Chemical & Petroleum News
Jun
16
An Eminent Engineer Comes Full Circle
Pitt Professor Taryn Bayles recognized by alma mater New Mexico State University
Jun
04
Expanding Engineering Opportunities Abroad
May
29
Pitt Professor Susan Fullerton Selected for Drexel University’s ELATES 2025 – 2026 Cohort
May
27
Pitt Students Shine Bright in NREL Solar District Cup
Interdisciplinary team places first in divisional nationwide solar design competition
Apr
28
Big Ideas for Miniature Subs
Pitt engineering scholar Priscilla Prem and team capture grand prize in the 2025 Big Idea Competition
Apr
11
Charles F. Bleil Celebrated as Swanson School Distinguished Alumnus in Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
Apr
11
New Round of NSF Fellowships Support Pitt Engineering Graduate Students
Apr
02
Ipsita Banerjee Inducted into the 2025 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
Mar
26
Ramsey Smith and Trey Blystone Receive the 2025 George Washington Prize
Mar
24
Coming Up for Air
Pitt engineering graduate Blake Dubé has navigated the many highs and lows of launching a successful startup
Mar
12
Four Swanson School Faculty Receive Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards
Mar
11
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
Mar
10
Anna Balazs wins the 2025 Gutenberg Research Award
Most prestigious research award of Mainz University for materials scientist from the University of Pittsburgh
Mar
03
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
Feb
27
Exploring Sustainability Through Many Lenses
Pitt’s Joaquin Rodriguez receives a $10,000 FHC award to promote hands-on, data-driven research across disciplines
Sep
30
Immunotherapy for Gum Disease?
Interdisciplinary Pitt Study in Mice Shows Promise
Sep
26
Pitt Engineering graduate students are finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition
Sep
18
Pitt Appoints Distinguished Professor Steven Little as the Bevier Endowed Chair
Sep
06
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
Aug
13
Sex and the Flu
Pitt and University of Wisconsin Researchers Seek to Understand How Hormones Impact Influenza in Men and Women
Jul
31
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Elevates Pitt Distinguished Professor Steven Little to Fellow
Jul
24
The Swanson School’s Sweetest Student
ChemE student Cailey Dolata receives the Future of Chemistry Scholarship for Women
May
07
Seven SSOE Faculty Receive 2023-24 Pitt Momentum Funding
May
06
The Clues for Cleaner Water
Pitt, Drexel, and Brookhaven engineers solve the “catalysis vs corrosion” mystery in electrochemical ozone production
May
01
Pitt’s Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Program Establishes Shiao-Hung Chiang Seminar Series