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Jonathan Sessler to receive the 2014 MSMLG Award

Jonathan Sessler, will receive the 2014 MSMLG Award at the 4th International Conference on Molecular Sensors and Molecular Logic Gates (MSMLG2014), to be held in Shanghai, China, from 9-12th November. Professor Sessler is the Associate Editor for ChemComm, a Royal Society of Chemistry journal. For more information on the conference a...

UT Austin Chemistry Ranked #15 in World

The University of Texas at Austin is the 15th best university for Chemistry, according the the Best Global University rankings published by U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday.   The rankings focus on the institutions overall research. The methodology weighs factors that measure a university's global and regional reputation; academic r...

Chelikowsky awarded $1.2 million NSF grant to lead computational search for new magnetic materials

Source: https://www.ices.utexas.edu/about/news/332/ Magnets are essential to modern technology. They serve to drive electric motors, encode data on computer hard drives, and enable MRI machines to image the insides of bodies.   But the powerful, permanent magnetics in most high-tech products are not the same magnets stuck on your fridge....

Guangbin Dong Receives 2014 Amgen Young Investigators’ Award

Dr. Guangbin Dong is a 2014 recipient of the Amgen Young Investigators’ Award. The award recognizes scientific contributions in drug discovery and commitment to academic excellence from young investigators. In addition to an unrestricted cash award of $25,000, Dr. Dong and the other recipients will be honored at the annual Young Investigators’ Symp...
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UT Austin Chemistry Ranks 24th Among World’s Universities

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas of Austin is the 39th best university in the world and 28th best in the U.S., according to the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) compiled by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.   The rankings, released Aug. 15, are the third this year to recogni...