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ChBE Assistant Professor R. Kōnane Bay has received two prestigious honors: a 2026 U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award and recognition on the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ 35 Under 35 list. Both honors recognize her innovative work in materials research.
Kristi Anseth, distinguished professor and Tisone professor of chemical and biological engineering, and Christopher Bowman, distinguished professor and James and Catherine Patten endowed chair in chemical and biological engineering, were among the 11 distinguished scholars selected.
Janet deGrazia, a beloved 鶹ý chemical engineering educator and mentor, inspired generations of students during her nearly two decades of teaching at the university.
Assistant Teaching Professor Trevor Franklin is the recipient of 鶹ý's 2026 John and Mercedes Peebles Innovation in Education Award.
In this Q&A, Assistant Professor Ankur Gupta discusses how his team used AI to solve a decades-old fluid mechanics problem in weeks, revealing that a nanoparticle's overall shape, not its surface texture, determines how it moves in an electric field. The finding could help scientists design nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery and medical diagnostics.
Assistant Professor Cody Ritt received the North American Membrane Society Young Membrane Scientist Award, one of the membrane science community's highest honors for early-career researchers.Presented last week at the
Associate Professor Wyatt Shields received an Army Research Office Young Investigator award to develop programmable microscopic robots
Aashna Bhatt, a bioengineering student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, received the Clough-Weimer Summer Research Fellowship to conduct research in the Fox Lab during 鶹ý's Young Scholars Summer Research Program. Her research explores how kinases recognize cellular targets, with potential implications for understanding disease and developing new therapies.
Chemical engineering PhD student, Annette Thompson, earns the 2025 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
In 2021, Arianna McCarty was a high school junior taking calculus 3 and planning a future in medicine. When the pandemic hit, she turned an unexpected setback into a new direction — one that led her to engineering and launched a fast-rising career in research.