News
Feb 22
2016
2016
Professor Michelle O'Malley has been chosen to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her work in deciphering the role of enzymes in the gut fungal microbiome. The award is the highest honor the nation can bestow on a scientist or engineer at the beginning of his or her career. Professor O’Malley is one of 105... read more »
Feb 8
2016
2016
Professor Michael Doherty is one of 80 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2016.
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where... read more »
Jan 13
2016
2016
Professor Michelle O'Malley has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award!
Her proposed work "CAREER: Designing Synthetic Anaerobic Communities for Bioproduction" will construct new partnerships between microbes that are inspired by natural anaerobic consortia.
The CAREER award, said O’Malley, will allow her and her research group to decipher how nature... read more »
Oct 15
2015
2015
Congratulations to Professors Rachel Segalman and Todd Squires, new Fellows of the American Physical Society.
Professor Segalman was elected to the Division of Polymer Physics for "pioneering contributions to the understanding of conjugated, polypeptoid, and ion-containing polymers and co-polymers."
Professor Squires was elected to the Division of Fluid Dynamics for "... read more »
Aug 18
2015
2015
Professor Michelle O’Malley was named by MIT Technology Review as one of its 2015 "35 Innovators Under 35." The prestigious annual list honors exceptionally talented young technologists whose work has great potential to transform the world.
“I am honored to be recognized by MIT Tech Review as one of their Innovators Under 35,” said O’Malley, who is considered by the... read more »
Jul 21
2015
2015
Professor Bradley Chmelka has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the engineering sciences discipline!
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is an independent organization, renowned for the annual awarding of the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Economics. Election to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is an exclusive... read more »
Jul 2
2015
2015
When Rachel Segalman returned to the UCSB campus as a professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials last year, it seemed like a new and exciting place compared to the late 90s when she was a chemical engineering graduate student. At the time, Segalman helped a newly-hired Professor Edward Kramer build his lab. She was the first PhD student to graduate from his group in... read more »
May 27
2015
2015
Professor Matthew Helgeson has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the US Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program. Under the program, university-based researchers will receive at least $150,000 per year to cover summer salary and research expenses.
Complex fluids are at the heart of Helgeson’s research. These are materials that exhibit properties... read more »
Jan 15
2015
2015
In recognition of his academic achievements, Scott Lynn, a chemical engineering junior, has been selected as a recipient of a 2015 National Engineers Week Scholarship.
“I feel honored,” said Lynn, a chemical engineering junior who is currently researching microfluidics with a focus on stop-flow lithography in the lab of Professor Matthew Helgeson. Lynn commented that... read more »
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