Author: Lang, Ada

We are proud to congratulate the graduating undergraduate class of Spring 2025 on their achievement! This milestone marks the culmination of years of hard work, dedication and perseverance. To those who have earned honors, we extend our sincerest congratulations on this outstanding accomplishment. Your academic excellence is a testament to your unwavering commitment to academic […]

Dear members and friends of the UF chemical engineering community,   It’s Spring graduation time and we are thrilled about the successes of our students and faculty this semester. Once again, many of our students graduated with honors in Spring 2025. This is just the beginning of their new journey, and we wish them all […]

UF Chemical Engineering students, faculty and staff recently celebrated the reopening of the newly renovated Chemical Engineering Student Center and Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D., department chair, took a few moments to explain the background of the building, as well as future plans to remodel the entire chemical engineering building. The Student Center was first opened on […]

Caroline Lubbe and Aniela Nozka, both Ph.D. candidates in chemical engineering, were recently selected to receive the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GFRP).   “This highly competitive fellowship aims to ensure the quality, vitality, and strength of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States,” said Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D., chair of the […]

What do chemical engineering, the aurora borealis, semiconductors and badminton all have in common? That would be Hsiao-Hsuan (Renee) Wan, a third-year chemical engineering Ph.D. student.  Wan came to her academic choice organically because her Taiwanese family has a strong background in chemical engineering. Her mother holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and her father […]

Ryan Montes’ upbringing in a “humble Latin family” in Florida may seem so different from his experiences at the University of Florida and his career path. But, in reality, their tightly held family values, such as hard work, resilience, and focus on pursuing a better life, are why he has thrived in his field.  These […]

Cu Later Gator, the University of Florida’s student-created car, powered by chemicals and Gator attitude, chomped the competition recently at the 2025 AIChE Southern Regional Student Conference.  The AIChE Chem-E-Car Team won first place in the Chem-E-Car competition and third place in the Chem-E-Car poster competition. The entire UF team consists of about 16 students; […]

When you think about scientific research, you probably envision a sterile room that houses gleaming beakers, rows of pipettes and centrifuges. But what if you could house a lab on a chip? Call it the science of small, but a trio of University of Florida chemical engineers have developed a lab-on-a-chip process that could make a big […]

Fan Ren, Ph.D., a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Florida, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors , the organization announced today. Ren, who joined UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering in 1998, researches next-generation semiconductor electronic device fabrication technologies and advanced health sensors for events like heart attacks. Read […]