Texas ChE graduate student Jovan Kamcev has been awarded one of three NAMS Student Fellowship Awards, the highest student award offered by the North American Membrane Society.
Kamcev, a member of the Freeman and Paul research group, received this recognition at the NAMS Annual Meeting held in Bellevue, Washington, May, 24.
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Professor Donald R. Paul, the Ernest Cockrell Sr. Chair in Engineering, has been named one of the first Fellows of the North American Membrane Society (NAMS).
NAMS is the only professional society in North America that promotes all aspects of membrane science and technology. The organization inducted its inaugural class of Fellows at the … Read the rest »
Melinda Heidenreich has accepted our offer to become the next executive assistant of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. Her first day in this role will be Monday, July 11th.
Current Texas ChE executive assistant, Karen Eikner, will retire in August after 21 years of dedication to the university.
Heidenreich has more than … Read the rest »
Congratulations to the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering Class of 2016! 103 undergraduate and graduate students walked across the stage earning their diplomas on May 20. After a college career full of successes and accomplishments, these graduates are headed all over the world to put their degrees to the test. Here are the college experiences … Read the rest »
Texas ChE graduate student Shuqi Zhang has worked with a team of researchers led by biomedical engineering Assistant Professor Jenny Jiang to develop a novel technique that can measure the effectiveness of T-cells, a type of immune cell programmed to fight or kill a threat. The technique could benefit immunotherapy and vaccine development, resulting in … Read the rest »
A team of researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, including McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering professor Jennifer Maynard, have been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, a program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to pursue research aimed at improving … Read the rest »
Previously published on News at Princeton. Written by Steven Schultz, director of the Office of Engineering Communications at Princeton University.
Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, former Texas ChE faculty member and newly selected EAC member, has been appointed director of the Andlinger Center of Energy and the Environment, effective July 1. Loo ends her term … Read the rest »
Jeremy Binagia has been awarded the Rase Brothers’ Award by the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. The award recognizes the graduating senior with the highest GPA who started as a freshman and finished the program in four academic years.
Binagia is an undergraduate researcher in the Bonnecaze Group studying the selective reduction of thin films … Read the rest »
The department is pleased to announce winners of the spring 2016 Undergraduate Research Poster Competition. 65 undergraduates presented research posters at the competition on May 4. Judges selected six posters to compete in the final round. Winners Bobi Simonsen and Eric Wei will present their posters at the AIChE Annual Meeting this fall in San … Read the rest »
Alumna Van Truskett (B.S. ’96) has been selected as a 2016 Distinguished Engineering Graduate for the Cockrell School of Engineering. Truskett is one of five alumni to be honored for his or her presentation to the world as a consummate professional and dedicated engineer.
Truskett is a highly accomplished inventor and leads jetting technology … Read the rest »