UCSB Chemical Engineering

Congrats to the ten PhD students and their advisors who participated in our virtual hooding ceremony to celebrate the completion or upcoming completion of their doctoral degrees! Cheers to Anirudha Banerjee, Tuan Nguyen, Patrick Corona, Kartik Kamat, Jun Hee Jang, Beihang Yu, Chitra Asokan, Pavel Shapturenka, Chatarin Wangsanuwat, and Jiamin Zhang, and congratulations on this remarkable milestone! #UCSBCOE2021 #UCSB2021 #PHinallyDone

Class of #UCSB2021 the university is looking to feature some of the outstanding graduates from the College of Engineering, graduate and undergraduate students. All you have to do is fill out this brief survey, and you could be featured on UC Santa Barbara ‘s social media channels. Let’s represent CoE, grads! bit.ly/UCSB2021-Survey

Congratulations to Christopher Bates, an assistant professor in the Materials Department with an appointment to Ucsb ChemEngr . He's one of 16 junior faculty in US to receive a 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. https://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu//christopher-bates-receives-

Congrats to graduate student Jordan Finzel, who’s received a prestigious fellowship from the DOE's Office of Science. He’ll work with high energy x-ray sources at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab to further his research on catalysts https://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu//phd-student-jordan-finzel-r

ICYMI: Ucsb ChemEngr professor Glenn Fredrickson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences this week for his contributions to soft-matter theory. He’s also a member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. Read more about his latest recognition https://tinyurl.com/UCSBNAS2021

Two chemical engineering undergraduates earned 1st and 2nd place in the student poster competition during the AIChE’s Undergraduate Student Conference. They presented work they did while participating in the Materials Research Laboratory’s Future Leaders in Advanced Materials (FLAM) Program. Congrats to Vedika Shenoy and Daniela Rivera Mirabal! Read about their research and victories, here https://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/making-statement

Congrats to third-year PhD student Chelsea Edwards, who won 1st place in the Materials Engineering and Sciences Division’s Graduate Student Poster Session during the AIChE Annual Meeting. Her award-winning presentation shed light on the difference between two classes of polyelectrolyte complexes. https://tinyurl.com/EdwardsAIChE

Our very own Michael Doherty delivered the Prausnitz Institute Lecture during the 2020 AIChE ChEnected AIChE Annual Meeting. It's a prestigious honor awarded to an AIChE member who's made a significant contribution to the chemical engineering sciences in his or her field. Watch the lecture at this link https://tinyurl.com/dohertyAIChE Congratulations Professor Doherty on this well-deserved recognition

Chancellor Yang just announced that most undergrad and grad classes will be offered remotely for winter quarter. Course information has been posted to Gold. You can read the entire message from the chancellor, here https://t.e2ma.net/message/sgmugm/kubd4ib

Congrats to Clarke Palmer of the McFarland group. The fifth-year PhD student has received the Chemical Engineering Department's prestigious Schlinger Fellowship for his outstanding progress in research projects. tinyurl.com/Schlinger2020