MIT chemical engineering

The School of Engineering welcomes 15 new faculty members across six of its academic departments. This new cohort of faculty members, who have either recently started their roles at MIT or will start within the…

Cancer Grand Challenges recently announced five winning teams for 2024, which included five researchers from MIT: Michael Birnbaum, Regina Barzilay, Brandon DeKosky, Seychelle Vos, and Ömer Yilmaz. Each team is…

Chemical engineering does not typically start out as a “hands-on” field of study. Thanks to Bradley Olsen and his new course for MIT freshmen, 10.00 (Molecule Builders), that will change starting in Spring 2016.…

Production of chemical fertilizers accounts for about 1.5 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. MIT chemists hope to help reduce that carbon footprint by replacing some chemical fertilizer with a more…

Kristala L. J. Prather ’94, the Arthur Dehon Little Professor, has been named the new head of the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChemE), effective Jan. 1, 2024. “Professor Prather has already demonstrated…

William H. Dalzell ’58, SM ’60, ScD ’65, a longtime lecturer in chemical engineering at MIT and station director for the David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice, passed away on April 13 after a…