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Our mission is to educate the next generation of visionaries, prepare students for leadership in diverse careers, create knowledge, and provide multidisciplinary solutions to broad societal problems.

09/04/2026

Eric Karp, Ph.D. '12, is the keynote speaker for the upcoming Department Research Showcase! Karp is CEO of Safion Renewables, a Colorado-based company developing and commercializing renewable chemicals and low-carbon fuels. He has built his career at the intersection of scientific research, technology scale-up and entrepreneurship. In 2023, Karp won ChemE's Early Career Impact award.

Learn more about Karp and register for the research showcase at cheme.washington.edu/research-showcase

09/01/2026

Nick Porter (B.S. ‘26) found a surprising way of applying the skills he gained in the ChemE research lab to create a thank you gift for faculty member Dr. Alex Prybutok. Working alongside facilities manager Benjamin Hornburg, Porter used his skills in 3-D printing and Computer Aided Design to create seven custom PEZ dispensers resembling himself and his classmates. Along with his peers, Porter presented the dispensers to Prybutok at the end of the academic year.

Swipe through the photos to see the (somewhat horrifying) transformation from 3-D scan to custom PEZ head.

Read more of the story and find step-by-step instructions to create your own custom PEZ heads: https://www.cheme.washington.edu/news/article/2026-07-27/cheme-seniors-devise-perfect-gift-dr-prybutok-custom-pez-dispensers

08/26/2026

Whether they're adventure buddies, travel partners or couch-potatoes, our pups are paw-fect! Happy national dog day! 🐾💜💛

08/25/2026

Just one month until the Department Research Showcase! Join us to hear from ChemE alumni and learn about graduate student research across the department.

Thursday, September 24, 1-7 p.m.
Nanoengineering & Science Building, 181 and Commons
Seattle campus

Learn more at https://www.cheme.washington.edu/research-showcase

08/20/2026

The Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar is excited to welcome Mariah Arral for the final talk in the series next Tuesday, August 25.

Arral is a postdoc at Tufts University, where she is working on silk-biomaterials. She will deliver her talk, "Diversity by Design: S*x, Age, and Disease Modeling for Inclusive Drug Delivery," next Tuesday from 4-5 p.m. on Zoom.

Learn more about Arral at https://www.cheme.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D205233550

08/18/2026

Dr. Cole DeForest, professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, has received an additional five years of support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will support the continuation of his lab’s work in developing methods for studying human development and disease progression in four dimensions, examining changes in both 3D space and time.

This work will “fundamentally transform our knowledge of basic cell physiology,” DeForest says, thereby “laying the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.”

Learn more about DeForest's work at www.cheme.washington.edu/news/article/2026-07-27/dr-cole-deforest-receives-renewed-funding-nih-studying-biology-4d

08/14/2026

Better late than never, right?! We love these photos of the ChemE class of 2026. 💛💜🥰

08/12/2026

The next Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar will feature Samuel Adotey, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Adotey will give his talk, "Tailoring Ionic Conductivity of Polymeric Ionic Liquid Block Copolymers through Morphology Control," on Tuesday, August 18 from 4-5 p.m. on Zoom. Adotey's research connects fundamental polymer physics with practical materials design, with the goal of establishing design principles for scalable, high-performance energy materials.

Find Adotey's bio along with more event details at https://www.cheme.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D205233547

08/10/2026

Dr. Shachi Mittal, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded an Early-Career Investigator Travel Award by the National Cancer Institute. This award will support Mittal in presenting her research at the 15th Early Detection Research Network Scientific Workshop this fall.

“This is an incredible honor,” Mittal says. “It’s an opportunity to share this work with the EDRN community alongside leaders who have shaped the field of early cancer detection, and it means a great deal to see our work recognized as relevant to the network's mission."

Learn more about the work Mittal will present at the Early Detection Network workshop at www.cheme.washington.edu/news/article/2026-07-27/dr-mittal-awarded-early-career-travel-grant-national-cancer-institute

08/06/2026

Next week's speaker in the Distinguished Young Scholar Seminar series – Paul Sagoe!

Sagoe is a Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University, where his research focuses on "developing macrophage-targeted micro- and nanotechnology platforms for drug delivery and immunomodulation in osteoarthritis and inflammatory diseases."

Learn more about Sagoe's research with his talk, "Tiny but Mighty: Polymeric Platforms for Targeted Macrophage State Reprogramming in Osteoarthritis," next Tuesday, August 11, from 4-5 p.m. on Zoom.

Learn more about Sagoe and see the rest of the speaker lineup at cheme.washington.edu/calendar

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