News and updates from the Chemical Engineering Department at UC Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara, CA
Joined March 2016
Congratulations to fifth-year PhD student Anukta Datta for being awarded the department’s prestigious Schlinger Fellowship for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Research for the 2024-‘25 academic year!🎉
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Datta works to understand how the molecular design of polymers controls how they deform and modify flow behavior in dilute solutions, ultimately to inform their engineering for novel or optimized behavior.🔬 Read more: chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Datta…
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Congratulations to professor Michelle O'Malley, who was recently invested as the Cliff R. Scholle Endowed Chair.👏 This honor is in recognition of her exceptional accomplishments as a researcher and mentor. Read more: chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/OMall… #UCSBEngineers
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Congratulations to professor Phillip Christopher, who has received the 2025 Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis from the North American Catalysis Society.👏 #UCSBEngineers #ChemicalEngineering
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The prize recognized the Chemical Engineering Department’s Vice-Chair and his research group for “uncovering fundamental insight into structure-function relationships of active sites in supported metal catalysts.” Click here to read more: chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Catal…
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The inaugural @timeshighered Interdisciplinary Science Rankings lists #UCSB at #8 in the world.🏅👏 Nearly 750 universities from 92 countries were evaluated for the 2025 rankings. Click here to read more: buff.ly/3B5Plj4 #UCSB #Research #Collaboration
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Congratulations to professor Jim Rawlings for receiving the nation's most prestigious award for education in chemical engineering, @ChEnected's Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education! chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Excel… @ucsantabarbara @UCSBengineering
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In recognition of his outstanding contributions to student activities and community, Phineas Lehan is @UCSBengineering's 2024 Hynes-Wood Award recipient. Read his inspirational story and why staying busy helped in more ways than one chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Recog…
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Two ChE PhD students are members of DeNovo Therapeutics, one of six finalists competing for $40,000 in prize during today's New Venture Competition Final. Learn more about them and RSVP to attend at Corwin Pavilion at the link tmp.ucsb.edu/new-venture/new…
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The two students are Samuel Lobo and Devon Callen.
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More than a decade after hearing the world's leading catalysis researchers give honorary lectures as Parravano Award winners when he was a PhD student, ChE professor Phil Christopher found himself at the lectern as a recipient of the prestigious award. chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Excel…
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ICYMI: Siddharth Dey has received a prestigious @NSF Early CAREER Award to employ light to track the location and movement of cells during early embryonic development. The work could be used to study developmental biology, cancer, and aging chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/profe…
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ICYMI: Second-year undergraduate Anika Jena received a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious national scholarship given to UGs who are planning on careers in STEM-related research. chemengr.ucsb.edu/node/2478
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Congratulations to professor M. Scott Shell, who was elected a Fellow of @aaas for his "creative contributions to molecular simulations in chemical sciences, including powerful methods for coarse-graining and free-energy estimation." chemengr.ucsb.edu/node/2482
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UCSB researchers will eliminate bottlenecks to breakthroughs with newly acquired synthetic robotics systems. The custom-designed tech will give researchers the experimental firepower of a biotech firm. Read more about the UCSB BioFoundry engineering.ucsb.edu/news/el…
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Considering grad school? Learn about the value of a PhD in chemical engineering from @ucsantabarbara , consistently ranked among the top-10 grad programs, during an online info session on October 17. Register at this link and receive the Zoom link. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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It's no surprise to his students, who've voted him the department's Outstanding Faculty the last several years, but Joe Chada has received the Distinguished Teaching Award from UCSB's Academic Senate for excellence in teaching . chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/excel…
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We are proud to congratulate ShoTakatori, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, for being named one of @PackardFdn's 2022 Fellows. #PackardFellows support exceptional early-career scientists and engineers at the leading edge of discovery. chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/magic…
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Induction of @rsegalman of @UCSBengineering to the @theNAEng Congratulations
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Welcome back @KWhiteheadLab! Can’t wait for your Mellichamp Lecture!
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