The 2017 PMSE Young Investigator’s Symposium has been chosen as a recipient of this year’s PMSE Division 2016 Innovative Project Grant (IPG).  This symposium will be held at the 253rd ACS National Meeting and Exposition in April 2017. The objective of the Symposium is to create a signature event highlighting Young Investigators who have excelled in Materials Research... read more »

UC Santa Barbara Chemical Engineering welcomed Assistant Professor Siddharth Dey to the department in March 2017. Professor Dey's research focuses on understanding the design principles that govern how biological systems develop and function. Specifically, his group is interested in quantifying how the genome or epigenome regulates gene expression, thereby influencing... read more »

The NSF-funded ESTEEM (Enhancing Success in Transfer Education for Engineering Majors) program, led by Professor Susannah Scott, targets promising engineering transfer students, offering scholarship funding, outreach and academic counseling to help them move toward their degrees. The initiative builds on a previous, successful smaller-scale effort to reach out to third-... read more »

Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, Rachel Segalman, and Materials Professor Michael Chabinyc have received a $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy which will allow them to investigate ways of improving thermoelectric performance in polymeric materials. Their work may yield new materials that can turn heat into energy or — vice-versa — energy into... read more »

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Dale Seborg who has been made a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)! The IFAC is the worldwide organization tasked with promoting the science and technology of automatic control in all systems, whether for example, engineering, physical, biological, social or economic, in both theory and application.... read more »

The UCSB Grad Post has written a wonderful article about Dr. Duncan Mellichamp, Professor Emeritus and one of the founding faculty members of the UCSB Department of Chemical Engineering. To read about Professor Mellichamp's contributions to the campus and the community over his 50 years at UCSB, the full article can be found here.

Congratulations to Professor Michelle O'Malley who recieved her PECASE Award this week in Washington, DC and got to meet President Obama! (high resolution photo) The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE, 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... read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »