Mon, 01/13/2025

In December 2024, the UW Department of Chemical Engineering welcomed Nada Naser, Scott and Cathi Roberts Term Assistant Teaching Professor.

Mon, 01/06/2025 | UW News

Alex Prybutok, University of Washington assistant teaching professor of chemical engineering, studies anti-racism, diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in engineering education.

Thu, 12/05/2024

The Gregory and Kimberly Ogden Endowment Fund in Undergraduate Research will support new opportunities for ChemE undergraduate students to work in labs.

Mon, 12/02/2024

UW ChemE has taken on the task of developing new professional certificate programs that will help working engineers fill critical knowledge gaps amidst new emerging industries and accelerating technologies.

Tue, 10/22/2024

Felix Kim (Ph.D. '12) conducts research in sustainable electronics and neuromorphic computing systems enabled by chemical engineering.

Fri, 10/11/2024 | UW Clean Energy Institute

Expansion of Washington Clean Energy Testbeds will enable fabrication of pouch cells to accelerate the next generation of faster-charging, higher-energy-density, and earth-friendly batteries

Mon, 09/30/2024 | UW Undergraduate Academic Affairs

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

Mon, 09/30/2024

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).

Thu, 08/08/2024 | UW Clean Energy Institute

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.

Wed, 08/07/2024

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.

Wed, 07/31/2024

A new multi-chamber reactor will accelerate materials experiments for the rapidly advancing field of microelectronics.

Tue, 07/23/2024

Chemical engineering Ph.D. student Sydney Floryanzia and Associate Professor Elizabeth Nance were recently named among the 2024 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship student-adviser pairs.

Mon, 07/08/2024

ChemE assistant professor Julie Rorrer was selected as one of 23 early-career scientists and engineers to receive $500,000 in funding from a new program by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

Mon, 07/08/2024

Associate Professor Elizabeth Nance was named among the 2024 Controlled Release Society College of Fellows.

Tue, 06/18/2024 | UW News

The UW College of Engineering graduate program was recently ranked No. 21 overall, and ChemE was among the subdisciplines ranked in the top 35.

Tue, 06/11/2024

Camillo Cheng (B.S. ‘76) is recognized for his entrepreneurial spirit in the world of Asian food manufacturing.

Tue, 06/04/2024

Graduating senior Sarina Vafa (B.S. ‘24) reflected on her academic experiences leading up to and during her time as a chemical engineering student at the University of Washington, and shares some exciting plans for her ChemE career.

Thu, 05/09/2024 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

UW ChemE-affiliated researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have learned to control peptoid “handedness,” one key to precision drug delivery and diagnostics.

Tue, 05/07/2024 | UW Today

ChemE junior Annabella Li, a double major in chemical engineering and biochemistry, was honored as one of the 2024 Goldwater Scholars. Li has researched the design, production and testing of new protein-based systems in the Deforest Lab.

Mon, 04/29/2024 | UW News

Chemical engineering Ph.D. student Nada Naser is among the the Husky 100 2024 cohort. Naser credits her UW experience for empowering her to connect engineering training with her passion for making STEM education accessible.

Fri, 03/29/2024 | UW Foster School of Business

Carothers Lab team C-1 Bio among winners for their technology that sustainably converts CO2 emissions from industrial waste into valuable chemicals.

Fri, 03/29/2024

Chemical engineers in the Pozzo Research Group are using open-source tools to build modular robots that can run multiple functions of complex experiments.

Fri, 03/15/2024 | UW Medicine | Newsroom

Cole DeForest, a UW associate professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering and faculty member of the UW Institute of Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, led the project.

Tue, 02/20/2024

Charles Sleicher, former chemical engineering professor and department chair as well as influential Washington vintner and nature photographer, passed away at the age of 99.

Tue, 01/30/2024 | UW Today

New research led by the University of Washington demonstrates hydrogels can form inside cells, providing researchers with a new tool to group proteins together inside of cells.