Top 10 Highlights of 2016
As 2016 winds down, let’s celebrate this year’s top 10 highlights…
![Stephanie Butler square](https://che.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/Stephanie-Butler-square.jpg) |
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Stephanie Watts Butler received the highest Society of Women Engineers award, Jim Rawlings was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and Haiqing Lin received an NSF CAREER Award. More >> |
![First Senior Class Gift Recipient Kyle Dalal head shot First Senior Class Gift Recipient Kyle Dalal head shot](https://che.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/Kyle-Dalal_Homepage.jpg) |
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Kyle Dalal received the first Senior Class Gift Award. The endowment was created in 2013 by students for students to support top TAs and undergraduate research. More >> |
![George Georgiou Headshot of George Georgiou](https://che.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/Georgiou-George-20141904-4-FINAL.jpg) |
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The FDA recently approved the treatment called Anthim to treat inhalation anthrax in combination with antibacterial drugs. More >> |
![Tom Edgar wins the Bellmann Award Tom Edgar stands in front of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering building for winning the Bellmann Award.](https://che.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/Tom-Edgar-from-the-AIChE-film-The-Promiselight1.jpg) |
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Dr. Tom Edgar’s leadership in clean energy research helped secure $140 million for UT Austin’s new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute. More >> |
![Professor and Alumnus Michael Piana poses at the front of his ChE 379 Entrepreneurship class. Professor and Alumnus Michael Piana poses at the front of his ChE 379 Entrepreneurship class.](https://che.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/Piana.jpg) |
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Alumnus Michael Piana established ChE 379 Entrepreneurship, an elective to introduce students to the basic concepts of entrepreneurship and practical approaches to monetizing business ideas. More >> |
![Pennebaker, Jamie and Ruth 2014](https://che.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/Alper-Hal-20163270-2-1-1024x1024.jpg) |
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Dr. Hal Alper was named Emerging Inventor of the Year by UT Austin’s Office of Technology Commercialization. More >> |
![Clock Knot](https://che.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/Clock-Knot.jpg) |
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The UT System Board of Regents committed $100 million to support the construction of the Energy Engineering Building, a critical step in securing UT Austin’s continued leadership in energy education and research. More >> |
![mcketta_100_gala-146](https://che.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/mcketta_100_gala-146.jpg) |
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Alumni, corporate partners and Texas ChE friends exceeded the campaign’s $25 million goal— marking the most successful department fundraiser in Cockrell School history. More >> |
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U.S. News & World Report ranked Texas ChE as the No. 3 best undergrad chemical engineering program—our highest ranking yet. More >> |
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