Category: News

Mark Orazem, Ph.D., has had a year of outstanding recognitions for his contributions to the field of Electrochemistry. He is a Distinguished Professor, the Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Edie Professor, and an expert in impedance spectroscopy for electrochemical engineering applications. His academic career spans 36 years, and his research ranges from fundamental to applied.  “This […]

Preston Towns has accepted a new staff role, Engineer I, in the Department of Chemical Engineering. This position was created to address the needs of the department’s teaching laboratories and assist in maintaining a safety culture. “I look forward to contributing to make the ChE department all it can be,” says Towns. In this new […]

Sergey Vasenkov, Ph.D., a professor in the UF Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded a Mercator Fellowship from the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The DFG is the leading independent research funding organization in Germany, with members from more than 100 universities and research institutions. As a Mercator Fellow, Vasenkov is part of […]

Department of Chemical Engineering alumna Sarah Mena (Ph.D. ’16) is this year’s recipient of the The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Particle Technology Forum George Klinzing Best Ph.D. Award. Mena’s dissertation at the University of Florida focused on the fluid-solids flows in dilute turbulent and laminar concentration regimes. As a post-doc at the University of […]

Jiancheng Yang, Ph.D., won the Bruce Deal & Andy Grove Young Author Award from The Electrochemical Society (ECS). The award consists of a framed scroll and a monetary prize, and travel award to be divided among the eligible authors of the winning paper. Yang will deliver a 40-minute presentation at the 236th bi-annual meeting in […]

Helena Hagelin-Weaver, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE), is leading a three-year, $633,000 grant from the National Science Foundation titled: Rational Design of Atomically Precise Catalysts for Parahydrogen Enhanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy. Dr. Hagelin-Weaver will collaborate with Clifford Bowers, Ph.D., a professor in the UF Department of […]

Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D., Chair and Dean’s Leadership Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been invited to be the IACChE James Y. Oldshue Distinguished Lecturer at the 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. […]

Transverse migration is used to concentrate and selectively trap DNA through microfluidic process and has advantages over traditional methods of extracting and purifying DNA.   Impurities in DNA samples can lead to inaccurate measurements and affect experiment results. Because of this, maintaining DNA purity is a crucial aspect of emerging analysis tools.   Butler et […]

Congratulations to Kelly Bukovic, Caroline Hamric, Kyle Howarth, and Leyda Marrero Morales who were recently selected as Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering University Scholars for 2019-2020!

The Department of Chemical Engineering hosted five undergraduate students through the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF REU) program and the Summer Undergraduate Research at Florida (SURF) program. The experience provides students the opportunity to work with a premier faculty adviser and a Ph.D. student mentor. Students engage in research and gain foundational […]

Department of Chemical Engineering Professors, Peng Jiang, Tanmay Lele, and Kirk Ziegler have been selected to receive the University of Florida Term Professorship award for 2019-2022.  These three-year professorships recognize excellence in teaching, research, and service to the department, college, and the University of Florida. Congratulations!

The award recognizes UF faculty and staff who have championed the career development of students through collaboration and mentorship.

UF CHE alum, William Van Duyn talks about what it was like to work on the Apollo 11 mission.

The Department of Chemical Engineering proudly welcomes new faculty members. Carl Denard, Ph.D.(Assistant Professor) Ph.D. 2014, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Originally from Les Cayes, Haiti, Denard emigrated to the U.S. where he received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University. He then moved to the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department […]

UF Department of Chemical Engineering Professor Tony Ladd, Ph.D., received a 3-year, $516,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance the understanding of how slightly acidic water dissolves porous and fractured rock as it permeates through it. Advances in this type of research could allow society to continue to burn fossil fuels without […]