Fourth-year chemical engineering major Lexi Cuomo just broke two NCAA, US Open and American relay records in the 200 medley and 200 free with her teammates as the women Cavaliers swam to their fourth-straight ACC Championship title in swimming and diving.
Cuomo swam on three of the relay teams, which swept all five relay events, and she was among the Hoos' top individual scorers with 63 points.

Colby Whitcomb, a Ph.D. student in William Stansfield Calcott Professor of Engineering and Applied Science Robert J. Davis’ catalysis lab, is the recipient of the University of Virginia’s Chemical Engineering DuPont Student Safety Award for 2022. Presented by the UVA Chemical Engineering Safety Committee, the award was created by a donation from DuPont with the goal of encouraging proactive safety measures in laboratory settings and to prevent unsafe practices or conditions before they arise.

Two teams of undergraduate students from the University of Virginia Department of Chemical Engineering competed in the 2022 ChemE Sports Competition held at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' annual meeting in Phoenix.

It's been an exceptional year for UVA chemical engineering faculty, whose innovative research, teaching excellence and entrepreneurship are improving lives through applications in medicine, energy, agriculture and many other areas.

A busy conference season for chemical engineering Ph.D. students yielded numerous awards, a testament to the students' excellence and commitment to difference-making research. We rounded up a few examples here.
Mara Kuenen in assistant professor Rachel Letteri's polymer biomaterials lab collected two best poster prizes plus a scholarship to attend a short course on sustainable polymers. Her work focuses on designing materials with controlled lifetimes to address challenges such as plastic waste pollution and drug delivery.

Bill Epling, department chair and Alice M. and Guy A. Wilson Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Chris Paolucci, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, have teamed up on a new project to study the performance of metal-exchanged zeolites under varying reaction conditions.
Metal-exchanged zeolites are common catalysts used in myriad environmental applications, such as CO2 capture and mitigation of diesel engine exhaust emissions.

Mara Kuenen (second from left), a Ph.D. student in assistant professor Rachel Letteri's polymer biomaterials lab, with other prize winners at the Tosoh Polymer Conference.

Beibei Gao, a chemical engineering Ph.D. student in professor Roseanne Ford's lab, was awarded the MDPI Energies Student Poster Award at InterPore2022, the annual conference of the International Society for Porous Media.
Two MDPI Energies awards are given each year at the InterPore conference in recognition of outstanding student poster presentations. This year there were 63 nominations for the award, which includes a prize of 500 euros.

Mara Kuenen, a Ph.D. student in assistant professor Rachel Letteri's polymer biomaterials lab, designs materials with controlled lifetimes to address a range of challenges in medicine and engineering.

Silvia Marino, a Ph.D. student in Professor Bill Epling's catalysis lab, is working to improve gasoline-engine aftertreatment systems.