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Dr. Ana Morais Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
The Wonderful Institute of Sustainable Engineering is proud to congratulate Dr. Ana Morais on receiving the highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.
Undergraduate Researchers from EARTH and WISE Take All Top Honors in Poster Competition
The 2026 Graduate Engineering Association (GEA) Engineering Research Showcase at the University of Kansas marked a standout moment for undergraduate research, with students from NSF Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) and the Wonderful Institute for Sustainable Engineering (WISE) delivering an exceptional and sweeping performance in...
WISE Researcher Publishes Article Supporting Next-Generation Refrigerant Recovery Technologies
Yuniva Mendoza-Apodaca, a researcher with the Shiflett Research Group at the Wonderful Institute for Sustainable Engineering (WISE), has published a new research article in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research focused on improving how refrigerants—critical to air conditioning and cooling systems—can be separated and reused more efficiently, supporting global efforts to reduce environmental impact.
Alan Allgeier named director of KU’s Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis
Alan Allgeier, Don W. Green Professor of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, has been named director of the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis at KU, effective immediately.
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