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Chelikowsky and Ganesan Win Grand Challenge Awards

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Chelikowsky and Ganesan Win Grand Challenge Awards

Chemical engineering Professors Jim Chelikowsky and Venkat Ganesan have each received a Moncrief Grand Challenge Award to support their research addressing some of society’s biggest challenges in computational engineering and science.

The awards, funded by the private donations of oilman and philanthropist W. A. “Tex” Moncrief of Fort Worth and an anonymous donor, fund research … Read the rest »

Freeman to Receive Society of Plastics Engineers’ Lifetime Achievement Award

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Freeman to Receive Society of Plastics Engineers’ Lifetime Achievement Award

Benny Freeman, the Richard B. Curran Centennial Chair in Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, will receive the Society of Plastics Engineers’ (SPE) International Award, its top honor, recognizing lifetime achievement in the plastics industry.

The award will be presented April 21 during SPE’s annual technical conference Antec 2013 in Cincinnati, … Read the rest »