2025

Feb 26

Student spotlight: Savi Thompson

In her chemical engineering courses, undergraduate Savi Thompson is learning to understand large-scale processes with an approach she can also apply to quantum systems.

Feb 20

New tool brings vector search to the scientific literature

John Kitchin created litdb, a Python package that helps researchers curate and use their own literature database.

Feb 19

CMU Rales Fellows Harness Unique Perspectives To Drive Innovation

Chemical engineering Ph.D. student Abraham Polanco is part of the inaugural cohort of CMU Rales Fellows.

Feb 14

Student, scholar, teacher, researcher

As a Fifth Year Scholar, Gabe Mendez-Sanders (‘24) is preparing for a career in engineering education research.

Feb 10

Lifting the fog on air pollution-weather interactions

The Gordon Group uses case studies from Delhi and Paris to realistically simulate fog droplet concentrations in a weather forecasting model.

Feb 06

Student spotlight: Megan Walsh

Through her research with a large pharmaceutical company and her internship in the hospitality and decarbonization sector, Ph.D. student Megan Walsh is working to make processes more efficient.

Jan 31

Alum spotlight: Stephanie Butler Velegol

A pioneer of flipping the classroom, Stephanie Butler Velegol (‘00) has dedicated her career to training chemical engineering students how to think.

Jan 28

Instrument teaches skills for automated experimentation

John Kitchin built Claude-Light to teach students and researchers how to control a remote instrument and how to analyze the data that comes from it.

Jan 21

Student spotlight: Ali Asger

Ph.D. student mentors welcomed Ali Asger to the department. He’s now become a mentor so that students from a variety of backgrounds have the opportunity to join him.

Jan 16

Studying the chemistry of cloud formation at CERN

Neil Donahue is interested in the way that organic compounds participate in making the molecular clusters that grow into atmospheric particles.

Jan 10

Student spotlight: Teresa Myrthil

Through the National Society of Black Engineers, undergraduate Teresa Myrthil has found research and internships that allow her to balance her technical skills with social sciences and psychology.

Jan 06

Carl Laird named head of Chemical Engineering Opens in new window

Carl Laird has been selected to be the next head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering.

Media Mentions


Niepa reappointed to USNC/IUPAC

ChemE/BME's Tagbo Niepa was reappointed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine as Member of the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Usman wins Three Minute Thesis preliminary

ChemE Ph.D. student Huda Usman was co-winner of preliminary round 4 in the Carnegie Mellon Three Minute Thesis competition. Usman, who works with ChemE/BME’s Tagbo Niepa, presented “Culturing the Unculturable: A New Frontier in Antibiotic Research.”

Grossmann named Foreign Academic

ChemE’s Ignacio Grossmann was selected as a Foreign Academic of the Chemical and Physical Sciences Section of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences of Spain.

Nature Chemical Engineering

Whitehead speaks about the future of chemical engineering research

ChemE’s Kathryn Whitehead spoke with Nature Magazine about the future of the field of chemical engineering, particularly her excitement about transporting RNA treatments to new organ destinations.

More Mentions