Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering News

The six-story, privately funded, $115 million Kiewit Hall - which opened Jan. 22, 2024 - will be the College of Engineering's academic hub for undergraduate education. (Craig Chandler / University Communication & Marketing)
January 22, 2024 - Kiewit Hall - a six-story, privately funded, $115 million facility that opens Jan. 22, 2024 - is redefining how traditional academic spaces help prepare students for career successes.  Full Story

Craig Zuhlke (left), George Gogos (back), and Graham Kaufman pose with the now active Leybold ultra-high vacuum laser surface processing and materials analysis system in the Engineering Research Center. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
November 30, 2023 - The Center for Electro-Optics and Functionalized Surfaces is now home to a first-of-its-kind laser in the United States to be used for a specialized method of surface modification that could improve manufacturing methods.  Full Story

Shudipto Dishari helps Rafael López (left) and Sreyan Saha (right) as they play with cars powered by green energy using biomaterials. Dishari, the Ross McCollum associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, recently began work on a three-year, $489,134 grant from the National Science Foundation that could revolutionize the way devices produce, transport and store electricity. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
October 20, 2023 - An NSF grant is supporting Shudipto Dishari's research to create polymers using cells of recycled Christmas trees and corn plants to help make electrochemical devices greener and more efficient.  Full Story

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln team working on the MICRA project includes (from left) Taro Mieno, agricultural economics; Daniel Schachtman, agronomy and horticulture; Saleh Taghvaeian, biological systems engineering; and Seunghee Kim, civil engineering.
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Shudipto Dishari, Ross McCollum associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
September 14, 2023 - Shudipto Dishari and her research team are converting plant wastes into antimicrobial agents that could help prevent pathogenic infections and death while significantly lowering the cost of antimicrobial treatments and being a boon to the bioeconomy.  Full Story

Shudipto Dishari, the Ross McCollum Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was recognized by as one of the PMSE 2023 Early Stage Investigator Award recipients at the Fall Meeting in August.
September 05, 2023 - Shudipto Dishari was honored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and its Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) division as one of the recipients of its 2023 Early Stage Investigator Award.  Full Story

In August 2023, four College of Engineering faculty - (from left) Justin Bradley, Shudipto Dishari, George Gogos and Rajib Saha - were awarded named professorships.
August 28, 2023 - In August 2023, four College of Engineering faculty - Justin Bradley, Shudipto Dishari, George Gogos and Rajib Saha - were awarded named professorships.  Full Story

Mohammad Ghashami (left), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, speaks with LPS teachers at Morrill Hall. (University Communication and Marketing)
August 11, 2023 - Nebraska Engineering researchers were among the 22 University of Nebraska-Lincoln research groups who shared their latest work with 150-plus Lincoln Public Schools science teachers at a STEM fair on Aug. 9, hoping to help the teachers to better educate th  Full Story

Maryam Sule, a chemical engineering student from Bellevue, Nebraska.
August 08, 2023 - Maryam Sule, a chemical engineering student and a Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy scholar, discusses working in the Rural Fellows program this summer on projects at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture.  Full Story

Rachael Wagner and Shane Farritor look over a robotic surgery device in the Virtual Incision facility. (University Communication and Marketing)
August 03, 2023 - Innovative ideas that stretch from rich farmlands to high-tech medical and computer labs have again landed the University of Nebraska System among the world’s leading academic institutions for earning U.S. patents.  Full Story