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Chemical Engineering

University of California, San Diego
The Chemical Engineering Program in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego offers MS and PhD degrees. Applications are accepted online only. Apply at http://graduateapp.ucsd.edu/. GRE scores are required. TOEFL scores are required for international students. Visit http://chemeng.ucsd.edu/ for faculty and research information. E-mail: mae-gradadm@mae.ucsd.edu.

University of Michigan
The department's main research areas are in energy (fuel cells, catalysis, environmental and reaction engineering), complex fluids (polymer solution rheology, colloids), nanotechnology (synthesis, simulation), and biotechnology (genomic sequencing, cell signaling, drug delivery). For more information, call Ms. Susan Hamlin (734-763-1148), e-mail: che-gradquestions@umich.edu, Web site: http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/cheme/.

University of Washington
The Department of Chemical Engineering offers a vigorous research program with a nationally recognized faculty, excellent facilities, and support for all full-time graduate students. Research areas include materials and interfacial phenomena, biochemical engineering and bioengineering, nanoscience and nanotechnology, simulations, and sustainable energy. For more information, see the department's Web site at www.cheme.washington.edu/.

Yale University
Actively engaged in research on nanotechnology and nanomaterials, colloid/interfacial transport phenomena, adsorption of biomolecules at interfaces, environmental and molecular biology, colloidal forces, rheology of complex fluids, separation of biomaterials, protein interactions, synthesis of mesoporous materials, polymer physics, catalytically stabilized combustion, spectroscopy of supported catalysts, nucleation and growth of thin films, mechanisms of surface processes, transport phenomena in multiphase chemically reacting systems, environmental separation processes, membranes and biointerfaces.