UVA researchers’ new polymer strategy shifts a centuries-old engineering paradigm with a molecular design that doesn’t sacrifice stretchability for stiffness.

Third- and fourth-year students battled it out in the annual turkey-cooking competition, a rite of fall for ChemE majors.

University of Virginia professors of chemical engineering Bill Epling and Roseanne Ford were recently elected fellows of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Professor William Epling's lab has discovered a way to make a common manufacturing chemical more efficiently, allowing smaller, flexible production sites to replace massive factories.  

University of Virginia researchers advance understanding of chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer, offering hope for new treatment strategies.

A physically and mentally challenging ropes course helps new chemical engineering undergrads acclimate to the teamwork and on-the-fly thinking skills that make engineers makers of a better world.

Researchers are trying to overcome the ephemeral nature of peptides, which might otherwise be powerful medicine. A UVA team has found one approach.