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Wed, 02/10/2021 | UW News

James Carothers recognized as inspiring Black scientist

Cell Mentor’s list of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists includes seven from UW

Wed, 01/27/2021 | UW Department of Chemistry

Charles Campbell named Chinese Chemical Society Honorary Fellow

Campbell is a professor of chemistry and adjunct professor of chemical engineering. His group pursues basic experimental research concerning environmental and energy-related catalysis, interfaces in solar cells and microelectronics, and array-based biochemical analyses.

Thu, 01/21/2021 | UW Department of Bioengineering

Buddy Ratner wins Bioelastomer Award

Ratner is a biomaterials pioneer and a proponent of technology commercialization

Tue, 01/19/2021 | UW News

Patterned platforms for tissue engineering

A new approach uses lasers and molecular tethers to instruct cells how to grow on a scaffold in the correct configuration

Mon, 01/04/2021 | KNKX

Choosing the right bus battery

ChemE Ph.D. student Erica Eggleton's work can help transit agencies that are looking to electrify their fleets

Thu, 12/10/2020

Instructions not included

A glimpse into ChemE's year of reinvention, adapting to the pandemic

Thu, 12/10/2020

Try this at home

The Unit Operations and Surface & Colloid Science labs go remote

Thu, 12/03/2020

2020 Moulton Distinguished Alumni Awards

Ray Marzullo (B.S. '69) and Barry Lutz (Ph.D. '03) are honored for their contributions to industry and academia, respectively

Tue, 12/01/2020 | U.S. DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office

Using data science to improve photovoltaics

Hugh Hillhouse has received a U.S. DOE award to model perovskite solar cell performance through dark-field imaging and machine learning

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