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Eric Kazyak lab tour fall 2023

Three new electrochemistry research labs open exciting opportunities for ME students

Three new electrochemistry-focused research labs are now open in Mechanical Engineering (ME), led by ME faculty members Eric Kazyak, Luca Mastropasqua and James Pikul. These labs are working together on…

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UW Crest with engineering background
April 22, 2024

Michael Graham receives top award in rheology

Michael Graham, the Steenbock Professor of Engineering and Harvey D. Spangler Professor in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the recipient of the 2024 Eugene C….

April 19, 2024

Reconstruction Time Line of CBE Summer Lab Space

Fall 2020-Spring 2021 Develop initial scope and select architects. Fall 2022 Construction begins. Contractors complete most of the demolition by December 2022 with excavation continuing into January 2023. Spring 2023…

Class photo of students in the first summer lab session in the summer of 1994
April 17, 2024

Spotlight on Badger Alumni: chemical engineer Joe Moidl

Joe Moidl (BSChE ’94) is now the Vice President of Innovation, Technology and Quality at General Mills, but he was once a Badger engineering student, attending lectures and having a…

April 12, 2024

Mavrikakis featured on the MRS Bulletin Materials News podcast

Manos Mavrikakis, the Ernest Micek Distinguished Chair, James A. Dumesic Professor, and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was recently interviewed for…

operational laboratory in the chemical and biological engineering department
April 11, 2024

Laboratory construction brings constructive learning

For two years the new instructional lab and pilot plant for the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering has been under construction. Named the John C. Kuetemeyer Instructional Laboratory and…

students in fermentation lab
April 5, 2024

Students draft the first fermentation lab

Down in the depths of the basement in Engineering Hall, something is brewing…. This semester, Brian Pfleger, a Karen and William Monfre Professor and a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of…

Profile of Houqian Li in his lab office
February 29, 2024

Houqian Li Wins Inaugural ACS Early Career Postdoctoral Faculty Bridge Grant

With his eye on upcycling waste plastics into high-value chemicals, Houqian Li moves forward with his research with the support of a two-year grant in the form of salary for…

February 17, 2023

Get to Know CBE’s Graduate Student Admissions Team

Two key people involved in the CBE PhD admissions process,  Kate Fanis and Professor Reid Van Lehn, share with me information about their roles, their decisions to work in the department, and their love for Madison. They also share the most exciting parts of being a CBE graduate student.

February 14, 2023

Summer Lab Success

Summer lab students share some of their recent food related experiments.

cheese experiment samples
December 30, 2022

Cheeseheads at CBE

Summer Lab group partners Margaret Shen and Katie Karjala worked on a cheesemaking experiment where they tested different kinds of milk and coagulates to determine which combination would give the highest yield.