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From the Chemistry Department

Zhongxing Huang Receives IPMI Elemetal Graduate Student Award

Congratulations to Zhongxing Huang, of the Dong Group, for receiving the 2015 IPMI Elemetal Graduate Student Award from the International Precious Metals Institute. The award recognizes unique research that advances the science of precious metal chemistry, catalysis, metallurgy, or natural science and increases the probability of industry to use or...
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Graduate students participate in Inclusive Classrooms Leadership Certificate Seminar

In Fall 2014, several Department of Chemistry graduate students attended the Inclusive Classrooms Leadership Certificate Seminar, sponsored by the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement and the Graduate School.   Developed by Dr. Betty Jeanne Taylor, assistant vice president for strategic initiatives, the seminar engages teaching ass...

Safety Madness Featured in C&EN's The Safety Zone

The Department of Chemistry's 2014 Safety Madness competition was featured in The Safety Zone by Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). The tournament, organized in brackets of research groups similar to March Madness, challenged graduate students to showcase their lab's safety guidelines and procedures for cash prizes. The Roberts group took ...

Summer 2015 Research Opportunity

Research Experience for Veteran Undergrad Students is seeking undergraduates for a research opportunity for the upcoming Summer semester at UT Austin. The program is designed for veterans who have served in the armed forces. The student will be mentored by a postdoc or graduate student during the summer semester (typically 2 months) and perfor...

Department of Chemistry Participates in ExxonMobil PALS Safety Workshop

In early January, a group of staff, instructors, and grad students participated in a safety workshop hosted by ExxonMobil in Houston.  The workshop brought together representatives from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Florida, Georgia Tech, and Texas A&M as part of the new Partners in Academic Laboratory Safety program.  Th...