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Apr 8
2025
UCSB Chemical Engineering Ranked in Top Ten for 24th Straight Year
For the 24th year in a row, the chemical engineering graduate program at UC Santa Barbara has ranked among the top ten public universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate Engineering Schools report, which was released on April 8. The graduate school rankings were based entirely on peer surveys submitted by department heads at public and private... read more »
Apr 1
2025
James B. Rawlings Honored for Extensive Contributions to Chemical Engineering
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the world’s largest organization for chemical engineering professionals, has awarded one of its most prestigious honors to UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings, selecting him for the 2025 John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer Award, an accolade given to a distinguished... read more »
Mar 27
2025
Distinguished Contributions: Professor Rachel Segalman Elected AAAS Fellow
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor Rachel Segalman has received a distinguished honor within the scientific community by being elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a commendation bestowed upon less than 1 percent of AAAS members each year. She is among 471 scientists, engineers, and innovators... read more »
Mar 4
2025
Honoring Excellence: Chandraki Chatterjee Awarded Smiley Scholarship
rom helping students thrive in the classroom and in campus housing, to conducting undergraduate research at UCSB and at a national laboratory, Chandraki Chatterjee has remained extremely active while pursuing her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Recently, a committee in the Chemical Engineering Department selected the fourth-... read more »
Feb 26
2025
Adding Nickel Atoms to Improve a Silver Catalyst
Few people have heard of the chemical ethylene oxide, but all of us have used products that rely on it for their production, from antifreeze and plastics to textiles and disinfectants. It is what’s known as a platform chemical — one that is the basis for many other chemicals — and it’s worth about $40 billion per year on the global market. But the ethylene oxide... read more »
Feb 20
2025
Anukta Datta Receives Prestigious Schlinger Fellowship
Chemical engineering faculty at UC Santa Barbara have awarded fifth-year PhD student Anukta Datta the department’s prestigious Schlinger Fellowship for Excellence in Chemical Engineering Research for the 2024-‘25 academic year. Established through a generous gift from Warren and Katharine Schlinger, the award recognizes a fourth- or fifth-year doctoral... read more »
Feb 6
2025
Professor M. Scott Shell Elected AIChE Fellow
UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor M. Scott Shell has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the world’s leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with nearly sixty thousand members from more than one hundred ten countries. The institute’s highest grade of membership, achieved only... read more »
Dec 12
2024
Michelle O'Malley Appointed to the Cliff R. Scholle Endowed Chair
The UC Santa Barbara Chemical Engineering Department recently honored Professor Michelle O’Malley for her pioneering research and appointment to the Cliff R. Scholle Endowed Chair with an inaugural lecture and investiture. The chair was established through a generous gift from Cliff R. Scholle, as a way to honor early leaders in the department: Professors... read more »
Dec 2
2024
UCSB Ranks Eighth Globally for Interdisciplinary Research
“Research without walls” isn’t just a phrase at UC Santa Barbara; it is the very foundation of the university’s academic endeavors. This is especially true within the College of Engineering, where new discoveries have been made and impactful technologies designed through interdisciplinary research. The college has long embraced a culture of collaboration and is home to... read more »

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