Eight students from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering have been named 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows. The Cockrell School of Engineering has a total of 11 NSF Graduate Research Fellows this year, more than any other college within the university.
NSF chose 2,000 individuals from nearly 17,000 applicants as this … Read the rest »
Delia Milliron, associate professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, joins three other trailblazing faculty members from the Cockrell School of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin who have been awarded 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships.
The prestigious fellowships are awarded every year by the Alfred … Read the rest »
Alumna Shannon Cohn, M.D. will be recognized as a Distinguished Graduate of Longview High School in Longview, Texas, May 13.
Valedictorian of the Longview High School Class of 2001, Cohn received her bachelors degree in chemical engineering from Texas ChE in 2005 and then continued her education at the Baylor College of Medicine, graduating in … Read the rest »
The program that better prepares high school students for college engineering programs now reaches 105 schools and 5,000 students in 15 states.
In honor of our centennial, Professor Don Paul shares memories of his dear friend and former colleague Howard Rase whom we lost in May 2014.
The Electrochemical Society sat down with Professor Emeritus Adam Heller as part of the ECS Masters video series, highlighting interviews with key figures in electrochemistry, solid state science and technology fields. The interview was filmed during the 228th ECS Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, as part of ECS’ recognition of Heller as the 78th Honorary Member … Read the rest »
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that alumnus Jim Rawlings (B.S. ’79) has been elected to the prestigious academy.
Rawlings joins 80 new members and 22 new foreign members elected to the NAE in 2016. Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions bestowed upon an engineer.
Rawlings is a chemical … Read the rest »
Texas ChE undergrads compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop Design Weekend to create new method of high-speed, sustainable mass transit.
Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug product Zepatier for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes 1 and 4 infections in adult patients. Texas ChE Ph.D. student Angela Wagner of Professor Nicholas Peppas’ research group was one of the team of eight researchers to co-invent and patent Zepatier.
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Drs. Lydia Contreras and Bruce Eldridge were announced as the winners of the 2015 TEAChE Awards during the 2015 Fall Graduation Lucheon. Both professors were selected through votes made by students who have graduated within the past two years.
The award, given every other year, was established in honor of three outstanding professors emeriti: Dr. … Read the rest »