Alumnus Sam Crowther has held a number of roles since graduating with his bachelor’s degree from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering in 1957. He has been called a chemical engineer, a consultant, an entrepreneur, a science fair judge, a Sunday school teacher, an author and most recently, the mentor of the year for the … 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 »
NASCENT, a National Science Foundation-funded Nanosystems Engineering Research Center co-directed by chemical engineering professor Roger Bonnecaze, has added Magic Leap, a company working to develop novel human computing interfaces and software for mixed reality and other applications, to the center’s Industrial Partnership Program.
Magic Leap is the latest industrial partner to team up … Read the rest »
Drs. Chris Ellison, C. Grant Willson and a small group of Texas ChE graduate and undergraduate students were recently honored with the 2015 Photopolymer Science and Technology Best Paper Award at the International Conference of Photopolymer Science and Technology in Chiba, Japan, June 24.
Ellison’s research group, including postdoctoral graduate Dustin Janes and undergraduates … Read the rest »
Kyle Klavetter, a chemical engineering graduate student, recently returned from attending the 65th Annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, June 28 to July 3.
Klavetter, a member of Dr. Charles “Buddie” Mullins’ research group, was selected to join 64 Laureates and 651 young scientists representing the disciplines of chemistry, physics and … Read the rest »
The University of Texas at Austin has been ranked No. 30 among the world’s top universities according to the 2015 Center for World University Rankings.
The rankings list the top 1,000 universities in the world based on: quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, influence, citations, broad impact, and patents.
Among these … Read the rest »
We’re pleased to announce that the Dr. Thomas F. Edgar Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Chemical Engineering has reached and exceeded its $350,000 goal.
The fund, supported by former students, colleagues, and friends and family of Professor Tom Edgar, will recruit and support outstanding chemical engineering graduate students and boost the department’s competitive advantage in attracting … Read the rest »
Postdoctoral researcher Jongwook Kim was recently selected for the 2015 Distinguished Young Scholars’ Seminar Series at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington.
The seminar series, held annually since 2011, invites a distinguished group of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students selected from the large pool of national applicants to visit Seattle to … Read the rest »
Delia Milliron, associate professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded a 2015 Resnick Sustainability Institute Resonate Award for her research utilizing nanomaterials to enhance energy technologies and lower their costs.
Resonate Awards honor breakthrough achievements in energy science and sustainability. The awards celebrate innovators with new ideas or contributions to … Read the rest »
Graduate student Alex Pak has been selected to receive a 2015 Herbert H. Uhlig Summer Fellowship from the Electrochemical Society (ECS). This year, the prestigious annual fellowship was awarded to five recipients from around the world.
Pak is a member of the Computational Nanoengineering Lab under the supervision of Professor Gyeong S. Hwang. … Read the rest »
