2024 Nobel Prize

David Baker, head of the Institute for Protein Design and adjunct professor of chemical engineering, has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in computational protein design.

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Navy to neuroscience

Undergraduate and Navy veteran Kristin Bennett brings her firsthand experience with traumatic brain injuries into the lab

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DeForest named MolES Director of Education

Cole DeForest, Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor and associate chair for graduate studies in chemical engineering, is the new Director of Education at the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute (MolES).

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ChemE graduate Maria Politi wins CEI award

Maria Politi received the Clean Energy Scientific Achievement Award for accelerating the UW’s adoption of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) for the optimization of clean energy materials.

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ChemE DEIA paper receives two awards

A publication co-authored by ChemE students, faculty and staff of the department's DEIA committee received two awards at the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference.

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