Category: Events

An elite team of student scientists and their “cube” qualified for the AIChE ChemE Cube national finals recently through a virtual presentation.

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 […]

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; […]

More than 100 people – mostly students – attended the 25th annual GRACE Symposium on Sept. 25, 2024, providing an opportunity for University of Florida chemical engineering students to showcase their projects, meet industry professionals and discuss new advances in research.   Oral presentation winners were Victor Rivera-Llabres, Cynthia Ezeh and Yunhan Chuai. Graduate poster winners were […]

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 (ASRC) since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Chemical engineering students throughout the southern region came together to participate in various networking opportunities, industry events, skills-building workshops, […]

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 of Florida researchers have invented a test that can determine within 10-15 minutes whether patients […]

Students participated in a round-table career discussion, networked with industry partners, and refined their resumes at ChemE Day in January. The department’s annual career and resume workshop connected 90 students with four industry partners. “We had an enthusiastic group of students attend this year,” said Cynthia Sain, Chemical Engineering undergraduate advisor. Student interest encouraged industry […]

The department of Chemical Engineering made a strong showing at the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando on Nov. 8-15, 2019. Sixteen undergraduates, 41 graduate students, and 16 faculty members connected with colleagues, participated in competitions, and showcased their research in 68 Oral and Poster contributions. UF AIChE chapter members participated in the new K-12 Outreach […]