UCSB Chemical Engineering

Meet Phineas Lehan, he’s days from receiving his bachelor’s degree in ChemE. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to student activities and the community, he is UCSB College of Engineering's 2024 Hynes-Wood Award recipient. He’s headed to the materials science PhD program at Caltech in the fall. Read his inspirational story and why staying busy during school helped in more ways than one. https://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/Recognition-Outstanding-Contributions

ICYMI: The Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) received its seventh consecutive major grant to operate as an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. The latest renewal establishes two interdisciplinary research groups that include several chemical engineering faculty to investigate electrostatically mediated polymer processing and bioinspired plasticity National Science Foundation (NSF)
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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 and striving to enhance student success. https://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/excellence-teaching

Poignant news for the UCSB Chemical Engineering. On Saturday, March 11, two of our department’s original faculty members -- Robert G “Bob” Rinker and Orville “Joe” Sandall — were laid to rest. Their memorial services -- and subsequent stories and conversations with friends, family and students -- reinforced the remarkable and dedicated service to which each devoted their lives, and their quiet humility in that pursuit. We are fortunate to have had them.

UCSB chemical engineering assistant professor Arnab Mukherjee and his collaborator at Penn have received a Scialog award for their project that aims to improve the sensitivity of MRI-based cellular imaging. Using Mukherjee's expertise in reporter-gene technology, they hope to increase the sensitivity from thousands of cells per voxel (3-D pixel) down to single-digits. It's work that could shed light on disease-relevant processes at the molecular and cellular levels. https://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu/news/imagining-future-imaging