Congratulations to Professor Kallie Willets who has been
awarded the Natural Sciences Foundation Advisory Council Teaching
Excellence Award. This is a student-nominated and student-selected
award. Dr. Willets has been invited to attend the College of Natural Sciences
Honors and Awards Banquet on April 24th at the San Jacinto Residence Hall.
Congratulations to the following 2008 Spring Symposium Poster Session Winners:
Undergraduates
1st Place- WENLY RUAN
2nd Place- CHAD WEBB
3rd Place- VINAY MIKKILINENI
Graduate Students & Postdocs
1st Place- MICHAEL O'KEEFE
2nd Place- JEFF STRAHAN
3rd Place- JOAQUIN RODRÍGUEZ-LÓPEZ
Great job to all those who presented posters, and thank ...
Chemistry professor Jonathan Sessler is one of many faculty members from a range of disciplines at The University of Texas at Austin who have been able to adapt their ongoing research to investigate ways of dealing with IEDs. Sessler is working on ways to detect molecules of explosives used in IEDs and similar weapons. The result could be to make d...
Professor Christopher Bielawski has been selected to receive the 2008 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. This highly competitive and presitgious award seeks to recognize young scientists and engineers who show exceptional promise for outstanding careers in research and teaching. He will receive support for three years to develop nov...
A paper published in the ACS journal Biochemistry by Kenneth A. Johnson and his student, Yu-Chih Tsai, has been recognized by the American Chemical Society as a Most-Cited Article for the year 2006. In the paper, “A new paradigm for DNA-polymerase specificity” (Tsai, Y.-C., and K. A. Johnson (2006) Biochemistry 45, 9675-9687), Tsai and Johnson show...
Congratulations to Chris Bielawski and Lara Mahal for receiving the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship! This extremely competitive and prestigious award is given to top young scientists at colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada. It is a 2-year fellowship that provides flexible funds to support each professor's current an...
Congratulations to Dr. Bielawski for being awarded a 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant form 3M's Research and Development sector, in partnership with the Corporate Giving Program. The award recognizes outstanding new faculty for the quality and pertinence of their research, the subject of which is of interest to 3M. With the unrestricted funds offered by...
Women in Chemistry is proud to present a career exploration event entitled “Your Career in Chemistry: Thinking Outside the Beaker” on Saturday, February 23, 2008, 8:30am-5pm, in Welch Hall. Unlike college-wide career fairs, this event will specifically address the many career options available to you with a bachelors or advanced degree in chemistry...
Professor Michael Krische is the recipient of the first Green Chemistry grant awarded to a member of the University of Texas faculty. This grant was awarded to Professor Krische by The ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable, which is a partnership of member global pharmaceutical companies with the ACS Green Chemistry Institute. The...
Congratulations to Professors Rick Russell and Jason Shear on receiving faculty promotions! Biochemistry Professor Rick Russell has recently been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and awarded tenure, and Physical and Analytical Chemistry Professor Jason Shear has been promoted from Associate Professor to Full Professor
The 22nd biennial Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure is scheduled for May 1st through 4th at the Radisson Hotel in Austin. Details of the event can be found at http://www.ged.chem.ed.ac.uk/austin/. Approximately 100 scientists from around the world will present talks and posters concerning experimental and theoretical methods for studying mole...