Recent Updates

Recent External News  (past external news click here)

March 2025: Gilchrist gives talk on the intersection of art and rheology at the Lehigh Interdisciplinary Research and Arts Symposium

March 2025: Highlight in Scienmag of our research on the ISS

March 2025: Local news interview with WAFF48 in Alabama

November 2024: Samples launched to the International Space Station!

September 2024: Gilchrist to receive the 2024 PSRI Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems Award

May 2024: Resolve highlights cover article and microroller research
(see Page 4 and Page 6)

January 2024: A trifecta of cover-worthy research

January 2024: 2023: 10 Great Lehigh Research Stories (listed as #5)

September 2023: Nature's photo team selects our work as one of "September's best science images"!

September 2023: Lehigh researchers make sand that flows uphill.
More press coverage here, including EurekAlert, ScienceAlert, Science Daily, Cosmos, Ars Technica, and others. 

August 2023: Alumni Bulletin: Sending Science into Space

April 2023: Alumnus Dr. Alexander Weldon (Ph.D. 2014) profiled by Lehigh Communications - article here

November 2022: Gilchrist elected AIChE Fellow (also 1, 2, 3)

November 2021: Resolve: 'Rocket' Science

November 2021: Resolve: Brewing Interest

November 2021: NSF-Funded Research Could Use Microgravity to Improve Virus Detection and Respiratory Illness Treatments

Group News Highlights (past group news click here)

June 2025: We kicked off another summer filled with UG research projects.  See here.

May 2025: Congrats to Nazrin Hasanova for successfully defending her proposal!

March 2025: Back on the ISS - Nazrin Hasanova leads more experiments in space!

October 2024: Professor Gilchrist is selected as the AIChE 2024 PSRI Fluidization and Fluid-Particle Systems Awardee. (read here) 

September 2024: Congrats to Nazrin Hasanova for co-organizing a successful Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Symposium! 

July 2024: Congratulations to the Mountaintop Summer Experience students for their outstanding presentation at the Lehigh EXPO and their "Audience's Choice Award"! See them here

July 2024: Our recent article on encapsulated mobile Janus particles is featured on the front cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B! (image here)

May 2024: Nazrin Hasanova is selected as president of the Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association (ChEGA).  Congrats!

May 2024: Professor Gilchrist is honored with the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering Experiential Learning Excellence Award.

April 2024: Brianna Sauder '24 presents research from our MTSE program at the 2024 David and Lorraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium.

December 2023: Our article in Soft Matter, led by Dr. Samuel Wilson-Whitford, is featured on the front cover of the journal. (image here)

November 2023: Our recent publication in Soft Matter is selected as part of their "Soft Matter Recent Hot Articles"

November 2023: Thank you to our UG Doug Hardy and all those who serve to protect our country on this Veterans Day!

September 2023: Our Nature Communications paper has been published and getting attention: More information here.

August 2023: The apparatus for our TABOOS NSF-CASIS research has arrived on the International Space Station!  Read more here.

June 2023: Current graduate student Nazrin Hasanova '21 and alumna Lizzie Ocher '19 highlighted in college article about connections between coffee, cosmetics, and chemical engineering,

June 2023: Our Mountaintop Summer Experience project on Active/Responsive Granular Matter has kicked off!

June 2023: Professor Gilchrist gives a Keynote Lecture at the ACS Colloids and Surface Science meeting at NC State.

May 2023: Congrats to our recent Lehigh graduates Marietta Sisca, David Kramer, and Lucy Moos!

April 2023: Professor Gilchrist gives a talk in the Northwestern Institute for Complex Organizations (NICO). You can see his abstract and talk here.

January 2023: Inside the classroom: Making materials from particle-based processes

January 2023: Our article in ACS Applied Optical Materials, led by Jinghui Gao, is featured on the supplemental cover of the journal.