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From the Chemistry Department
Dr. Lara Mahal Receives New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health
Dr. Lara K. Mahal, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is one of 31 researchers nationally to receive a 2008 New Innovator award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She will use the 5-year, $1.5 million grant to decode how sugar molecules on cell surfaces encode information such as cell type and health. This may lead to be...Drs. Barbara and Cowley Receive American Chemical Society Awards
Congratulations to Professors Paul F. Barbara and Alan H. Cowley who have been recognized by awards from the American Chemical Society. Professor Barbara has received the 2009 E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy and Professor Cowley has been awarded the 2009 Distinguished Service Award in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry. Vignettes of the ...New Faculty Position Open for Applicants
The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for tenure-track positions at the assistant professor level. Targeted interdisciplinary research areas include nanoscience, semiconductors, polymers, the interface of chemistry and biology, renewable energy, green chemistry, and environmental chemis...Dr. C. Grant Willson awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Today President George W. Bush announced the recipients of the Nation's highest honor for science and technology, naming the recipients of the 2007 National Medal of Science and the 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The National Medal of Technology and Innovation honors America’s leading innovators. The award is given to individual...
