UCSB faculty member Emilie Dressaire will use her recent NSF CAREER award to work on flows in microgels. Made of soft, slippery particles, these gels more closely resemble the body's extracellular environment than many traditional gels used to study cells, cell aggregates and microbes. Image credit: Brian Long
UCSB’s Emilie Dressaire receives an NSF CAREER award to study transport in microgels that may help cancer research.
“What I’ve always appreciated about chemical engineering as a field is its value of the elegance and impact of working out difficult problems from a fundamental point of view,” says UCSB chemical engineering professor Scott Shell, winner of the 2026 Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering. Photo credit: Lilli Walker
Chemical engineering professor Scott Shell receives AIChE award for advances in molecular simulation and multiscale modeling.
UC Santa Barbara engineering faculty members (from left) Daniel Oropeza and Yangying Zhu recently received an award from the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU) to investigate a reusable thermal protection system that could protect Earth-bound spacecraft from the heat of re-entry. Photo credit: Lilli Walker
UCSB engineering team receives inaugural award to design reusable systems for spacecraft returning to Earth.
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