Department News
Renewable Energy Leader
Vlachos appointed Ferguson Professor and UD Energy Institute director Dionisios G. Vlachos has been named the inaugural Allan and Myra Ferguson Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He also has been appointed director of the...
Better Fuel Cell Membranes
UD awarded $1.8 million through new ARPA-E program aimed at transforming energy storage, conversion The University of Delaware has been awarded $1.8 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) through its...
Sept. 1: ACS Webinar
Wagner to present on use of shear thickening fluids in protective equipment Norman Wagner, Unidel Robert L. Pigford Chaired Professor in the University of Delaware’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will deliver an American Chemical Society...
Fuling the Quest for Green Energy
Read article here: https://research.udel.edu/2016/08/18/energy/
Chemical Engineering Honors
Papoutsakis receives Murphree Award from American Chemical Society Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis, Unidel Eugene du Pont Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, has won the E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering...
Supporting Research Partnerships
6 new projects funded through Delaware Bioscience CAT program The Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology (Bioscience CAT) has awarded a new group of grants. The Bioscience CAT grants synergize efforts between the academic and industrial bioscience research...
Polymer ‘Pens’
Epps, DuPont receive NSF funding to develop new approach to manufacture nanostructured arrays Miniaturization of electronic devices has been ongoing since well before the first room-sized computer was built more than half a century ago. A hand-held smart phone now...
Exemplary Achievements
Students honored for dissertations, prof for exceptional mentoring As the University of Delaware recognized more than 160 students who completed their doctoral studies at the Doctoral Hooding Convocation held May 27 on The Green, top prizes went to six students and...
‘Distinguished Achievements’
UD alumnus Arup Chakraborty elected to National Academy of Sciences Arup Chakraborty, who earned his doctoral degree in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware in 1988, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his...
Peace Corps Plans
Graduation and Peace Corps on horizon for two UD seniors Two University of Delaware students, John McCarron and Bridgette Spritz, have been selected as Peace Corps volunteers. Ghana and Rwanda will become home to McCarron and Spritz shortly after this weekend’s...
Chronic Wounds
NIH grant supports research to engineer new biomaterials Chronic wounds cause nearly 80,000 lower leg amputations annually in the U.S. alone and are associated with an increased likelihood of death. While the body generally repairs acute wounds in a predictable series...
UDefend
Seniors challenged to develop vaccine and diagnostic test for Zika virus Zika virus was first discovered in 1947, but for more than six decades it was regarded as more of a nuisance than a public health emergency — the illness is usually mild, with symptoms lasting a...