UCLA Chemical Engineer Joseph Peterson Receives NSF CAREER Award for Characterizing Polymer Deformation
UCLA Chemical Engineer Receives ACS Petroleum Research Fund Grant to Advance Light-Driven Catalyst Research
Steven Chavez, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been awarded a Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS). This honor supports early-career investigators pursuing new...
CBE Professor Samanvaya Srivastava Co-Leads $1.9M NSF Initiative on Cell-Free Biomanufacturing
Announcing the CBE 2025 Outstanding Student Awards
CBE 2025 Outstanding Student Awards
CBE Professor Yuzhang Li Receives Top Early Career Honor for Research and Teaching
CBE Doctoral Student Xintong Yuan Named Schmidt Science Fellow
Special Seminar on ARPA-E: “The Outlook for Critical Minerals for Energy Dominance” by Douglas Wicks
On May 1, 2025, Douglas Wicks, program director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, gave a guest lecture at a seminar hosted by UCLA Samueli, where he shared insights on the major challenges facing the mining and processing of critical minerals and constrained mineral supply chains due to geopolitics. He was introduced by Alissa Park, the Ronlad and Valerie Sugar Dean, who is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and civil and environmental engineering.








