Department News
TAKING AIM AT PLASTIC WASTE
The Center for Plastics Innovation (CPI), led by Professors LaShanda Korley and Thomas H. Epps, III, will focus on chemically transforming plastic waste into fuels, lubricants and other valuable products in an energy-efficient manner. It is one of six new Energy Frontier Research Centers established across the U.S. and the second to be directed by the University of Delaware.
$18 MILLION FOR UD
A new center at the University of Delaware will advance research to transform the way materials are made. The UD Center for Hybrid, Active, and Responsive Materials (UD CHARM) will drive fundamental materials science research with the potential to enable critical innovations in biomedicine, security, sensing and more.
NIIMBL grants will accelerate COVID-19 response
In a time of crisis, the ability to respond quickly can be the difference between life or death. Quick turns are not typical when the need is for new medicines, vaccines or diagnostic tests, though. Such advances usually require years, not months.
A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF PROTEIN MOVEMENT
A team of engineers has shown that surface diffusion in protein transport into ion-exchange beads depends on adsorption affinity — a measure of attraction between the two materials.
FACULTY PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED
The University of Delaware Board of Trustees approved the promotions of 72 faculty members
New Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Faculty
The University of Delaware Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will add two new faculty members in 2021: Alexandra Bayles and Kevin Solomon.
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT JUNETEENTH
Holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Babatunde Ogunnaike, William L. Friend Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware, is joining leaders from other top universities as a member of the provisional committee for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology’s new three-year study: Chemical Engineering in the 21stCentury: Challenges and Opportunities.
NIIMBL GETS $8.9 MILLION FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE
The National Institute for Innovation in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing (NIIMBL) headquarters is in the new Ammon Pinizzotto Biopharmaceutical Innovation Building on the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus. UD-based...
Why Toothpaste and Cement Harden Over Time
UD engineer part of international collaboration that explains aging in paste materials
NSF GRADUATE RESEARCH SEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
14 UD students and alumni receive funding to pursue educational goals.
NSF GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
UD students (left to right, top row first) Alexandra Oliveira, Ana Sheehan, Ariel Hannum, Brandon Vance, Elizabeth Smith, Emily Mongold, Patricia L. Hurley and Rebecca Davis were awarded fellowships by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.