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Aidiel Hassan next to poster presentation.

Curiosity to contribution: Aidiel’s journey from research to recognition

For Aidiel Ikmal Bin Abu Hassan, a graduating senior in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, his interest research began small and grew into something far more…

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Robert Jacobberger
October 13, 2025

With DARPA Young Faculty Award, Jacobberger will develop industry-ready diamond semiconductors

Robert Jacobberger, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has earned a 2025 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award. The highly…

Sebastian Kube
October 6, 2025

Sebastian Kube earns DARPA Young Faculty Award

Sebastian Kube, an assistant professor in materials science and engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has earned a 2025 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award. The highly competitive…

Chang-Beom Eom
September 30, 2025

With NSF-funded DMREF project, Chang-Beom Eom puts a new twist on complex oxide research

Chang-Beom Eom, the Raymond R. Holton Chair for Engineering and Theodore H. Geballe Professor in materials science and engineering, and Mark Rzchowski, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,…

Whitney Loo
September 29, 2025

An NSF DMREF award will help Whitney Loo design polymers critical to making next-gen computer chips

Whitney Loo, the Conway Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is part of a four-year project selected by the National Science Foundation Designing…

Siddarth Krishna
September 26, 2025

CBE faculty are using an NSF DMREF award to find new dynamic catalysts for producing ammonia fertilizer

A team of chemical and biological engineering researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are part of a four-year project selected by the National Science Foundation Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future…

Tanuj Kumar, wearing safety glasses, a beige patterned shirt, and blue pants stands in a laboratory next to scientific equipment.
August 21, 2025

Tanuj Kumar awarded NASA fellowship to advance far-infrared optics research

Tanuj Kumar has been awarded a prestigious NASA fellowship to support his research in far-infrared (far-IR) optics, an area of growing importance for space-based telescopes. He was one of just…

William Murphy
June 20, 2025

Murphy leads effort for shelf-stable mRNA vaccine pills

William Murphy, the Harvey D. Spangler Professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedics and rehabilitation, will lead a project to develop messenger RNA therapies that can be stored at room temperature….

Joshua Brockman
May 6, 2025

Brockman receives NIH MIRA grant

Joshua Brockman, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to support…

Xudong Wang with wound healing device
March 18, 2025

MS&E and surgery researchers team up to enhance wound healing

Chronic wounds—wounds that haven’t started to heal after several weeks of treatment—affect over 6.5 million people in the U.S., are a threat to patients’ health and quality of life, and…

Corn field
February 4, 2025

CBE researchers are part of a $2.8 million effort to create plant-based “living refineries”

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering are part of a team selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E),…