Chuqiao (Elise) Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and her collaborators were awarded top honors at the 2025 Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) Principal Investigators’ Meeting, held in Washington, D.C. The team won the Student and Postdoc Team Science Competition, besting more than twenty other research groups from across the country.| www.chemengr.ucsb.edu
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has been named the recipient of the 2025 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control systems engineers and scientists. Presented by the American Automation Control Council, which is the U.S. national member organization of the International Federal of Automatic Control (IFAC), the award honors distinguished career contributions to the theory or application ...| www.chemengr.ucsb.edu
Anika Jena, a rising fourth-year chemical engineering major at UC Santa Barbara, has earned an opportunity to present her work on powerful supramolecular biomaterials and nucleic acid nanotechnology at next month’s American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. Jena was one of only ten undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral chemists nationwide selected to receive an Eli Lilly Travel Award from the ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) and Eli Lilly and Company. Aimed at in...| www.chemengr.ucsb.edu
The distinguished chemical engineer and materials scientist joined the UCSB faculty in 2014.| rss
A paper led by UCSB alumnus Michael C. Burroughs (PhD ’21) has won the 2025 Journal of Rheology Publication Award.| rss
The UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering’s 2025 Undergraduate Commencement is just days away for seniors. The ceremony will take place on Friday, June 13, at 1 PM on Commencement Green. Graduating senior Changxuan Yang will be part of a select group of students leading the class of 2025 into the ceremony as banner carriers.| rss
Each spring, the UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering (COE) bestows a handful of prestigious awards upon graduating seniors, who excelled both inside and outside of the classroom. Each recipient will be honored on stage during the college’s Undergraduate Commencement, which will take place at 1 PM on Commencement Green on Friday, June 13. | www.chemengr.ucsb.edu
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara and Northwestern University have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks into strands, or fibrils, of misfolded tau proteins, which then transmit their abnormally folded shape to other normal tau proteins. Misfolded, prion-like proteins drive the progression of tauopathies, a group of neurodegenerative diseases — including Alzheimer’s disease — characterized by the abnormal accumulat...| www.chemengr.ucsb.edu
For the 24th year in a row, the chemical engineering graduate program at UC Santa Barbara has ranked among the top ten public universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate Engineering Schools report, which was released on April 8. The graduate school rankings were based entirely on peer surveys submitted by department heads at public and private universities across the country. The UCSB chemical engineering program ranked No. 9 among public universities and No. 14 overall ...| www.chemengr.ucsb.edu
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the world’s largest organization for chemical engineering professionals, has awarded one of its most prestigious honors to UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings, selecting him for the 2025 John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer Award, an accolade given to a distinguished member who has made significant contributions to chemical engineering in their field of specialization. The selection committee highl...| www.chemengr.ucsb.edu
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor Rachel Segalman has received a distinguished honor within the scientific community by being elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a commendation bestowed upon less than 1 percent of AAAS members each year. She is among 471 scientists, engineers, and innovators who comprise the 2024 Class of AAAS Fellows. The association is the world’s largest general scientific society and publishes the Science ...| www.chemengr.ucsb.edu
From helping students thrive in the classroom and in campus housing, to conducting undergraduate research at UCSB and at a national laboratory, Chandraki Chatterjee has remained extremely active while pursuing her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Recently, a committee in the Chemical Engineering Department selected the fourth-year senior as the 2025 recipient of the Amy Lutz Smiley Scholarship in recognition of her excellent academic performance and contributio...| www.chemengr.ucsb.edu