News
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
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
Thu, 07/18/2019 | UW News
François Baneyx named director of UW’s CoMotion and Interim Vice Provost for Innovation
CoMotion is the UW’s collaborative innovation hub dedicated to expanding the economic and societal impact of the UW community. By developing and connecting to local and global innovation ecosystems, CoMotion helps innovators achieve the greatest impact for their discoveries.
Tue, 07/09/2019 | UW News
Elizabeth Nance is one of six UW professors to a receive 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers
The award, also known as the PECASE, is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early-career scientists and engineers “who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology.”
Wed, 06/19/2019 | UW Undergraduate Academic Affairs
Research as a platform for change
Hugo Pontes shares his journey from arriving in the states to presenting research to members of Congress
Mon, 05/20/2019 | UW News, Nature Materials
Molecular tethers & chemical ‘light sabers’: new tools for tissue engineering
Cole DeForest's group unveiled a new approach to tether signal proteins within biomaterial scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. The molecular tethers can also be cleaved using laser light, which can allow for evolving patterns of signal proteins and the growth of tissues made up of different types of cells.
Thu, 05/09/2019
The 2019 Science & Engineering as Art Competition
Students find beauty in their research in this annual contest
Thu, 04/11/2019 | UW Materials Science & Engineering
MSE and partners receive $1M NSF grant to recruit underrepresented minorities
ChemE's Lilo Pozzo is co-PI on a grant that will fund scholarships for approximately 80 undergraduate and graduate students over a five-year period
Fri, 03/29/2019
WChE takes root on the east coast, more growth to come
Women in Chemical Engineering chapters multiply with new University of Virginia group
Tue, 03/12/2019
ChemE students pitch sustainable-development solutions at UW's Health Innovation Challenge
Three teams of ChemE undergraduate and graduate students competed at the 2019 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge, hosted by the UW Foster School of Business
Wed, 02/06/2019 | Langmuir
The leading edge of zwitterionic materials and interfaces
Shaoyi Jiang is a co-editor of a special issue of the journal Langmuir that explores emerging applications of zwitterionic materials — particularly in the production of biocompatible and environmentally benign materials
Fri, 01/11/2019 | UW Information Technology
100 nanoseconds in time
Ph.D. candidate Sarah Alamdari is using UW’s supercomputer to better understand how biomolecules interact with one another — opening the door to advances in chemical engineering