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The department has never been stronger, with the largest student body in CBE’s history and research expenditures and productivity are near all-time highs.


Overview of the soft materials research being performed within the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.


The department welcomes alumni Michael Harris and James Porter Jr. as Hall of Fame inductees for 2017.


University of Minnesota’s Matthew Neurock spoke about sustainable energy conversion as part of the department’s 2017 Troy C. Trotter Distinguished Lecture.


Ferguson Faculty Fellow Cong Trinh received the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award for 2017 for his research ViPaRe.


UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Art Ragauskas received AIChE’s prestigious “Program Committee’s Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering.”


Recent research by post-doctoral researcher Hanieh Niroomand was published in Nature‘s highly regarded Scientific Reports.


Senior Research Associate Gabriel Goenaga received the 2017 TLSAMPE Champion Award.


CBE junior Christopher Neal was named a 2017-18 Goldwater Scholar, one of the nation’s highest, most selective awards for undergraduate students.


Charles Moore was inducted into Control’s Hall of Fame for his willingness to share, promote, and disseminate knowledge and contributions to society.