Top 10 Highlights of 2016
As 2016 winds down, let’s celebrate this year’s top 10 highlights…
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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 >> |
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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 >> |
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| The FDA recently approved the treatment called Anthim to treat inhalation anthrax in combination with antibacterial drugs. More >> |
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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 >> |
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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 >> |
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| Dr. Hal Alper was named Emerging Inventor of the Year by UT Austin’s Office of Technology Commercialization. More >> |
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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 >> |
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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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