News and Highlights

Tuesday, 01 May 2012

Eight Chemistry and Biochemistry Undergrads Receive Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarships

Congratulations to Wenrui Chai, Leslie Chang, Ricardo Garza Jr., Bruce Kuan-Yee Hua, Ryan Lannan, Hyunwoo Lee, Naveen Mehta, and Tyler West on receiving 2012-2013 Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarships (UEPS). The UEPS program was created in 1973 to make available substantial scholarships for outstanding students at The University of Texas ...

Friday, 30 March 2012

John Brantley awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

John Brantley, a second year student in the Bielawski Group has been awarded a 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.  The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited US in...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Graduate student, Cory Nelson, invited to 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Cory Nelson, a graduate student in Professor Xiaoyang Zhu’s research group, received an invitation from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science to attend the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Physics in Lindau, Germany. This summer, more than 25 Nobel Laureates and 550 young researchers from across the globe will meet to excha...

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Four graduate students receive prestigious Graduate Continuing Fellowship awards

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is proud to announce that four of our graduate students received prestigious Graduate Continuing Fellowship awards for the 2011-2012 academic year.  The competition involves over 240 nominations from across campus, with most programs limited to nominating just three of their best students. Only abou...

Tuesday, 06 December 2011

Biochemistry Student, Diya Liu, Wins Marie Claire Front Row College Challenge

Congratulations to Biochemistry student Diya Liu on winning the Marie Clair Front Row College Challenge! We are very proud of her achievement. Diya Liu. In addition to putting on a runway show sponsored by Marie Claire and LOFT  at the Mohawk in November, Diya will have the opportunity to intern in NYC this summer.     http://www....