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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.

Buddy Ratner

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.

2025 Blavatnik Award finalist

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.