Four Tickle of Engineering faculty members were elected as AAAS Fellows, including our own UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor Rigoberto Advincula.

Art Ragauskas is helping evaluate a new biofuel that blends perfectly with heavy fuel oil, reducing marine pollution without affecting fuel cost or performance.

Jonathan Coote graduated from the CBE PhD program in December 2022. Currently, he is a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota.

Travis Laws(’22) is a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PhD graduate. He is a current senior chemist specializing in marine coatings at Sherwin Williams.

TCE alum Tyrone Wells Jr. is part of an outreach that introduces grade-school students in the area to STEM ideas and projects through lessons including using household items to show how filtration works.

One year into a $1.4 million NSF grant, Belinda Akpa and Jennifer Richards are proving that transdisciplinary research and impactful outreach are a perfect pair.

Joint Associate Professor Belinda Akpa is combining her love of mathematics and chemical engineering to improve medicines and medical treatments.

Rigoberto Advincula has joined the department as UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Advanced and Nanostructured Materials, further strengthening the relationship with ORNL.

Students and faculty from CBE recently got a chance to travel to FIPR to test a developmental process for rare earth recovery from an alternative source.

Michael Kilbey, professor of chemisty and chemical and biomolecular engineering, is working with UT and ORNL on polymeric materials.