News
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tue, 09/09/2025 | Biomedical Engineering Society
2025 BMES Award
Buddy Ratner, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, has received the Athanasiou Medal of Excellence in Translational Bioengineering Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society.
Tue, 09/09/2025
Elizabeth Nance named Blavatnik Awards finalist
Elizabeth Nance, Department Chair and Jagjeet & Janice Bindra Endowed Career Development Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, is a finalist for the 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
Tue, 09/02/2025
A stable, scalable treatment for newborn brain injury
ChemE graduate student Nuo Xu (Ph.D. '25) has formulated shelf-stable therapeutics that have shown success treating brain injuries in newborn piglets, a promising step toward future clinical trials to treat brain injuries in human infants.