The recently released 2014 Best Grad School Rankings from US News & World Report listed our own Analytical Chemistry Division at #4. Congratulations to the faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.
The Spring 2014 Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee (GSSPC) from UT Austin was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R13 grant for their upcoming symposium at the 247th ACS National Meeting. The NIH R13 grant supports high quality scientific conferences that are relevant to the public health and to the scientific missions of the p...
On March 11th, U.S. News and World Report released their 2015 Best Graduate Schools rankings; the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin is ranked 12th nationwide for chemistry graduate programs. The annual ranking of doctoral programs in the sciences is based solely on the results of surveys sent to academics in chemistry. W...
The Alcalde has released "The Texas 10" for 2014, which includes Senior Vice Provost for Enrollment and Graduation Management Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor David Laude. The Texas 10 are the professors that alumni nominated as the most talented & inspiring UT professors ever. Congratulations, Dr. Laude!
The Sloan Foundation has selected Dr. Guangbin Dong as a 2014 Research Fellow. Dr. Dong is one of 126 early-career scholars selected by the Foundation in recognition of distinguished performance and unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field. The recipients of the fellowship receive $50,000 for a two-year period. Sin...
President Obama has named Dr. Allen J. Bard and Dr. Andrew Sessler, of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as recipients of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the government's oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement. The Presidential award carries an honorarium of $50,000, shared equally, and a medal. The award is adm...
Congratulations to Professor Richard Crooks on receiving the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award. The award recognizes significant contributions to the field of analytical chemistry including introduction of a significant technique, theory or instrument and providing exceptional training or a fertile environment for progress in analytical chemist...
Dr. Simon Humphrey was featured on an American Chemical Society Inorganic Chemistry virtual issue. The podcast was devoted to recent developments in synthetic inorganic chemistry by 17 young investigators whose research is leading the field in new and exciting directions and whose work has appeared in Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of the American Ch...
Dr. Ron Elber was one of three UT faculty members elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS fellows are chosen annually by their peers to recognize their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Dr. Elber was recognized for his groundbreaking work on th...
Dr. Cynthia LaBrake has been selected as a President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award winner. This $5,000 award recognizes excellence in undergraduate education in the core curriculum. Congratulations, Dr. LaBrake!
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has funded Professor Michael Rose to develop and expand an outreach program called "H2 from H2O: A Water-Splitting Outreach Kit for High School Chemistry Students." The program is designed to bring hands-on laboratory experience to local and regional high school chemistry classrooms, and to raise awareness a...
On October 9th, 2013, professors in the Department of Chemistry at UT Austin participated in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology. Dr. Grant Willson was the keynote speaker for the event, Dr. Brad Holliday was the lead judge, and Dr. Michael Rose participated in the judges' panel. The Siemens Competition is the nation’...
A group of UT Chemistry and Freshmen Research Initiative (FRI) undergraduate students gave research presentations at the Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium held at Rice University on October 25-26. The symposium provides students an opportunity to interact with distinguished faculty and win prizes for outstanding presentations. ...
Congratulations to Professor Jonathan Sessler for receiving the 2013 American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Award. The award recognizes a person who, during a period of residence in the Southwest Region of the ACS, has made meritorious contributions to the advancement of chemistry, chemical engineering, chemical education, either pure or appl...
Congratulations to Dr. David Vanden Bout on being named a 2013 Provost's Teaching Fellow. The Provost’s Teaching Fellows program is designed to strengthen faculty participation and governance in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), enhance faculty collaboration across disciplinary and institutional boundaries, and support specific faculty-le...
Congratulations to Christopher Bates, a graduate student in the Willson Group, on receiving the DSM Science and Technology Award, Americas 2013. The DSM Science and Technology Awards are part of the DSM Bright Science Awards program. They seek to recognize and reward outstanding young researchers for innovative research with clear application poten...
Researchers at UT Austin are using 3-D printing to build microscopic cages that contain bacteria and to study how this bacteria interacts and develops infections in humans.
The scientists, including Department of Chemistry professor Jason Shear, utilize 3-D printing technology to construct protein homes for bacteria in gelatin. Thi...
Congratulations to graduate students Josephine Cunningham and Nicholas Brenes, of the Crooks Group, on receiving fellowships through the NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Graduate Fellowship Program, a program funded by NASA's Office of Education Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP). The graduate fellowship seeks to support th...
Professor Ben Liu has been named as the 2014 recipient of the Arthur C. Cope Late Career Scholars Award sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund. Ben will be presented with the award at the Society’s 247th ACS National Meeting in Dallas, TX next March. Additional information on the award can be found here.