Seven graduate students and three undergraduates have received a prestigious NSF Fellowship to conduct world-changing research.
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Ten Texas ChE Students Awarded NSF Fellowships
Seven Students from Texas ChE Accept NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Seven students from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering – four undergraduates and three grad students — have accepted the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
This fellowship is the oldest and one of the most prestigious and competitive programs of its kind. NSF recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in science, technology, … Read the rest »
Eight Texas ChE students named NSF Fellows
Eight students from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering have been named 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows, more than any other chemical engineering program in that nation this year. The Cockrell School of Engineering has a total of 15 NSF Graduate Research Fellows this year, more than any other college within … Read the rest »
Top 10 Highlights of 2017
As 2017 winds down, we celebrate some of this year's top highlights.
Korgel, Milliron Lead Research and Education Efforts of $15.6M Center for Materials Research
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin have received a $15.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to discover and advance new types of materials for use in many applications including energy storage, medical devices and information processing. … Read the rest »
Department to Co-Lead $20M NSF Center To Convert Natural Gas Into Transportation Fuels
Engineers in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to help lead a five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation engineering research center aimed at developing new mobile technologies for converting natural gas into transportation fuels near rural natural gas sites.
The ability to convert natural gas … Read the rest »
Six Named NSF Graduate Research Fellows
Six students from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering have been named 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows. The Cockrell School of Engineering has a total of 21 NSF Graduate Research Fellows this year, more than any other college within the university.
NSF chose 2,000 individuals from over 13,000 applicants as this … Read the rest »
Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz Honored by National Science Foundation with Early CAREER Award
More than three million people die prematurely every year by breathing air pollution in the form of ozone and outdoor particulate matter. Texas ChE Assistant Professor Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz and her research team want to improve this statistic through understanding how pollutants form in our atmosphere, in order to devise a way to reduce pollutant … Read the rest »
NSF Grant Expands Next Generation Photovoltaics Center in Partnership with Texas A&M
It does not require a force as powerful as the sun to get The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University to work together, but it certainly helps. UT Austin’s Next Generation Photovoltaics Center will add a new solar research site at Texas A&M University thanks to a new grant from the National … Read the rest »
Jonathan Peck Wins ChE Staff Spotlight Award
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 »