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Exciting news! The Alabama AIChE student chapter has won the bid to host the 2027 Southern Regional Conference! We’re excited to bring this event to UA after a successful pitch!

U. of Alabama Chemical & Biological Eng. had an incredible showing at URCA this year! Congratulations to Brooke Monti, Bryn Larson, Cate Martin, Sadie Jarrell, Liam Papier, Mia Eisenberg, and Preston Scott for their hard work and dedication in the competition!

Congratulations to undergrad students Blaire Barrett and Lenoire Lawing and graduate students Lauren Ward and Tanner Taylor for being recognized as the ChBE Outstanding Teaching Assistant winners at this year's Honors Day ceremony!

Congratulations to the class of 2025 on their graduation. U. of Alabama Chemical & Biological Eng. is extremely proud of the resilience and dedication our students demonstrated in pursuing their degrees, and we wish them well in the next chapter of their careers. Roll Tide!

We would like to highlight the Alexander Stanton Memorial Undergraduate Research award and this year's award recipients! This year, there were two recipients of this award and scholarship, Gabrielle Kowkabany and David Ball! Pictured: middle

The AIChE honored Liam Papier with the H.F. Johnson Jr. Memorial Senior Award. Owen Lubic received the Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Academic Excellence Award. Kennedi Houston received the Outstanding First Year Student Award. Amazing job to all recipients!

This year, @ua_chbe recognized Treycen Garton, Kate Glass, Lily Henne, Lenoire Lawing, Isabella Le, Trace McCaleb, and Madisson McMichael as outstanding juniors. Congrats on all of your hard work!

We so proud of our senior class @ua_chbe. we recognized Kyra Berger, Kristin Guillera, Mary Calvert Freeman, Olivia Cooley, Landon Eskridge, Katia Watkins, McKinley Hoffmann, Sadie Jarrell, Ashley Kearney, Carter Reynolds, & Kaylee Roch as outstanding seniors. Congrats to all!

We had the opportunity to honor @ua_chbe students for their outstanding performance in their research competitions. Paromita Sarker, Victor Olowookere, and Vraj Shah were the 3-Minute Thesis Competition winners, and Paromita won 2nd place in the UA competition. Congrats to all!

Congratulations to Kyra Berger and Prof. Ryan Summers on being selected as the Omega Chi Epsilon student chapter outstanding member and professor at this year’s Honors Day ceremony!

This week’s “Bama Bio” is on Prof. H. Hoyun Sun. His research interests are at the intersection of chemical engineering and materials science with a focus on battery materials as a medium to establish a renewable energy landscape.

This week’s Bama Research Spotlight is on Prof. Chao Zhao. Chao received funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for research on cold triggered local anesthesia for pain management.

This year U. of Alabama Chemical & Biological Eng. proudly introduced Justin Burney, Leland Weaver, and Kaitlyn Ryan as Department Fellows. All three have provided invaluable service to the department.

Congratulations to Dr. Shreyas Rao for receiving the 2025 Excellence in Community-Engaged Scholarship Award for Engaged Teaching and Learning! He was selected for this honor by UA’s Council on Community-Based Partnerships.

U. of Alabama Chemical & Biological Eng. is very proud of Ademola Soyemi, a student in Prof. Szilvasi’s lab, for winning Best Thesis Research award at the University of Alabama level. Congratulations Ademola!

Today’s Bama Bio is Dr. Stephanie Loveland. Her interests include the application of fundamental chemical engineering concepts in the Unit Operations laboratory, Chemical Process Safety, and Technical Communication.

This week's Bama Research Spotlight is on Prof. Steven Weinman. Steven received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research on molecularly-regulated interfacial polymerization to engineer selective polyamide reverse osmosis membranes.

We would like to congratulate Ashu Anand, a HS student in Dr. Koh’s lab, on placing 3rd in the Materials Science Category at the 2025 Regeneron Science and Engineering Fair. She began at the Regional Level and excelled at the International level. We’re so proud!

This week's "Bama Bio" is on Dr. Shreyas Rao. Shreyas has been with U. of Alabama Chemical & Biological Eng. since 2015 and his research team is developing engineering tools to study how cancer mechanisms are related to microenvironmental factors. eng.ua.edu/eng-directory/…

Congratulations to Dr. Tibor Szilvási on receiving the prestigious ACS COMP OpenEye Cadence Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. His pioneering research in computational chemistry and molecular design is driving innovation and advancing the future of materials science.