Category: Students

University of Florida’s Elizabeth Aikman, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate studying biomaterials from Bombyx mori silk, attended summer school in California in July to advance her studies. Bombyx mori are also known as domestic silk moths and are economically important to the billion-dollar sericulture (silk) industry. 

Third-year doctoral University of Florida student Yunhan Chuai credits his parents with being “brave and supportive enough” to send him across the ocean to study engineering.   

With a background deeply rooted in engineering, Taofeek Tejuosho is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in chemical engineering working to accelerate the design and development of polymer materials for diverse technological applications.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ambar Coral Velázquez-Albino, a Ph.D. candidate defending her dissertation this summer, attended the NextProf Nexus program this past summer after meeting a professor from the University of Michigan at AIChE 2023 in Orlando. Sasha Cai Lesher-Pérez, Ph.D., encouraged her to apply during a poster presentation, where they met and had an opportunity to speak.  Velázquez-Albino, […]

Until recently, Hansel Montalvo was a fourth-year Ph.D. student exploring reaction mechanisms and material catalysts to produce alkenes and aromatics. However, it’s networking that helped him get selected into two prestigious programs this summer and helped him determine his next career step.  Montalvo met Beata Kilos, Ph.D., a Dow Fellow, when she delivered a graduate […]