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CBE Alumni Spotlight: Kirsten Riley
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Kirsten Riley is a Chemical Engineering alumna from the University of Iowa. She is currently working at Bayer and a member of the CBE Advisory Board. Learn more about Kirsten and how she has utilized her ChemE degree throughout her career!
CBE Alumni Spotlight: Shiljashree Vijay
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Shiljashree Vijay is a Chemical Engineering alumna from the University of Iowa. She is currently a senior product and development engineer at SunHydrogen. Learn more about Shiljashree and how she has utilized her ChemE PhD throughout her career!
CBE Student Spotlight: Cade Machin
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Cade Machin is a fourth year undergraduate student in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
CBE Student Spotlight: Hossein Zare
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Hossein Zare is a fourth year PhD student in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Global leaders visit Iowa Engineering to learn about agricultural sensor research
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Leaders from around the globe visited the University of Iowa College of Engineering as part of a State Department-sponsored tour of U.S. agriculture and technology innovation that is supporting farmers.
Baldes, Marquez named 2026-27 Iowa Innovation Leadership Fellows
Monday, August 31, 2026
Carson Baldes, a PhD student in chemical and biochemical engineering, and Tyce Marquez, a PhD student in biomedical engineering, have been selected for the Iowa Innovation Leadership Fellows Program, a year-long educational experience designed to immerse emerging leaders in the dynamic world of healthcare innovation.
University of Iowa researchers examine the environmental journey of everyday chemicals
Thursday, August 27, 2026
A team of researchers from the University of Iowa and the University of Colorado Boulder recently explored what happens to the chemicals in personal care product in a review article published in Nature Reviews Chemistry.
NSF supports Iowa engineers' nighttime wildfire forecasting efforts
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
As wildfires grow more frequent, intense, and destructive across the United States, researchers at the University of Iowa (UI), led by Prof. Jun Wang, have secured a National Science Foundation grant to study how fires behave after dark.
UI engineering alumna elected fellow of American Meteorological Society
Friday, August 7, 2026
Yang Zhang, a University of Iowa engineering alumna and current professor at Northeastern University, has been elected as a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
Iowa students join NASA mission to study wildfire clouds
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
University of Iowa engineering students are helping researchers collect data on pyrocumulonimbus clouds formed by intense wildfires.
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