News and Highlights

Friday, 02 May 2008

Dr. Lauren Webb Joins the Department

Dr. Lauren Webb received her A.B in Chemistry (Music minor) from Bowdoin College in 2000. She entered graduate school at the California Institute of Technology as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2005. She did her graduate work in the laboratory of Prof. Nathan Lewis, where she studied chemical and electronic p...

Thursday, 24 April 2008

Dr. Larry Faulkner

The American Chemical Society Student Affiliate at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to host Dr. Larry Faulkner Thursday, April 24 5 pm Welch Hall 2.122 All are welcome, light refreshments will be served. "Lessons from a Not-Quite-Exact Science" With some humor and autobiography, Dr. Larry Faulkner will discuss the ways in which exp...

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Professor John McDevitt's New Nano-Bio-Chip Can Help Diagnose Heart Attacks

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Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Professor Kallie Willets Receives NSF Advisory Council Award!

Congratulations to Professor Kallie Willets who has been awarded the Natural Sciences Foundation Advisory Council Teaching Excellence Award. This is a student-nominated and student-selected award. Dr. Willets has been invited to attend the College of Natural Sciences Honors and Awards Banquet on April 24th at the San Jacinto Residence Hall.

Monday, 07 April 2008

Congratulations to the Spring Symposium Poster Session Winners!

Congratulations to the following 2008 Spring Symposium Poster Session Winners: Undergraduates 1st Place- WENLY RUAN 2nd Place- CHAD WEBB 3rd Place- VINAY MIKKILINENI Graduate Students & Postdocs 1st Place- MICHAEL O'KEEFE 2nd Place- JEFF STRAHAN 3rd Place- JOAQUIN RODRÍGUEZ-LÓPEZ Great job to all those who presented posters, and thank ...