ChEnected Posts by Sonja Bradfield

Sonja Bradfield

Social Media and Communications Specialist

AIChE

Sonja Bradfield is the Social Media and Communications Specialist at AIChE.

Spread the Word of the $40K FOSSI Scholarship Deadline with Your Network

January 05, 2024. By Sonja Bradfield

If you know a student planning to attend an HBCU next year, this STEM scholarship could change their life.

Chemistry Shorts: Frosty Formulations

4/9 in the series Chemistry Shorts Video Series

December 26, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

Learn about the complex science behind making ice cream in this video, and check out the accompanying lesson plan that was created for high school and college classrooms.

School Students Explore STEM and Chemical Engineering at 2023 K–12 STEM Showcase

November 22, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

On November 5th around 100 attendees, including K–12 students, their parents, and educators gathered at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting to participate in the K–12 STEM Showcase.

mSBW Conference Keynote Ami Bhatt on Microbial Genomics

June 16, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

Hear from physician-scientist Ami Bhatt (Stanford) about the work in microbial genomics that she’ll be presenting this month in San Jose, CA.

James C. Liao Receives Gregory N. Stephanopoulos Award for Metabolic Engineering

May 25, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

Dr. Liao will receive the award at the Metabolic Engineering Conference taking place in Singapore organized by the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES).

Stay Connected with Technical Communities through LinkedIn

April 25, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

Get a closer look at specialty areas with these LinkedIn technical communities for relevant content, news, and networking in advanced manufacturing, safety, and bioengineering.

Five Ways to Celebrate Earth Day 2023 with AIChE

April 21, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

Looking for ways you can help protect the planet as a chemical engineer for Earth Day 2023? Here are five ways that will have lasting effect.

Learn How AIChE Career Discovery Can Benefit You

6/10 in the series Showcasing AIChE's Institute for Learning & Innovation (ILI)

March 31, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

Find internships, connect with new chemical engineering career opportunities and paths, access member-only benefits for your job search, and more.

AIChE Celebrates International Women’s Day

11/19 in the series AIChE Observes Women's History Month

March 08, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

Learn what you can do as part of AIChE and at the upcoming Spring Meeting and GCPS in Houston to help women advance in chemical engineering.

Chemistry Shorts: Driving Reactions

5/9 in the series Chemistry Shorts Video Series

February 02, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

This video is an engaging teaching aid for high school and college students to help directed evolution and how it is being used to develop new tools for plastics recycling and more.

Apply for the WISE Internship by February 1

January 11, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

WISE internships give chemical engineering students the opportunity to research public policy topics for nine weeks in Washington and understand how chemical engineering and public policy can productively interact.

Spread the Word of the $40K FOSSI Scholarship Deadline with Your Network

January 06, 2023. By Sonja Bradfield

Do you know a STEM student headed to an HBCU who could benefit from a $40K scholarship? Tell them about FOSSI!

2022 AIChE Gala: Engineering the Extraordinary

December 07, 2022. By Sonja Bradfield

AIChE celebrated the contributions of Christophe Beck (Ecolab) and Michael K. Wirth (Chevron), and honored Paula T. Hammond (MIT) with the Doing a World of Good Medal.

Chemistry Shorts: How Science Is Creating New Sources of Water

6/9 in the series Chemistry Shorts Video Series

May 31, 2022. By Sonja Bradfield

As water becomes more scarce in many areas of the world, chemical engineers and others in the chemical sciences are finding new ways to harness previously disregarded sources and develop water recycling methods.

Highlights from the 2022 AIChE Spring Meeting & 18th GCPS

April 27, 2022. By Sonja Bradfield

See photo highlights from San Antonio, where chemical engineers from 35 countries recently met in person for the 2022 Spring Meeting.

2021 Langer Prize Awarded to Aditya Kunjapur

January 26, 2022. By Sonja Bradfield

Kunjapur and his research group at the University of Delaware are designing innovative biomolecular technologies to address a variety of societal needs.

Join the First #AIChEchat on Twitter

September 03, 2021. By Sonja Bradfield

Join other chemical engineers on Twitter for a live chat about renewable natural gas on September 15 at 1PM EST by following our handle @CheEnected and the hashtag #AIChEchat. Anyone is welcome to join.

Summer 2021 Featured Engaged Discussions

August 20, 2021. By Sonja Bradfield

Check out Engage’s top bioengineering and chemical engineering discussions of the summer.

Featured Series

2026 Institute & Board of Directors’ Awards

BY ON October 05, 2026

AIChE’s Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards are AIChE’s highest honors, and candidates are nominated by the chemical engineering community and voted upon by the members of AIChE’s volunteer-led Awards Committee. The prizes recognize outstanding achievements and world-class contributions across a spectrum of chemical engineering endeavors.

Improve Your Process Safety Knowledge to Manage Risk and Support Safer Operations

BY ON July 30, 2026

Process safety education plays a critical role at every stage of an engineer’s career. In this three-part series, experts from the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) explore how engineers can build and strengthen the knowledge, judgment, and habits needed to manage risk and support safer operations.

Meet the Process Engineers

BY ON January 08, 2018

In this series, we discuss process engineering with a wide range of process engineers working in a variety of industries, whether in petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, food processing, or any other process-intensive industry.

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Check out AIChE's newest member benefit, AIChE Engage. Use the robust directory search to find and connect with members. Participate in technical, career, and academic discussions about chemical engineering.