Posts Tagged ‘awards’

Nicholas Peppas Receives Honorary Doctorate from University of Patras

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Nicholas Peppas Receives Honorary Doctorate from University of Patras

Nicholas A. Peppas, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy at UT Austin, has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Patras in Patras, Greece.

He was awarded the doctorate from the university’s Chemical Engineering Department, the top chemical engineering department in … Read the rest »

Sai Gourisankar Wins Cockrell School’s Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award

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Sai Gourisankar Wins Cockrell School’s Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award

Graduating senior Sai Gourisankar was recently selected for the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Outstanding Scholar-Leader Award.

The semesterly award is presented during the Cockrell School’s commencement ceremony to stellar students who have maintained at least a 3.8 GPA in-residence and completed at least 60 credit hours at The University of Texas at Austin.

Sai, a … Read the rest »

Hanbi Liu Receives Rase Brothers Award

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Hanbi Liu Receives Rase Brothers Award

Hanbi Liu has been awarded the Rase Brothers Award by the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering.

The award recognizes the graduating senior with the highest GPA who started as a freshman and finished the program in four academic years.

Hanbi performed research in the lab of Professor Gary Rochelle studying the relationship between amine structure … Read the rest »

ChE Students Win BASF Team Chemistry Challenge

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ChE Students Win BASF Team Chemistry Challenge

Chemical engineering students dominated the top two winning teams of the recent BASF Team Chemistry Challenge—a student competition to develop solutions to make UT sports events more sustainable.

The annual event is hosted by BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, and Texas Athletics and awards a total of $25,000 to the top three … Read the rest »

Undergraduate Miguel Martinez Wins New Faces of Engineering Award

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Undergraduate Miguel Martinez Wins New Faces of Engineering Award

Undergraduate Miguel Martinez was recently awarded the 2015 New Faces of Engineering Award by DiscoverE, the national engineering volunteer organization that hosts Engineering Week.

Miguel is a member of the department’s American Institute of Chemical Engineer’s (AIChE) student chapter and serves as the organization’s biological engineering representative.  He also assists in organizing AIChE tailgates, Read the rest »

Delia Milliron Selected for U.S. Defense Science Study Group

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Delia Milliron Selected for U.S. Defense Science Study Group

Delia Milliron, associate professor and Fellow of the Henry Beckman Professorship, has been selected for the United States’ Defense Science Study Group (DSSG).

The two-year program introduces outstanding scientists and engineers to the challenges facing national security and encourages them to apply their expertise to address these issues. Milliron is one of 17 U.S. … Read the rest »

Keith Johnston Honored by Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

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Keith Johnston Honored by Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

Keith Johnston has been awarded the 2015 Darsh Wasan Award from the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science for his outstanding contributions to the field.

Johnston’s expertise in colloid and interfacial science has lead to advances in nanotechnology for imaging and recovery of subsurface oil and gas, electrochemical energy storage, drug delivery and imaging of … Read the rest »

Nicholas Peppas Named A Highly Cited Researcher

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Nicholas Peppas Named A Highly Cited Researcher

Nicholas Peppas, the Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering, has been included in the 2014 Thomas Reuters’ list of Highly Cited Researchers.

This list recognizes many of the world’s leading scientific minds and is comprised of more than 3,200 researchers in 21 fields of the sciences and social sciences. Peppas was one of seven … Read the rest »

Grad Student Krystian Perez Wins Energy Research Fellowship

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Grad Student Krystian Perez Wins Energy Research Fellowship

Graduate Student Krystian Perez (Edgar Group) won first place in the Pike Powers Energy Research Fellowship Awards at the International WikiEnergy Data Conference hosted by Pecan Street Inc. at UT Austin June 3-4, 2014.

“We put our groundbreaking energy research dataset in the hands of the world’s best researchers, and they truly delivered,” said Pecan … Read the rest »

Adam Heller Awarded Torbern Bergman Medal in Analytical Chemistry

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Adam Heller Awarded Torbern Bergman Medal in Analytical Chemistry The award honors Heller’s work on ground-breaking diabetes management products that have improved the quality of life of millions.