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 Award (MIRA). Each researcher was awarded a five-year, $1.8+ million… Read More
The Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) was held at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Ariz., from Nov. 13-18. UF students and faculty participated and received many distinguished awards. Undergraduate Awards The UF AIChE Student… Read More
A Public-Private UF Collaboration Seeks to Optimize Clinical Outcomes by Pumping Up the Volume Through Novel Neuroprotheses Fabrication Every audiophile long ago celebrated the quantum leap from stereo to multichannel for their immersive listening experience. Now, through a $4.5 million… Read More
Ph.D. students Elizabeth L. Aikman and Marisa O. Pacheco and alumnus Nico Mendez (UF B.S. ChE ’20) were awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. These fellowships recognize and support outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering,… Read More
The UF team is the first to investigate the new heat-loving CRISPR technology, which manages to combine speed, accuracy, and variant identification by amplifying and detecting coronavirus genetic material in one step. Written by Catherine Arnold March 17, 2022 University… Read More
Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D., chair and Dean’s Leadership Professor at the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering, and Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, Ph.D., an instructional assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty of the Department of… Read More
Helena Hagelin-Weaver, Whitney L. Stoppel, Jason F. Weaver, and Kirk J. Ziegler were selected for the Department of Chemical Engineering’s Term Professorships Hagelin-Weaver Selected to Receive the Dr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Edie Term Professorship in Chemical Engineering Helena… Read More
Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, Ph.D., an instructional assistant professor at the University of Florida Department of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering, was recognized by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Societal Impact Operating… Read More
Yeongseon Jang, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Florida, Department of Chemical Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to design minimal synthetic cells capable of sensing and self-manipulation. In this project, Dr. Jang will collaborate with Carl Denard, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and… Read More
Piyush K. Jain, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering, has received a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop an early stage, paper-based… Read More
