The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering extends a Texas-size thank you to everyone for celebrating our centennial!
Included is a video of the centennial gala finale where Texas ChE students and the Longhorn Band announced the grand total raised for the Challenge for McKetta Campaign: $27,849,878. This exceeds the campaign’s $25 million goal to ensure … Read the rest »
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, including Texas ChE’s Dr. George Georgiou and Dr. Jennifer Maynard, successfully culminated years of work when a drug they engineered for the treatment and prevention of inhalational anthrax — the anthrax antitoxin obiltoxaximab — received approval March 21 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Part … Read the rest »
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 »
Senior IT manager Randy Rife has been awarded the latest ChE Staff Spotlight Award.
Since joining the staff in 2000, Rife’s contributions to our program and the university have been tremendous. Nominators described him as accessible, accurate and persistent when addressing the computing and IT needs that are critical to our department.
“It is clear … Read the rest »
A memorial service will be held 3:30 PM on March 19, 2016 at St. Matthews Episcopal Church located at 8134 Mesa Drive in Austin, TX. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, charitable contributions be made to The Lakes Area Music Festival in Brainerd, Minnesota.
Cyril Durrenberger, senior lecturer in the McKetta Department of … Read the rest »
Written by Maureen Balleza and originally published on The University of Texas at Austin Office of the Vice President for Research website.
The University of Texas formed the department of chemical engineering in 1915 and in 2012, it was named in honor of John J. McKetta, Jr. He was an international authority on thermodynamic properties … Read the rest »
Four Texas ChE graduate students placed among the top two in their respective categories at the 2016 UT Energy Week Student Research Contest, held Feb. 18 in the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center at the UT Austin campus.
The research contest, hosted by the Longhorn Energy Club, was divided into four competition categories: environmental and … Read the rest »
The Welch Foundation announces that Dr. Christopher J. Ellison is the 2016 recipient of the Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research.
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 »
