbara undergraduate researchers presented work they did while... read more »
Nov 30
2020
2020
Ultra-long polymers are used in high-performance applications including energy-efficient lubricants, working fluids for energy production, and performance plastics. Despite their broad use, these polymers are often degraded by extreme flows and mechanical processes that break chemical bonds along the “spine” of the polymer chain.
Motor oil in your car is a good example,... read more »
Nov 24
2020
2020
Chelsea Edwards, a third-year PhD student in UC Santa Barbara’s Chemical Engineering Department, won first place in the Materials Engineering and Sciences Division (MESD) Graduate Student Poster Competition during the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting. The premier educational forum for chemical engineers was held virtually... read more »
Nov 19
2020
2020
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor Michael Doherty, the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Systems Engineering, delivered the prestigious John M. Prausnitz Institute Lecture during the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The lecture, as well as the conference, took place virtually as a... read more »
Nov 17
2020
2020
Chemical engineering faculty at UC Santa Barbara have awarded graduate student Clarke Palmer the department’s prestigious Schlinger Fellowship for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Research for the 2020-21 academic year. Established through a generous gift from Warren and Katharine Schlinger, the award recognizes a fourth- or fifth-year doctoral student... read more »
Oct 22
2020
2020
When we started using plastics about 70 years ago, not much thought — if any — was given to the implications of their lifespan and the fact that they can take centuries to decompose. Consequently, as plastics have diversified and become easier to manufacture, the planet is now straddling some 8.3 billion tons of the stuff — almost every bit of plastic ever produced —... read more »
Oct 21
2020
2020
UC Santa Barbara researchers will play an essential role developing new bio-derived products as part of a new institute started by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The BioIndustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem (BioMADE) will be funded by a seven-year, $87.5 million award from the DoD that is being matched by more than $187M from non-federal sources. Led by the... read more »
Aug 25
2020
2020
Chemical engineering faculty have awarded Parth Shah the department’s top honor for a rising third-year PhD student, the prestigious Dow Discovery Fellowship. The department awards one each year to a student who has made outstanding strides in research and presents a compelling plan for a creative new high-risk, high-reward project.
“I feel extremely... read more »
Jul 30
2020
2020
For her exceptional contributions to the field, Michelle O’Malley, a professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Chemical Engineering Department, has received the inaugural Early Career Award from the Food, Pharmaceuticals and Bioengineering (FP&BE) Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the world’s leading organization for chemical... read more »
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