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Discovery at the edge

ChemE Ph.D. student Sydney Floryanzia’s research—and that of many of her peers across campus and across the country—is under threat as federal funding cuts continue.

NIH grant to improve dialysis

Buddy Ratner earns a $1.6 million grant that will support a new method of recycling dialysate that is 500 times more efficient than current approaches.

Advancing water treatment

UW Chemical Engineering graduate student Joelle Scott, from the Bergsman Research Group, is working toward a more sustainable and equitable future through advanced materials research, testing new methods to remove toxic forever chemicals and other contaminants from wastewater.

Proteins use logic for targeted drug delivery

By adding smart tail structures to therapeutic proteins, researchers in the Deforest Lab demonstrated that the proteins could be “programmed” to act based on the presence of specific environmental cues.