Posts Tagged ‘Kudos’

John J. McKetta Jr. Honored for Service to Local Senior Citizens

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John J. McKetta Jr. Honored for Service to Local Senior Citizens

Professor Emeritus John J. McKetta Jr. received the Philanthropist of the Year Award for his outstanding service to local senior citizens from LeadingAge Texas, a non-profit servicing the needs of Texas retirees, at the organization’s 54th Annual Meeting and Trade Show in Austin, Texas.

LeadingAge knows John McKetta as the “man with a golden … Read the rest »

Improving Water Recycling at Hydraulic Fracturing Sites

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Improving Water Recycling at Hydraulic Fracturing Sites Professor Benny Freeman and team have developed high-efficiency, durable filters to significantly reduce the amount of water and energy hydraulic fracturing requires

Peppas Receives Benjamin Garver Lamme Award for Teaching Excellence

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Peppas Receives Benjamin Garver Lamme Award for Teaching Excellence

Nicholas A. Peppas, Biomedical Engineering Department Chair, Director of the Center on Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Bionanotechnology and professor of biomedical engineering, chemical engineering and pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin, received the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award at a special awards ceremony held at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEERead the rest »

Alper Selected for NAE’s Prestigious Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

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Alper Selected for NAE’s Prestigious Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Assistant Professor Hal Alper has been selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 2013 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium September 19-21 in Wilmington, Delaware.

Eighty-one of the nation’s brightest young engineers will participate in this year’s annual symposium, which is attended by invitation only. Participants are usually nominated by NAE members or department chairs … Read the rest »

Alum Honored by White House

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Alum Honored by White House Amar Sawhney, Ph.D. ChE '92, has been nationally recognized as a Champion of Change for his entrepreneurship

Two Seniors Win Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence

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Two Seniors Win Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence

Seniors Ashty Karim and Leon Dean received George H. Mitchell Awards for Academic Excellence given by the University Co-operative Society.  The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering was the only department to produce two winners.

The awards celebrate University of Texas at Austin students with exemplary academic records who have made an extraordinary contribution to their … Read the rest »

No.1 for NSF Fellowships

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No.1 for NSF Fellowships

The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering boasted more National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship recipients than any other chemical engineering department nationwide for 2013. Twelve McKetta students recently received NSF Fellowships to support their graduate studies, nearly 42 percent more than runner-up University of California, Berkeley.

“We are so proud of these talented students who are … Read the rest »

Poehl Named Director of Process Industry Practices Consortium

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Poehl Named Director of Process Industry Practices Consortium

Professor Michael Poehl has been named director of Process Industry Practices (PIP), a consortium of process industry owners and engineering construction contractors at The University of Texas at Austin.  PIP, a sub-unit of the Construction Industry Institute (CII), harmonizes member companies’ internal standards for design, procurement, construction, and maintenance into a set of industry-wide practices … Read the rest »

University of Texas at Austin’s Reputation Ranks 27th in the World

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University of Texas at Austin’s Reputation Ranks 27th in the World

The University of Texas at Austin is ranked No. 27 in the 2013 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, a comparison of the world’s top 100 most powerful university brands. The ranking is a five-point climb for the university, which ranked No. 32 in 2012.

The rankings, based on the largest invitation-only survey of … Read the rest »

Graduate Student Cara Touretzky Wins CAST Directors’ Student Presentation Award From the AIChE

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