Alumni Spotlight: Inspiring Students with ‘Big-Picture’ Ideas
At the Graduate Association of Chemical Engineers (GRACE) annual Symposium, John Blazeck, Ph.D. (ChE B.S. ’07), delivered a captivating keynote speech on his research and shared two big-picture ideas for combating cancer. He…
AI helps create better, simpler hepatitis, COVID-19 tests
Going beyond pregnancy and COVID-19, the world could someday soon come to rely on at-home tests for many diseases thanks in part to AI-fueled improvements. University of Florida scientists have…
Five Chemical Engineering Seniors Awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Five seniors from the Department of Chemical Engineering Jostin Armada, Dylan Carman, Grace Li, Grace Shoemaker, and Brendan Wernisch, were recently awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF…
Chemical Engineering Graduate Program Jumps Two Spots in U.S. News & World Report Rankings
The Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE) graduate program has risen to No. 16 among public universities nationwide in the latest U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) rankings. Last year, the…
UF AIChE Student Chapter Hosts the Southern Student Regional Conference
Written by Flynn Baliton and Violet Warren The University of Florida American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) student chapter recently hosted the first fully in-person AIChE Southern Student Regional Conference…
Denard Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Carl Denard, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award. His research focuses on cellular and protein engineering…
Rinaldi-Ramos Elected AAAS Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science honors 19 UF faculty as Lifetime Fellows The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and…
Hages receives Sony Faculty Innovation Award for Research in Machine Learning
Charles J. Hages, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering, has received the Sony Faculty Innovation Award. With this award, Dr. Hages will use…
Welcome New Faculty
The Department of Chemical Engineering Welcomes Two New Faculty Members Starting January 2023. Joshua Moon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Ph.D. 2019, The University of Texas at Austin Dr. Moon’s research focuses…
Three ChE Assistant Professors Receive the NIH Maximizing Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA)
Three faculty at the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35 Early-Stage Maximizing Investigators’ Research…
