Department News
Manufacturing USA Headquarters
Secretary of Commerce visits UD to announce new institute Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker visited the University of Delaware today, where she announced a new institute to advance U.S. leadership in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The Newark-based National Institute...
Rapid Breakthroughs
UD to lead major node of new national chemical manufacturing institute The University of Delaware has been tapped to lead a major node in the new Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Manufacturing Institute led by the American Institute of...
Master Class in UD Research
Five show powerful global impact of faculty and student work After a morning of regalia and pomp, as is traditional for a presidential inauguration – with special guests, family flown in from far-flung places, dignitaries from Delaware, the White House and especially...
Chemical Engineering Honors
Yan wins AIChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award Yushan Yan, Distinguished Engineering Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been selected to receive the 2016 Nanoscale Science and...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...