Chemical & Petroleum News

An Eminent Engineer Comes Full Circle

Pitt Professor Taryn Bayles recognized by alma mater New Mexico State University

Expanding Engineering Opportunities Abroad

Pitt Professor Susan Fullerton Selected for Drexel University’s ELATES 2025 – 2026 Cohort

Pitt Students Shine Bright in NREL Solar District Cup

Interdisciplinary team places first in divisional nationwide solar design competition

Big Ideas for Miniature Subs

Pitt engineering scholar Priscilla Prem and team capture grand prize in the 2025 Big Idea Competition

Charles F. Bleil Celebrated as Swanson School Distinguished Alumnus in Chemical & Petroleum Engineering

New Round of NSF Fellowships Support Pitt Engineering Graduate Students

Ipsita Banerjee Inducted into the 2025 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows

Ramsey Smith and Trey Blystone Receive the 2025 George Washington Prize

Coming Up for Air

Pitt engineering graduate Blake Dubé has navigated the many highs and lows of launching a successful startup

Four Swanson School Faculty Receive Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards

Improving Density Functional Theory One Flaw at Time

Pitt researcher Karl Johnson and scholar Priyanka Bholanath Shukla collaborate to help strengthen an essential electron theory

Anna Balazs wins the 2025 Gutenberg Research Award

Most prestigious research award of Mainz University for materials scientist from the University of Pittsburgh

Reinventing the (Lubricant for Hard Disk Drives) Wheel

Pitt’s Lei Li receives an industry grant to develop a new nanometer-thick lubricant for hard disk drives—one without PFAS

Exploring Sustainability Through Many Lenses

Pitt’s Joaquin Rodriguez receives a $10,000 FHC award to promote hands-on, data-driven research across disciplines

Immunotherapy for Gum Disease?

Interdisciplinary Pitt Study in Mice Shows Promise

Pitt Engineering graduate students are finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition

Pitt Appoints Distinguished Professor Steven Little as the Bevier Endowed Chair

The Glug of it All

A paper recently published by a Pitt professor and his son studies how the flexibility of containers affect how fast they drain

Sex and the Flu

Pitt and University of Wisconsin Researchers Seek to Understand How Hormones Impact Influenza in Men and Women

American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Elevates Pitt Distinguished Professor Steven Little to Fellow

The Swanson School’s Sweetest Student

ChemE student Cailey Dolata receives the Future of Chemistry Scholarship for Women

Seven SSOE Faculty Receive 2023-24 Pitt Momentum Funding

The Clues for Cleaner Water

Pitt, Drexel, and Brookhaven engineers solve the “catalysis vs corrosion” mystery in electrochemical ozone production

Pitt’s Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Program Establishes Shiao-Hung Chiang Seminar Series