News and Highlights

Thursday, 01 July 2010

Family Creates Endowed Scholarship to Honor Cecil Harrison Hale

Approximately $25,000 in gifts and pledges will create the Cecil Harrion Hale Endowed Scholarship. Family members Mrs. Connie H. Wise, Mr. Bryan M. Hale, and Mr. Chris A. Hale have made key pledges to make the scholarship possible. Cecil Harrison Hale Cecil Harrison Hale died August 31 in Austin. He was born on a farm June 12, 1919, at Crossroa...

Thursday, 17 June 2010

The Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Sweeps the Regents Teaching Awards

The Board of Regents of the UT System has selected four Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty to receive the 2010 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award. This is an unusual accomplishment for a single department considering that only 38 awards are given systemwide. It demonstrates the quality of teaching students' receive from our facu...

Thursday, 17 June 2010

Highly Efficient Solar Cells Could Result from Quantum Dot Research

Conventional solar cell efficiency could be increased from the current limit of 30 percent to more than 60 percent, suggests new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin. Zhu and his colleagues report their results in this week’s Science. The scientists have discover...

Friday, 28 May 2010

Dr. Jeffrey E. Barrick Joins Faculty

Dr. Jeffrey E. Barrick will be joining the faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in January of 2011. Barrick grew up in Lubbock, Texas and is excited to be returning to the state. Among other things, he fondly remembers the sunny days and many weekends spent in small towns in West Texas at University Interscholastic League (UI...

Thursday, 27 May 2010

Three Students Receive Graduate School Continuing Fellowships

Three Students Receive Graduate School Continuing Fellowships The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is proud to announce that three of our graduate students have received 2010-2011 Continuing Fellowships. The students are Stephanie Taylor, Biochemistry (Christian P. Whitman group); Christopher Grant, Chemistry (Michael Krische group); and D...