CHE News

Workshops provide personal and professional tools to complement academic training

Mentorship is critical to graduate education, but how do faculty know if they're getting it right? Chemical engineering students and faculty looked for answers.

Liheng Cai Earns Prestigious National Science Foundation Award to Develop Polymeric Material to Control the Types of Energy Streaming into Windows with the Flick of a Switch

Liheng Cai and his students have developed a prototype crystal for active, fast control of light.

Pamela Frailey Faggert is the 22nd industry leader to serve as the Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor in Chemical Engineering.

Five chemical engineering Ph.D. students who took on professional internships reflect on what they gained outside the lab.

With newfound research compass, Beverly Miller is branching into less-explored territory of reproductive tissue engineering

Chemical engineering Ph.D. student Beverly Miller attended an intensive workshop on human reproductive biology research techniques, and it's opening new directions in tissue...

For three years running, chemical engineering alumni have earned School-wide honors

Chemical engineering alumnus Shailendra V. Bordawekar has received the 2019 Engineering Achievement Award, a School-wide recognition presented at the University of Virginia School...

UVA chemical engineering professor Bryan Berger and his lab are researching environmentally friendly methods to remove toxic chemicals from water and soil

Bryan Berger and his research team are developing novel ways to remediate soil and water contamination from widely used chemicals linked to serious health issues.

UVA chemical engineer, Matt Lazzara, convenes multidisciplinary, multi-institutional team to design combination therapy for pancreatic cancer

Matthew J. Lazzara, an associate professor of chemical engineering and researchers in his lab are devising a better way to pancreatic cancer.

Fourth-year Jonathan Zheng, whose latest award comes from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, talks about what makes him tick.

Chemical and biomedical engineering are two of four academic departments at UVA to take part in a three-year pilot that builds on the University’s Ph.D. Plus career development program.