The team bested more than twenty other research groups to win the Student and Postdoc Team Science Competition.| rss
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 ...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
The chemical engineering student was one of only two undergraduates nationwide selected to receive funding and present research at the national conference.| rss
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor Rachel Segalman has been named the university’s new Vice Chancellor for Research (VCR), effective July 1. The announcement was made by Chancellor Henry T. Yang, marking the conclusion of a comprehensive national search led by a campus advisory committee co-chaired by materials professor Tresa Pollock and physics professor Claudio Campagnari.| chemengr.ucsb.edu
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. He earned the opportunity after receiving the Outstanding Senior of Chemical Engineering Award, a recognition for not only having one of the highest grade point avera...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
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. | 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...| 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 ...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
The chemical engineering professor receives the John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer Award.| rss
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 ...| 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...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
Few people have heard of the chemical ethylene oxide, but all of us have used products that rely on it for their production, from antifreeze and plastics to textiles and disinfectants. It is what’s known as a platform chemical — one that is the basis for many other chemicals — and it’s worth about $40 billion per year on the global market. But the ethylene oxide production process emits millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually, contributing to climate change, and the curre...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
Chemical engineering faculty at UC Santa Barbara have awarded fifth-year PhD student Anukta Datta the department’s prestigious Schlinger Fellowship for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Research for the 2024-‘25 academic year. Established through a generous gift from Warren and Katharine Schlinger, the award recognizes a fourth- or fifth-year doctoral student in the department who has made outstanding progress in research projects, demonstrated by publications, submitted manuscripts, and...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor M. Scott Shell has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the world’s leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with nearly sixty thousand members from more than one hundred ten countries. The institute’s highest grade of membership, achieved only through election by the Board of Directors, recognizes Fellows for their significant professional accomplishments and contributions to en...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
The UC Santa Barbara Chemical Engineering Department recently honored Professor Michelle O’Malley for her pioneering research and appointment to the Cliff R. Scholle Endowed Chair with an inaugural lecture and investiture. The chair was established through a generous gift from Cliff R. Scholle, as a way to honor early leaders in the department: Professors Duncan A. Mellichamp, John E. Myers, Robert G. Rinker, and Orville C. Sandall, who had a profound influence on him and generations of stu...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
“Research without walls” isn’t just a phrase at UC Santa Barbara; it is the very foundation of the university’s academic endeavors. This is especially true within the College of Engineering, where new discoveries have been made and impactful technologies designed through interdisciplinary research. The college has long embraced a culture of collaboration and is home to numerous world-renowned institutes and centers, such as the Materials Research Laboratory; the Institute for Energy...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering faculty members have awarded the department’s top honor for a rising third-year PhD student, the prestigious Dow Discovery Fellowship, to Ryan Berry. The department bestows the fellowship each year upon one student who has made outstanding strides in research and presents a compelling plan for an innovative project. Made possible by a generous contribution from the Dow Chemical Company, the three-year, $150,000 fellowship is designed to support students...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
This week, the National Science Foundation announced the award of a six-year, $22M grant to UCSB under its biofoundries program for the establishment of the BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (ExFAB), a collaboration led by UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), together with UC Riverside (UCR), and Cal Poly Pomona (CPP). The NSF ExFAB BioFoundry establishes the nation’s first biofoundry that focuses on largely untapped and unexplored extreme microbes. UCSB's award is one...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
Every human starts out as a single cell, a fertilized egg, which then divides and develops into various cell types, such as skin cells, liver cells, and blood cells. Although these cell types look and function differently, they contain exactly the same DNA. But, how can the same genetic code be used to build more than two hundred different cell types in a human body? Researchers have shown that a cell’s function comes down to the thousands of genes that are present in a person’s DNA seque...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has received the most prestigious award for chemical engineering education in the U.S., the Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The prize, named after one of the founders of the chemical engineering discipline, recognizes distinguished and continuing contributions to education in the field. Rawlings, the Mellichamp Process Control Chair at UCSB, was...| chemengr.ucsb.edu
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Egg and sperm are unique cells that pass on genetic information in humans and other mammals from one generation to the next. They originate from a small group of cells called primordial germ cells (PGCs) that form early in a developing embryo. Because researchers have minimal access to early post-implanted human embryos for ethical reasons, very little is known about the process by which PGCs arise in humans. | chemengr.ucsb.edu
Phineas Lehan, a chemical engineering major, has received the College of Engineering’s 2024 Hynes-Wood Award, which recognizes a student for outstanding contributions to student activities and helping others with professional growth and development. The award is named for Jacqueline Hynes, former assistant dean for academic programs in engineering, and the late Roger Wood, a beloved electrical and computer engineering professor and former associate dean for academic affairs. | chemengr.ucsb.edu
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