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From the Chemistry Department
Stellar Student Spotlight: Amanda Oakley
Amanda Oakley is a sophomore in the Department of Chemistry and a member of the Peer Learning Assistant program. I fell in love with chemistry in seventh grade when my science teacher lit metal salts on fire to show us the different colors. From there my interest grew in high school, especially after I finished AP chemistry and I realized h...Two Chemistry Students Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships
The National Science Foundation has announced that they will be awarding 28 prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships to University of Texas at Austin students, including two from the Department of Chemistry - graduate student James Daniel Sanders and undergraduate Danny Quang Thach. The annual fellowship ho...Roberts Research Published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
A new article from the Roberts group has just appeared in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. In their paper, members of the Roberts lab describe a new spectrometer that they have developed for measuring spectra produced by electronic sum frequency generation (ESFG). ESFG is a nonlinear process that preferentially occurs at surfaces and int...Que Research Published in JACS
Emily Que's research group recently published a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. "Exploiting Copper Redox for 19F Magnetic Resonance-Based Detection of Cellular Hypoxia" This paper describes a new MRI contrast agent platform that utilizes a Cu(II)/Cu(I) redox switch to selectively detect hypoxic environments in cel...News
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Celebrating the 2024 College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Honored Graduates
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Two UT Scientists Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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New Advanced Quantum Science Institute Will Bridge Basic Research and Applied Science
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Cancer Prevention, Screening and Research Programs Expanding With CPRIT Support
