Amit Goyal, SUNY Distinguished Professor and SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in UB’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, was honored for his lifetime research and innovative contributions, impact and accomplishments including his recent election as Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, with the 2025 Council of Heritage and Arts of India (CHAI) 2025 Person of the Year Award.
University at Buffalo scientist Amit Goyal has been elected a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, a prestigious honor recognizing his seminal contributions to the field of applied superconductivity.
Investors Hangout reported that Amit Goyal is among the 15 nominees for the 2025 Global Energy Prize, an award for outstanding achievements in scientific and technical R&D in the field of energy. WIVB also reported on the list.
Seven Chemical and Biological Engineering faculty members have secured $24 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over the last seven years.
UB Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Blaine Pfeifer was awarded $2.5M from the National Institutes of Health to design pneumonia vaccines tailored for older patients.
UB faculty member Stelios T. Andreadis has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
UB CBE Professor Miao Yu is part of the largest Advanced Research Projects Agency– Energy grant ever awarded, with about $1.5M coming to UB, plus $500k matching from New York State, to study renewable ammonia production and utilization.
Ashlee Ford Versypt was named a 2021 Influential Researcher according to Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, an American Chemical Society publication.
Professor Miao Yu has recently received the Neil Yeoman Innovation Award from the AIChE for his outstanding contributions to solving energy and environmental problems using nanoporous materials.
The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University at Buffalo congratulates Professor Haiqing Lin, who received the SUNY award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
Paschalis Alexandridis, UB Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been recognized as one of the world's top-cited researchers in a study conducted by Stanford University researchers.
Haiqing Lin was recognized for his continuous contributions to the development of high-performance membrane materials for CO2 capture from fossil fuel-based processes and the impact on industrial membrane technology.
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Stelios T. Andreadis was awarded $2.4M R01 grant from the National Heart and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health to investigate the role of the immune system in successful implantation of tissue engineered vascular grafts that were developed in his laboratory.
UB Distinguished Professor Paschalis Alexandridis has been elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), an honor given to those who have made a great impact in fields of the chemical sciences.
Professor Sriram Neelamegham was elected fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), an honor given to the most accomplished leaders in the BME field.
Stelios Andreadis, SUNY Distinguished Professor delivered a plenary lecture representing Division 15D/E (Engineering Fundamentals in Life Sciences) at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Assistant Professsor Elina Kyriakidou has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from U.S. DOE-NREL for low temperature CH4 conversion by developing a novel aftertreatment system for future natural gas vehicles using palladium-based catalysts.
Mark Swihart has been elected a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in recognition of his contributions to chemical engineering research.
Johannes Hachmann has received an NSF award with the "Spokes: MEDIUM: NORTHEAST: Collaborative: Advancing a Data-Driven Discovery and Rational Design Paradigm in Chemistry." project.
The newly-established Department of Engineering Education seeks to study and implement new strategies for scaling and translation of engineering education research findings into widespread classroom practice.
Gang Wu has received an award from the National Science Foundation for his " Designing Nitrogen Coordinated Single Atomic Metal Electrocatalysts for Selective CO₂ Reduction to CO" project.
Professor Sriram Neelamegham received the 2018 Schoellkopf Medal in recognition of his work in the areas of vascular bioengineering and glycoengineering.
Johannes Hachmann has been awarded the NSF CAREER award for his project, entitled "Building an Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for the Data-Driven Design of Chemical Systems and the Exploration of Chemical Space".
Goyal is an internationally recognized materials scientist, Empire Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and director of the University at Buffalo’s RENEW Institute.
