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Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow

Ogunnaike to visit University of Lagos in 2017 to strengthen chemical engineering program Babatunde Ogunnaike, dean of the University of Delaware College of Engineering, has been awarded a fellowship from the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program. The...

‘Perfect’ Soap Molecule

‘Perfect’ Soap Molecule

Discovery could have major impact on multibillion-dollar cleaning products industry A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has invented a new soap molecule made from renewable sources that could dramatically reduce the number of chemicals in...

Biofuel Breakthrough

Biofuel Breakthrough

PNAS paper reports new approach to methanol utilization Bio-fuels and bio-based chemicals have gained tremendous traction over the past decade as a means to produce alternatives to fossil fuels and to replace bulk chemical production methods that rely on...

Droning On

Droning On

UD’s Bingjun Xu awarded AFOSR Young Investigator grant The University of Delaware’s Bingjun Xu is one of 58 scientists and engineers across the U.S. to receive a three-year research grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator...

Incubator Opens

Incubator Opens

DTP@STAR welcomes 12 start-ups to new space at STAR Campus Norm Wagner takes the bus. Three stops and just a few minutes later, in less time than it takes to walk from his office to his parking lot, the chemical and biomolecular engineering professor arrives at his...

New Brew in Quest for Biofuel

New Brew in Quest for Biofuel

Mixotrophy twist leads researchers to higher yields, lower emissions You don't have to be a beer lover to understand the chemistry behind new research emerging from two labs at the University of Delaware and their collaborators at White Dog Labs in New Castle,...

Little Hybrids

Little Hybrids

NSF grant supports research on assembly of complex hybrid nanomaterials An old saying suggests that great things come in small packages, but when “small” means nanoscale, putting those packages together can be a challenge—particularly when they involve diverse...

Renewable Energy Leader

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

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

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...

Chemical Engineering Honors

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...

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