Jovan Kamcev Wins Paper of the Year
Jovan Kamcev has been awarded the Graduate Student Paper of the Year Award and the Marion Johnson South Texas Section Society of Plastics Engineers Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Chemical Engineering worth $4,000, for his paper entitled “Partitioning of mobile ions between ion exchange polymers and aqueous salt solutions: … Read the rest »
Tom Truskett, professor and chairman of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, will be awarded the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) Impact Award for his creative and pioneering work elucidating how nanoscale interfaces impact structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of complex fluids and biomolecular systems.… Read the rest »
Alumnus Tarik Khan (Ph.D. ’12) has been elected as the new vice chair of the Biotechnology Section of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). Khan is a former student of the Maynard Lab Group.
“This recognition by his fellow scientists is a testament to the his ongoing contributions and leadership in the pharmaceutical field,” … Read the rest »
Alumnus Sam Crowther has held a number of roles since graduating with his bachelor’s degree from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering in 1957. He has been called a chemical engineer, a consultant, an entrepreneur, a science fair judge, a Sunday school teacher, an author and most recently, the mentor of the year for the … Read the rest »
Kelly Markham, Texas ChE graduate student and member of the Alper research group, recently won a top poster award prize in the Student/ Young Investigator Poster Award Competition at the Metabolic Engineering 11 Conference in Kobe, Japan.
Markham’s poster, “Expanding the Substrate Range and Product Portfolio of Y. lipolytica through Metabolic Pathway Engineering and Synthetic … Read the rest »
Texas ChE graduate student Jovan Kamcev has been awarded one of three NAMS Student Fellowship Awards, the highest student award offered by the North American Membrane Society.
Kamcev, a member of the Freeman and Paul research group, received this recognition at the NAMS Annual Meeting held in Bellevue, Washington, May, 24.
“I am truly … Read the rest »
Professor Donald R. Paul, the Ernest Cockrell Sr. Chair in Engineering, has been named one of the first Fellows of the North American Membrane Society (NAMS).
NAMS is the only professional society in North America that promotes all aspects of membrane science and technology. The organization inducted its inaugural class of Fellows at the … Read the rest »
Melinda Heidenreich has accepted our offer to become the next executive assistant of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. Her first day in this role will be Monday, July 11th.
Current Texas ChE executive assistant, Karen Eikner, will retire in August after 21 years of dedication to the university.
Heidenreich has more than … Read the rest »
Administrative associate Jonathan Peck has been awarded the latest ChE Staff Spotlight Award.
Since joining the department in January 2012, Peck’s primary responsibility it to handle the day-to-day operations of the National Science Foundation sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for Next Generation Photovoltaics, led by Texas ChE professor Brian Korgel.
“It’s an … Read the rest »
The department is pleased to announce top presenters for this year’s Graduate Student Seminar Series, as voted by attending first-year and third-year Ph.D. students:
Top Presenter
Emily Adkins (Korgel Group)
Direct observation of germanium sodiation by in-situ TEM
Emily’s research advances knowledge of sodium as an alternative to lithium in batteries through the … Read the rest »