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Mon, 11/30/2020

Meet our new faculty

ChemE welcomes two alumni back to the department

Wed, 10/28/2020 | Seattle Times

A formula for more-protective face masks

ChemE spinoff Membrion is developing a sprayable treatment for cloth masks that electrostatically adsorbs the coronavirus and could keep the wearer safer

Fri, 10/16/2020

Introducing C-HACK 2021: a hackathon for ChemE students

Over two weeks in January, undergrads will complete a Python tutorial and team up to solve a chemical engineering problem with code

Thu, 10/15/2020

A legacy of student support and research excellence

ChemE launches the Berg Endowed Fellowship

Mon, 10/12/2020

How to build a network of pharmaceutical biofactories

Advances in synthetic biology and biomaterials open up exciting prospects for distributed manufacturing of drugs, food products, and other commodities

Wed, 10/07/2020 | American Physical Society

Jenekhe wins APS Polymer Physics Prize

Professor Sam Jenekhe is recognized for his influential work on semiconducting polymers for electronic and photovoltaic applications

Wed, 09/02/2020 | UW Mechanical Engineering

UW teams up with regional first responders on mask decontamination

ChemE's Jonathan Posner is part of a team building portable boxes that decontaminate N95 masks

Thu, 08/27/2020 | UW Medicine

Kidney dialysis innovation garners national prize

The Center for Dialysis Innovation earns a KidneyX award for a porous synthetic graft intended to make dialysis safer and more reliable

Wed, 08/05/2020 | UW Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute

ChemE faculty work on a new type of SARS-Cov-2 antibody test

ChemE professor James Carothers and adjunct professor Jesse Zalatan receive NSF award to develop a new type of SARS-CoV-2 antibody test

Tue, 06/23/2020 | UW News

Lasers that cool semiconductors

Cooling lasers could revolutionize fields ranging from bio-imaging to quantum communication

Wed, 06/03/2020

The 2020 Science & Engineering as Art Competition

Presenting beautiful, creative views of ChemE students' research

Mon, 05/18/2020 | UW Engineering

Quantum edge

Through the QuantumX initiative, guided by ChemE chair Jim Pfaendtner and multidisciplinary partners, the UW aims to be a leader in the coming quantum age

Fri, 05/15/2020 | The Daily

ChemE senior works to curb pharmaceutical pollution

Nathanael Ramos has been devising how to electrochemically degradate pharmaceutical compounds in wastewater before they can reach aquatic ecosystems

Mon, 05/04/2020

Four ChemE students among 2020 Husky 100

Two undergraduates and two graduate students are recognized for making the most of their time at UW

Fri, 04/03/2020 | UW Foster Blog

Student design team places 2nd in EIC

ElectroSolar Oxygen won the $10,000 second place prize in the (virtual) Environmental Innovation Challenge

Thu, 02/13/2020 | UW News

Immune cells consult with neighbors to make decisions

New research from UW and Northwestern University shows that immune cells ‘count’ how many of them have gathered to determine how much the immune system should react

Fri, 02/07/2020 | UW Clean Energy Institute

Powering the future of transportation

UW energy storage researchers are working with Nobel laureates to build a better battery for electric vehicles

Fri, 01/17/2020 | UW College of Engineering

ChemE alumni earn Diamond Awards

Greg Newbloom is honored for Entrepreneurial Excellence, and Scott and Catherine Roberts are recognized for Distinguished Service

Fri, 01/17/2020 | UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

Engineered capillaries propel malaria research

With a new microvessel fabrication technique, engineers and pathologists gain deeper understanding of infected blood cell circulation

Fri, 12/06/2019

Pioneers in Biomaterials

How visionary chemical engineers at the UW set the stage for decades of biomaterials innovation

Fri, 12/06/2019

Flipped Classroom

Where lectures take place at home, and homework is done in class

Mon, 11/04/2019 | UW News

Light-based ‘tractor beam’ assembles materials at the nanoscale

ChemE researchers use highly focused lasers to assemble nanoscale semiconductor materials into larger structures

Tue, 09/24/2019 | National Academy of Engineering

DeForest selected for NAE symposium

Professor Cole DeForest will participate in the NAE Frontiers of Engineering symposium, which brings together early-career engineers to promote the transfer of new techniques and approaches across engineering disciplines.

Tue, 08/06/2019

ElectroSolar Oxygen: Just add sunlight, air, and water

An award-winning capstone design's simple formula for generating medical oxygen in underserved areas

Thu, 08/01/2019

New UW–PNNL project to illuminate design principles behind peptoid-generated plasmonic nanomaterials

By mimicking how organisms produce biominerals, engineers may be able to synthesize advanced composite materials