Graduating Senior, Yuxuan Wang, won the $20,000 grand prize Mitchell Award last night at the Four Seasons Hotel. Wang is a Biochemistry (Honors) and Plan II major. She won the award for her undergraduate research project with Professor Andy Ellington titled, “Aptamer Antagonists of Myelin Promote Axon Growth.”
The George H. Mitchell Awards for Aca...
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Professor and Department Chairman Richard Crooks is the 2010 recipient of the Charles N. Reilley Award in Electroanalytical Chemistry. The C. N. Reilley Award is given in memory of one of the most distigushed analytical chemists of the 20th century. Reilley's interests were bo...
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Professor Lauren Webb is being honored with a College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. Natural Sciences Dean Mary Ann Rankin established this award to increase recognition of the College's many exceptional faculty who are committed to teaching at either the under...
Professor Eric Anslyn has developed a new technique for rapidly identifying and optimizing chiral catalysts, like those used in pharmaceuticals and pesticides.
Professor Anslyn's technique will allow for rapid identification of catalysts to carry out syntheses of chemicals of a certain enantiometric form, or "handedness". While the synthesis of th...
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Professor Allen Bard has received the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Distinguished Scientist Award. These awards are presented to individuals who have worked to support the SURA mission "to foster excellence in scientific research, to strengthen the scie...
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Professor Jason Shear has been nominated to serve on the Grants Advisory Council (GAC) for the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. The Beckman Foundation is a major contributor to scientific research, and makes grants to non-profit research institutions to promote research in...
You may think that walking to Welch Hall from satellite parking—perhaps toting a laptop, lunch, books, and paperwork—along with routine sessions on the stair master at Gregory, and even running several miles each day, is a workout. Think again. I met with Steven Moore, the UT Chemistry and Biochemistry Department’s Project Manager for Facilities an...
A new “next-gen” genomic analysis system , SOLiD™, will allow UT researchers to quickly catalog large genomes and greatly increase the focus and pace of their research. The new technology is sponsored by the Texas Institute for Drug and Diagnostic Development, directed by chemistry professor Brent Iverson. This technology will be used by several ge...
Chris Bielawski has been selected as a Young Observer to the 2009 IUPAC General Assembly and Congress in Glasgow, Scotland. This fellowship enables awardees to attend and participate in the IUPAC general assembly meeting in Scotland in summer 2009
Established in 1977, the program allows participants to experience the
global efforts that impact the...
The newest science building now being built on The University of Texas at Austin campus will be named in honor and memory of Dr. Norman Hackerman, chemist, professor and president emeritus.
The Norman Hackerman Building will house state-of-the-art classrooms, teaching labs and research labs for organic chemistry, providing them with much-needed sp...
Lorene Rogers, a former University of Texas president and the first woman to lead a major research university in the United States passed away Sunday at an assisted-living center in Dallas. She was 94 years old.
Ms. Rogers earned master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Texas in biochemistry and then joined the faculty of the Departmen...
Peter Rossky, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the first recipient of the American Chemical Society Physical Division Award in Theoretical Chemistry for his outstanding contributions to physical chemistry. Rossky will be invited to present a plenary lecture at the Telluride School on Theoretical Chemistry during the s...
Congratulations to Professors Chris Bielawski and Lara Mahal on
their promotion to associate professor with tenure. Congratulations
also go to Cynthia LaBrake and Fatima Fakhreddine on their
advancement to the rank of senior lecturer.
Construction will begin this summer on substantial improvements to the Welch courtyard. In an effort to make the courtyard a comfortable and engaging study and gathering space for our students, electrical plugs will be installed to complement the existing wireless internet access, and misters, fans and shade coverings will be added to control tempe...
The ESB, located directly across 24th street from Welch Hall, was demolished this past year to make way for the new, larger "ESB II". The new building will have 154,000 square feet of assignable space and house the Institute for Neuroscience, the Center for Learning and Memory, and all organic chemistry teaching and research labs. The ESB II is sch...
The Rowland Pettit Endowed Centennial Professorship in Chemistry was established in 1983 in honor of Rowland Pettit, a former University of Texas professor of chemistry. Since its creation, this Professorship has been held by Mary Ann Fox and Stephen F. Martin, and is currently held by Professor Jonathan Sessler. This Professorship was recently ele...
Professor Michael Krische has been awarded the 2008 Humboldt Research
Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to co...
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is pleased to welcome Dr. Xiaoyang Zhu, who will be joining the faculty this spring. Dr. Zhu received a BS from Fudan University in 1984 and a PhD from The University of Texas in 1989. He is a 2006 recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, and a 1996 recipient of the Cottrell Scholar Award.
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"Lately, there’s been a lot of excitement about nanotechnology,” Graeme Henkelman, professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, said, with characteristic earnestness. “People have realized that as you make things small, particularly on the nanoscale, there are some properties that come out that are completely different than the bulk...
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry congratulates the 21 Chemistry and Biochemistry majors who were recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa at its spring meeting. Upon joining, they will be inducted into the national honor society at The University of Texas at Austin chapter's fall reception on Sunday, December 7th in the Texas Union Ballroom, ...