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Jill Seebergh, ChemE alumna, when she was a student in the Berg Lab during the 1990s.

Wed, 12/10/2025

Two ChemE alumni cite John Berg as inspiration for their continued support

Mary Armstrong and Jill Seebergh reflect on how Professor John Berg and their overall ChemE experiences inspired them to give back to the department.

Forbes 30 Under 30 2026

Tue, 12/02/2025 | Forbes

Forbes 30 Under 30 Healthcare 2026

UW ChemE alumna Andrea Joseph has been listed among the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30, Healthcare.

A student works with a silicon wafer by a molecular layer deposition reactor.

Wed, 11/19/2025 | UW Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute

UW team uses extreme ultraviolet photolithography to create next-generation integrated circuits

A UW research team, co-led by ChemE assistant professor David Bergsman, uses extreme ultraviolet photolithography to create next-generation integrated circuits.

2025 Early Career Impact Award

Mon, 11/17/2025

2025 Early Career Impact Award

Chemical engineer Katie Weigandt (ChemE Ph.D. '12) is working to change and expand the way scientists study materials using neutron measurement techniques.

Renderings of micron-scale magnetic colloidal particles

Tue, 11/04/2025 | Rice University

Tiny swarms, big impact: Researchers engineering adaptive magnetic systems for medicine, energy and environment

ChemE assistant professor Zach Sherman is partnering with other institutions to revolutionize how materials can be designed, controlled and applied in real-world environments.

ChemE student Sydney Floryanzia speaks to a group of people at a STEM event

Wed, 10/29/2025 | UW Magazine

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.

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Fri, 10/24/2025 | UW Bioengineering

Ratner earns NIH tech transfer grant to improve dialysis for patients

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.

Woman in a blue lab coat and safety glasses loads a sample into a reactor in the lab

Tue, 10/14/2025

Advancing water treatment for a sustainable future

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.

A diagram showing three theoretical biomarkers that are present in specific, sometimes overlapping areas of the body.

Thu, 10/09/2025 | UW News

Programmable proteins use logic to improve 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.

Researcher pointing at visual data on a computer screen

Thu, 09/25/2025 | UW Medicine | Newsroom

Protein switches may lead to safer, smarter medicines

Adam Broerman, a chemical engineering Ph.D. student in the Baker Lab, is leading new research to potentially control when drugs are active or inactive in the body, making medicines smarter and safer.