Two prominent student groups affiliated with UIC’s Chemical Engineering Department joined forces to welcome back students with dinner and presentations to explain current research ongoing in the department. Members of GrACE discussed CHE…
By David Staudacher, UIC PhD candidate Alireza Ahmadian Yazdi has taken his studies outside the laboratory and into the working world. The College of Engineering student jumped at the opportunity to take on…
What can’t graphene do? You can scratch “detect cancer” off of that list. By interfacing brain cells onto graphene, researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have shown they can differentiate a single…
Dr. Gang Cheng, PhD from University of Washington Seattle (2009) joined the Chemical Engineering faculty as an associate professor with tenure. Prior to this appointment at UIC, Cheng was an associate professor and…
Dr. Shafigh Mehraeen, PhD from Stanford University (2011) joined the Chemical Engineering faculty as an assistant professor. Prior to this appointment at UIC, Mehraeen was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. After two-year postdoctoral…
Dr. Meenesh R. Singh joined the Department of Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor and will be the director of the Materials and Systems Engineering Lab (MaSEL) at UIC. Prior to his appointment…
Chemical Engineering Department Professor Brian Chaplin received a new NSF-grant entitled “Multifunctional Electro-reactive Membranes for Efficient Biomass Separation” worth $160,000.
Deisy Arrington (PhD student in Berry Research Lab) won the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRF) worth $138,000. Arrington is performing research on using novel functionalization schemes on graphene for cancer…
Associate Professor Ying Liu was named a recipient of the 2015 UIC Researcher and Scholar of the Year given out by the UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR). “These honors…
Assistant Professor Ying Liu received the prestigious NSF CAREER award entitled “Understanding Nanoprecipitation – Scalable Production of Polymeric Nanoparticles Encapsulating Hydrophobic Compounds.”
Assistant Professor Vivek Sharma received the Distinguished Young Rheologist Award from TA Instruments. This award, which includes an instrument grant, is bestowed on a promising young researcher nominated by an international panel of…
New Scholarship Program: UIC Chemical Engineering Department received $599,766 NSF S-STEM Grant to increase enrollment of women in chemical engineering.
The Department of Chemical Engineering welcomed Dr. Sangil Kim, who joins the faculty as an assistant professor. Prior to his appointment at UIC, he was a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
Associate Professor Vikas Berry‘s research group’s latest paper published in Scientific Reports was featured in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal (R&D Section), EE-Times, Motherboard, and several other news outlets. The…
Chemical engineer and South Carolina educator Michael D. Amiridis was named UIC chancellor/vice president. Before serving as the executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina, Amiridis…
Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Brian Chaplin receives NSF CAREER Award entitled “Development of Reactive Electrochemical Membranes for Sustainable Water Treatment Applications: An Integrated Research and Education Plan”.
Associate Professor Vikas Berry joins the Department of Chemical Engineering. Berry Research Lab studies the electrical, structural, and chemical properties of innovatively designed nano- and bio- materials to enable the development of the…
Assistant Professor Brian Chaplin joins the Department of Chemical Engineering. The focus areas of Chaplin Labs are environmental chemistry and water treatment.
