Kate Baird, graduate program coordinator, received the 2015 Ruth Crawford Staff Excellence Award at the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering Annual Holiday Banquet, Dec. 21.
The annual award recognizes excellent staff contributions and is named after former senior staff member Ruth Crawford who devoted 30 years of exemplary service to the department working for … Read the rest »
Associate Professor Hal Alper has been named the recipient of the 2016 Young Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Division of Biochemical Technology.
The prestigious annual award, which is sponsored by Genentech, Inc., recognizes one outstanding contributor, under 40 years of age, to the field of biochemical technology. Alper is being … Read the rest »
Texas ChE professor George Georgiou, the Laura Jennings Turner Chair in Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Election to NAI fellow status is a “professional distinction given to renowned academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made … Read the rest »
The department is pleased to announce winners of the fall 2015 Undergraduate Research Poster Competition:
Nayan Mukherjee (Johnston Group)
Surfactants for Enhanced Oil Recovery
$100 prize
Nayan’s research focuses on studying the interfacial chemistry of surfactants used to generate foams for Enhanced Oil Recovery. The goals are to increase the volume … Read the rest »
The Academy of Medicine, Engineering & Science of Texas (TAMEST) has named alumna Van Truskett (B.S. ‘96) as a 2016 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award recipient.
The Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards recognize rising Texas researchers who are addressing the essential role that science and technology play in society, and whose work meets … Read the rest »
Alumnus Haiqing Lin, Ph.D. ’05, was recently announced as the recipient of the 2015 Early Career Researcher of the Year Award from the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
Lin, a former student in Dr. Benny Freeman‘s group, has been an assistant professor in the UB Department of Chemical … Read the rest »
Jennifer Maynard, associate professor and Laurence E. McMakin Jr. Centennial Fellow, has been awarded the prestigious title of Emerging Inventor of the Year by The University of Texas at Austin’s Office of Technology and Commercialization (OTC).
The Emerging Inventor of the Year award is a new award category within OTC’s 2015 Inventor of the … Read the rest »
Jeff Ting, Texas ChE alumnus (B.S. ’11) and current University of Minnesota chemical engineering graduate student advised by Drs. Frank Bates and Theresa Reineke, is the recipient of the first annual American Institute of Chemical Engineers Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing (PD2M) Student Award, sponsored by Pfizer. Ting was awarded a commemorative plaque and … Read the rest »
This year’s international Science Award Electrochemistry from BASF, a centennial title corporate partner of Texas ChE, and Volkswagen was awarded to alumnus Dr. Bryan McCloskey (Ph.D. ’09).
The jury of representatives from BASF, Volkswagen and from academia selected McCloskey for his outstanding research results in the area of lithium-oxygen batteries. He has analyzed the … Read the rest »
Students from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering recently won the top three spots in the Procter & Gamble Poster Competition hosted by The University of Texas at Austin.
Jessica Hung (Johnston Group) placed first and received a $1,000 cash prize for her poster, “Formation of Stable Low-Viscosity, High Concentration Protein Dispersions with Molecular … Read the rest »
