Rigoberto Advincula has received the 2026 Roy W. Tess Award, presented by the Division of Polymer Materials: Science and Engineering.

Belinda Akpa is involved in a multi-million-dollar collaborative initiative using predictive modeling and machine learning tools to design proteins that act against health threats. 

Junior Sierra Paolicchi has received an Advanced Undergraduate Research Activity award, supporting her ongoing research in strain and metabolic engineering.

PhD student Hannah Lenkowski helped launch the ChemE-Sports team at the University of Tennessee when she arrived on campus in 2023 to begin her studies.

Rigoberto Advincula has been named the winner of the 2026 George Stafford Whitby Award for Distinguished Teaching and Research.

Rigoberto Advincula will be speaking at the Society of Plastics Engineers International Polyolefins Conference and at a virtual webinar for the NAE.

Molecular biologists don’t usually enter engineering programs—except for Desirée Denman, who’s applying her experience to Paul Dalhaimer’s inflammation research.

Nikki Johnson knew she wanted to pursue a career involving chemical engineering, but she wasn’t sure what area would fit […]

Five faculty members from TCE, including our own Xianzhi Meng, have been named to Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list for 2025.

Rigoberto Advincula was nominated as a Distinguished Invited Speaker at the 2025 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit.