Syahida Farhan Azha, a doctoral student undertaking research in wastewater treatment won first, beating all other engineering contestants in the Three Minutes Thesis taking place at the USM’s Dewan Budaya in Penang.

The School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia celebrates the recent achievement of Mr. Zulkarnain Mohamed Idris, a doctoral student who has been awarded the Robert S. McNamara Fellowship by the World Bank. Zulkarnain is currently working on a project entitled 'Synthesis of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Ordered Mesoporous Composite for Biomolecules Recovery' under the supervision of Dr. Azam Taufik Mohd Din. He will be leaving for a 9-month research attachment beginning July 2017 until March 2018 in Lund University, Sweden working in the laboratory of Professor Emeritus Dr. Bo Mattiasson. Bo is a renowned scientist in the field of biotechnology and had published many high impact publications as well as edited a number of research books in the area. He will supervise Zulkarnain during the 9-month stay in Lund.

8 March 2017, The School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia has once again soared from its 46th ranking in 2016 to number 38 in the world this year. This marked the second time the School received the same ranking by the prestigious Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings. The first was in 2013.

1 February 2017. Two excellence students from the School of Chemical Engineering managed to secure a scholarship for each of them under the programme offered by the Macro Dimension Concrete Sdn. Bhd. (MDC). Rajaviknesswaran Singaravelan and Kalaivani Rangasamy, both from the second year’s Chemical Engineering, Bachelor Degree attended the ceremony, which was held at the MDC headquarters in Sungai Petani, Kedah. The other three out of five students were each from the School of Civil Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Housing, Building and Planning, (HBP).