Author: Angelina Sagardui | Major: Chemical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 I have been synthesizing and characterizing aerogels from cellulose-starch mixtures for advanced packaging applications with the help of my mentor, Dr. Ali Ubeyitogullari of the Food Science...
Understanding Diseases from the Lab and the Computer
Author: Sydnee Ehorn | Major: Chemical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 Hi! My name is Sydnee Ehorn, and I am a chemical engineering major. Over the course of the spring and fall semesters of 2022, I have been a part Dr. Karthik Nayani’s research team studying the...
Investigations into Lignin-Based Biodegradable Plastic Films
Author: Collin Larsen | Major: Chemical Engineering | Semester: Summer 2022 Over the course of the 2022 summer grant term, I worked alongside my honors research mentor, Dr. Keisha Walters of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and graduate research mentor, David...
Spending the Semester at Tyson Foods
Author: Austen Lee | Major: Chemical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 My name is Austen Lee. I am currently majoring in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. Every Friday of the semester, I spent my evening at the Tyson Foods engineering office on...
Presenting Two Undergraduate Research Projects at the AIChE Annual Student Conference
Author: Andie Veeder | Major: Chemical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 For the past year, I have utilized electrodeionization (EDI) to separate important, large, organic sugar acids for the use in biofuel production. Through EDI, an electric current is applied to a...
AIChE National Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
Author: Hector Apodaca Reyes | Major: Chemical Engineering | Semester: Fall 2022 My name is Hector Apodaca, and I am a senior majoring in Chemical Engineering. My research focuses on the study of the stability of six bilayers of Heparin-Collagen Layer-by-Layer...
Summer in France
Author: Samantha Glidewell | Majors: Chemical Engineering and French The French in Perpignan program was the perfect choice for me because as an engineering major there simply is not enough time in my degree plan to devote a whole semester to studying abroad for my...
Ciao Italy!
Author: Avery Fiser | Major: Chemical Engineering Summer of 2022 will forever be my favorite as I studied abroad in Florence, Italy for five weeks. I was ecstatic about living in a beautiful city where I would be taking an Intro to Marketing class. Little did I know...
Romeing around Italy
Author: Russ Tharp | Major: Chemical Engineering My name is Russ Tharp and this summer I took part in the University of Arkansas Rome Center’s Summer Campus program. I am majoring in chemical engineering, and I am going into my junior year. In Italy, I took a class...
Haggis, Highlands, and Heriot-Watt
Author: Grace Martin | Major: Chemical Engineering and Food Science If you haven’t heard of haggis before (like I hadn’t), it’s a Scottish meat pudding made of the heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep, resembling a sausage. Once sliced and cooked with the traditional...