News and updates from the Chemical Engineering Department at UC Santa Barbara.

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27 Feb 2025
Congratulations to fifth-year PhD student Anukta Datta for being awarded the department’s prestigious Schlinger Fellowship for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Research for the 2024-‘25 academic year!🎉
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27 Feb 2025
Datta works to understand how the molecular design of polymers controls how they deform and modify flow behavior in dilute solutions, ultimately to inform their engineering for novel or optimized behavior.🔬 Read more: chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Datta…

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3 Jan 2025
Congratulations to professor Michelle O'Malley, who was recently invested as the Cliff R. Scholle Endowed Chair.👏 This honor is in recognition of her exceptional accomplishments as a researcher and mentor. Read more: chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/OMall… #UCSBEngineers
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13 Dec 2024
Congratulations to professor Phillip Christopher, who has received the 2025 Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis from the North American Catalysis Society.👏 #UCSBEngineers #ChemicalEngineering
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13 Dec 2024
The prize recognized the Chemical Engineering Department’s Vice-Chair and his research group for “uncovering fundamental insight into structure-function relationships of active sites in supported metal catalysts.” Click here to read more: chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Catal…

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5 Dec 2024
The inaugural @timeshighered Interdisciplinary Science Rankings lists #UCSB at #8 in the world.🏅👏 Nearly 750 universities from 92 countries were evaluated for the 2025 rankings. Click here to read more: buff.ly/3B5Plj4 #UCSB #Research #Collaboration
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30 Jul 2024
Congratulations to professor Jim Rawlings for receiving the nation's most prestigious award for education in chemical engineering, @ChEnected's Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education! chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Excel… @ucsantabarbara @UCSBengineering
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11 Jun 2024
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to student activities and community, Phineas Lehan is @UCSBengineering's 2024 Hynes-Wood Award recipient. Read his inspirational story and why staying busy helped in more ways than one chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Recog…
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23 May 2024
Two ChE PhD students are members of DeNovo Therapeutics, one of six finalists competing for $40,000 in prize during today's New Venture Competition Final. Learn more about them and RSVP to attend at Corwin Pavilion at the link tmp.ucsb.edu/new-venture/new…

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23 May 2024
The two students are Samuel Lobo and Devon Callen.
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22 May 2024
More than a decade after hearing the world's leading catalysis researchers give honorary lectures as Parravano Award winners when he was a PhD student, ChE professor Phil Christopher found himself at the lectern as a recipient of the prestigious award. chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Excel…
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20 Apr 2024
ICYMI: Siddharth Dey has received a prestigious @NSF Early CAREER Award to employ light to track the location and movement of cells during early embryonic development. The work could be used to study developmental biology, cancer, and aging chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/profe…
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19 Apr 2024
ICYMI: Second-year undergraduate Anika Jena received a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious national scholarship given to UGs who are planning on careers in STEM-related research. chemengr.ucsb.edu/node/2478
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18 Apr 2024
Congratulations to professor M. Scott Shell, who was elected a Fellow of @aaas for his "creative contributions to molecular simulations in chemical sciences, including powerful methods for coarse-graining and free-energy estimation." chemengr.ucsb.edu/node/2482
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20 Nov 2023
UCSB researchers will eliminate bottlenecks to breakthroughs with newly acquired synthetic robotics systems. The custom-designed tech will give researchers the experimental firepower of a biotech firm. Read more about the UCSB BioFoundry engineering.ucsb.edu/news/el…
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27 Sep 2023
Considering grad school? Learn about the value of a PhD in chemical engineering from @ucsantabarbara , consistently ranked among the top-10 grad programs, during an online info session on October 17. Register at this link and receive the Zoom link. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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3 May 2023
It's no surprise to his students, who've voted him the department's Outstanding Faculty the last several years, but Joe Chada has received the Distinguished Teaching Award from UCSB's Academic Senate for excellence in teaching . chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/excel…
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18 Oct 2022
We are proud to congratulate ShoTakatori, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, for being named one of @PackardFdn's 2022 Fellows. #PackardFellows support exceptional early-career scientists and engineers at the leading edge of discovery. chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/magic…
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Induction of @rsegalman of @UCSBengineering to the @theNAEng Congratulations
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12 Oct 2022
Welcome back @KWhiteheadLab! Can’t wait for your Mellichamp Lecture!
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