Professors Tom Truskett, Keith Johnston and Jennifer Maynard have been awarded a 5-year $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to continue research to develop high-dosage, injectable protein-based therapeutics for at-home treatment of diseases ranging from arthritis to cancer.
The team’s discovery of a new highly concentrated form of proteins – clusters of individual protein molecules … Read the rest »
The University of Texas at Austin has been selected to receive an $18.5 million grant over the next five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create and lead a nanosystems engineering research center.
The Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies (NASCENT) will develop innovative nanomanufacturing, nanosculpting and nanometrology systems that … Read the rest »
New Assistant Professor Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz is an expert in atmospheric nanoparticles. Her work will improve air quality and human health, and influence environmental policies. Find out more about our newest faculty member
Roger Bonnecaze, department chair, T. Brockett Hudson Professor and the Bill L. Stanley Leadership Chair, has been selected to hold a 2012-1013 Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, an honor that recognizes outstanding work with undergraduate students.
Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowships were established by The University of Texas System Board of Regents in 1983 … Read the rest »
Graduate student Amanda Lanza recently won Top Overall Poster in the Student/ Young Investigator Poster Award Competition sponsored by the journal Metabolic Engineering at the Metabolic Engineering IX Conference in Biarritz, France.
Lanza’s poster, A quantitative, graded dominant mutant approach for probing protein function and gene regulation, won the honor out of 213 submissions and … Read the rest »
John Ekerdt, Associate Dean of Research in Engineering and Dick Rothwell Endowed Chair, has been awarded the 2012 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Lectureship Award, sponsored by Chemstations, Inc.
“I was fortunate to study under Professor Ekerdt as both an undergraduate and graduate student,” said Clayton Wheeler, a former student of Ekerdt’s … Read the rest »
Arumugam Manthiram, director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Joe C. Walter Chair in Engineering, was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award by The University of Texas at Austin’s Graduate School.
The award is given to only one faculty member at the university and is part of a series of professional awards granted annually … Read the rest »
Graduate student Amanda Lanza recently accepted the 2012 Jeff Byers Memorial Graduate Award in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
Lanza was nominated by her advisor, Professor Hal Alper. A committee from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Chemical Engineering reviewed nominations and selected Lanza as this year’s top candidate to … Read the rest »
ChE Systems Administrator Patrick Danielewski received his third recent staff excellence award by accepting the 2012 University of Texas at Austin Outstanding Staff Award May 4 in the Lyndon B. Johnson Auditorium.
Danielewski and 29 other selected staff members from across campus were given a $1,500 prize and certificate presented by University President Bill Powers. … Read the rest »
Graduate student Yong-Mao Lin has received one of the most prestigious fellowships given by The University of Texas at Austin: The William C. Powers Graduate Fellowship.
Students awarded these fellowships are considered to be among the most academically competitive scholars on campus. It includes a financial package totaling $36,000 over a twelve-month period to support … Read the rest »