Chair’s Message
Dear Friends, As we reflect on the past few months, we are excited to share several highlights from our department in this latest edition of our newsletter. In October,…
Six Chemical Engineering Faculty Honored with Professorships
Six chemical engineering faculty members were recently awarded professorships in recognition of their academic accomplishments. The three-year appointments, lasting from 2024 to 2027, include salary supplements to support teaching and…
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: A Chat With Ambar Coral Velázquez-Albino
Ambar Coral Velázquez-Albino, a second-year Ph.D. student, attended the NextProf Nexus program this past summer after meeting a professor from the University of Michigan at AIChE 2023 in Orlando. Sasha…
Alumni Spotlight: Hansel Montalvo
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…
Awards Dinner Celebrates the Department’s Successes
Students, staff and faculty from the department came together to celebrate the achievements of the past year at a dinner on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in the Reitz Union after…
Our Students Made a Big Impression at the AIChE Convention
The annual AIChE convention was held in San Diego in October and our talented students placed in several categories. The UF AIChE chapter won first-place for Outstanding Student AIChE Chapter for the…
Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D., Elected AIChE Fellow
Congratulations to Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Dean’s Leadership Professor at the University of Florida, who was recently elected a Fellow of the American…
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NIH awards $2.8 million to UF researchers to develop at-home HIV test kit
A new, easy-to-use HIV-detection test kit being developed at the University of Florida using advanced CRISPR technology shows promise as an early-warning alarm system that could save millions of lives. …
