News and Highlights

Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Sessler and collaborators develop molecule that makes cancer self-destruct

Professor Jonathan Sessler and collaborators at five other institutions have created a molecule that can cause cancer cells to self-destruct by ferrying sodium and chloride ions into the cancer cells.  These synthetic ion transporters, described this week in the journal Nature Chemistry, confirm a two-decades-old hypothesis that could point th...

Friday, 08 August 2014

David Vanden Bout Receives Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award

Professor David Vanden Bout is a 2014 recipient of the Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award. This prestigious award is offered annually in recognition of UT System faculty members who have demonstrated extraordinary classroom performance and innovation in undergraduate instruction. Nominees are evaluated by students, peer faculty and external review...

Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Hung-wen Liu Named ACS Fellow

Professor Hung-wen "Ben" Liu has been named one of the American Chemical Society's 2014 Fellows. The 2014 class of ACS Fellows includes 99 scientists who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in chemistry and made important contributions to ACS, the world’s largest scientific society. They represent a wide range of disciplines and geographi...

Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Allen Bard Awarded Torbern Bergman Medal

Allen Bard, the Norman Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry and director of the Center for Electrochemistry in the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, was awarded the Torbern Bergman Medal by the Analytical Division of the Swedish Chemical Society on June 9 in Stockholm.   He shared the recogniti...

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Guangbin Dong Receives Biomatik Distinguished Junior Faculty Award

Dr. Guangbin Dong is a 2014 recipient of the Chinese-American Chemistry & Chemical Biology Professors Association (CAPA) Biomatik Distinguished Junior Faculty Award.