ChemE Car Team earns first place!
A day at the races is always exciting -- especially when your team wins first place! Each year, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) ChemE Car Competition® engages college students in designing and constructing a car powered by... | LEARN MORE
Winston Ho's carbon capture research attracts $3.7M DOE grant
A new grant from the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy solidifies Ohio State's leading role in carbon capture research. A team led by the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering's Distinguished Professor of Engineering... | LEARN MORE
Bill Lowrie establishes second professorship in honor of beloved faculty, Umit Ozkan
Honor is a very important word to William G. (Bill) Lowrie ’66. Not for himself, but for people in his life who have inspired him. Lowrie, who retired from BP Amoco as deputy CEO in 1999, and his wife Ernestine have been Ohio State donors and volunteers since Mr. | LEARN MORE
Nicholas Brunelli's accomplishments earn him professorship, awards
Having recently been named to the American Chemistry Society’s 2018 Class of Influential Researchers, Nicholas Brunelli's latest research honor is the College of Engineering's 2019 Lumley Research Award. Last year, he had won a prestigious NSF... | LEARN MORE
CBE welcomes three new faculty
Xiaoguang (William) Wang joined Ohio State as a tenure-track assistant professor in January 2019 after working as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University with Professor Joanna Aizenberg on the design of functional materials based on stimuli-responsive... | LEARN MORE
Feinberg publishes book, gives Princeton University's William Pierson Field lectures
Professor Emeritus Martin Feinberg , a pioneer in the rapidly emerging field of chemical reaction network theory, has published a new, 454-page book on the theory, which aims to tie aspects of reaction network structure in a precise way to the variety... | LEARN MORE
Alumnus Yang Han wins Young Membrane Scientist Award
Yang Han, a recent Ph.D. graduate (December 2018) from Winston Ho ’s group, has received the 2019 Young Membrane Scientist Award from the North American Membrane Society (NAMS). This marks the fourth major award for Han. In the final year of his Ph.D. | LEARN MORE
NSF CAREER Award to support cancer research of CBE alumnus Shreyas Rao
Metastatic breast cancer cells lodging in the brain may rest in sleep mode before awakening to wreak havoc, but the reasons why the cells stay dormant and later become active is not fully understood. With the support of a five-year, $514,890 CAREER... | LEARN MORE
About Us
The Ohio State University is located in Columbus, Ohio, a thriving, multicultural Smart City that offers a low cost of living and a stable economy, vibrant neighborhoods, outstanding medical facilities, and a multitude of recreational, cultural, and intellectual opportunities.
The William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, situated in the heart of campus, is one of the oldest chemical engineering programs in the United States and is marked by a tradition of excellence. With The Ohio State University being one of the largest universities in the world, vast opportunities abound, yet within the program itself, many students experience a small, home-town or even family feel, and faculty report an environment of exceptional colleagiality.
Learn more about what makes the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering a top-rated program, and discover why College of Engineering Dean David Williams believes that Ohio State Engineering is a driver of economic development and what makes Ohio State and Columbus stand out.
Welcome to the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering!
Please browse our pages and read CBE Department Chair Andre Palmer's welcome message. Pictured above: Professor Palmer visits with the Class of 1980.
Explore the New Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry Building
From future-focused research in energy, advanced materials, and polymers, to bioengineering, cancer research, and drug delivery, some of the world's greatest challenges will be solved here.
Koffolt Laboratories, located in the new 225,000 gross sq. ft. CBEC (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry) building, offers state-of-the-art laboratory and classroom space and supports collaborative learning and intensive research.
Take a visual tour or take the #MannequinChallenge at Unit Operations Laboratory.
But most of all, come and see for yourself what the Wiliam G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is all about.
