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Arthur Chavez wins 2023 President's Outstanding Staff Award
Senior Procurement Officer, Arthur Chavez has been named the winner of a 2023 President's Outstanding Staff Award. This prestigious honor comes with a cash award and Arthur will be recognized by the President of the University at a ceremony in late s...
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Seung Wook Kim Receives Korean American Society in Biotech and Pharmaceuticals Fellowship Award
Graduate student Seung Wook Kim of the Krische Group is the recipient of a 2019 Korean American Society in Biotech and Pharmaceuticals (KASBP) Spring Fellowship. Every year at their Spring and Fall Symposiums, the KASBP Fellowship Committee awards fellowships to outstanding young research scientists who made a stellar contr...Graeme Henkelman named holder of the George W. Watt Centennial Professorship
Congratulations to Professor Graeme Henkelman on being named the holder of the George W. Watt Centennial Professorship. This professorship recognizes his outstanding performance in Chemistry and reflects unanimous appraisal of his excellent career trajectory. The George W. Watt Centennial Professorship was established by the Board of Rege...Livia Eberlin Receives AACC Outstanding Scientific Achievements by a Young Investigator Award
Assistant Professor Livia Eberlin is the recipient of the 2019 American Association for Clinical Chemistry Outstanding Scientific Achievements by a Young Investigator Award. This award recognizes the professional development of a young investigator who has shown outstanding scientific achievements in the field of clinical laboratory medicine e...Dave Thirumalai Receives the Hans Neurath Award
Professor Dave Thirumalai is the 2019 recipient of the Hans Neurath Award. The Hans Neurath Award honors individuals who have made a recent contribution of exceptional merit to basic protein research. Professor Thirumalai will be presented the award at the Protein Society's 33rd Annual Symposium in Seattle, Washington.Michael Krische Receives Ta-Shue Chou Lectureship Award
Professor Michael J. Krische is the 2019 Ta-Shue Chou Lectureship Award administered by the Chinese Chemical Society (Taipei). This lectureship award has been designated as a mid-career award to honor an international recipient with great success in the broad field of research empowered by organic chemistry. A list of prior recipients is given belo...Livia Eberlin Receives ACS Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist
Assistant Professor Livia Eberlin is the recipient of the Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist from the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry. The award recognizes and encourages outstanding contributions by a young analytical scientist. Eberlin will be presented...Michael Rose, Ruth Shear, Stacy Sparks and Deborah Walker Promoted
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Mike Rose, Ruth Shear, Stacy Sparks, and Deborah Walker have been promoted, effective September 1, 2019. Michael Rose has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Rose received his PhD in 2009 from the University of California, Santa Cruz (advisor: Professor Pradip Mascharak), followe...Melissa Meyerson and Jason Weeks Win Energy Week Poster Competition
Melissa Meyerson and Jason Weeks, both graduate students in the Mullins Lab, won first and second place in the Sustainability and Renewable Energy category of the UT Energy Week Poster Competition. This interdisciplinary poster competition promotes the development of energy research in the academic community and allows students to share their work ...Juliette Strasser Receives Safety-First Leadership Fellowship
We are pleased to announce Juliette Strasser, a graduate student in the Crooks’ group, as the first recipient of the new Safety-First Leadership Fellowship. Juliette proposed the creation of a set of safety-themed slides that will be shown prior to each departmental seminar (one slide per seminar). A call for safety slides will be issued soon and p...Livia Eberlin Named Emerging Inventor of the Year
Assistant Professor Livia Eberlin is the Office of Technology Commercialization's Emerging Inventor of the Year. Her invention, the MasSpec Pen, is an automated and biocompatible handheld mass spectrometry device for rapid and non-destructive diagnosis of human cancer tissues. Click here for the full article about the award.Olja Simoska Attends International Conference of Young Scientists in Moscow
In September, graduate student Olja Simoska, member of the Shear research group (UT Austin) and the Stevenson research group (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology), attended the 3rd International Conference of Young Scientists in Moscow, Russia organized by the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Moscow State Univers...Hiroki Sato Finalist for Bader Award
Hiroki Sato, graduate student in the Krische Group, was a 2018 finalist for the Alfred R. Bader Award for Student Innovation. The Bader Award recognizes student chemists whose innovations have the potential to advance science today and spark progress well into the future. Sato, along this year's other finalists and grand prize awardee, pr...Carlos Baiz and Emily Que Receive Teaching Excellence Awards
Congratulations to Assistant Professors Carlos Baiz and Emily Que, recipients of the 2018 College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. This award recognizes faculty who have had a positive influence on the educational experience of our students. The recipients were honored at last night's Teaching Discovery Dinner.Hung-Wen Liu Receives Claude S. Hudson Award
Professor Hung-Wen (Ben) Liu is the 2019 recipient of the Claude S. Hudson Award presented by the American Chemical Society Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry. The Claude S. Hudson Award was established by the Division in 1946 to recognize outstanding contributions to carbohydrate chemistry in education, research, or applic...Dave Thirumalai Receives 2018 Oesper Award
Professor Dave Thirumalai is the recipient of the 2018 Oesper Award presented by the University of Cincinnati Department of Chemistry and the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes outstanding chemists for a lifetime of significant accomplishments in the field of chemistry with long lasting impact on the...Stephen Martin Named American Chemical Society Fellow
Professor Stephen F. Martin has been named a 2018 American Chemical Society Fellow. The fellows program began in 2009 to recognize ACS members for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and ACS. Professor Martin and the other 2018 Class of ACS Fellows will be honored at the society's national meeting in Augus...Jonathan Sessler Receives Thomas Dougherty Award for Excellence in Photodynamic Therapy
Professor Jonathan Sessler received the Thomas Dougherty Award for Excellence in Photodynamic Therapy at the 10th International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-10) in Munich, Germany organized by the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (SPP). The lifetime acheivement award was presented by Professors Dirk Guldi (Friedrich-...Atmospheric Chemistry Models Missing Key Mechanism Related to Air Pollution, Says New Study
Atmospheric chemists have struggled for years to explain why our atmosphere has so much nitrous acid, a compound involved in the creation and removal of common air pollutants that impact human health. According to their computer simulations, there should only be about half as much nitrous acid as is actually measured in places like Beijing and Mexi...ExxonMobil Hosts Graduate Students for Laboratory Safety Workshop
ExxonMobil’s Baytown Technology and Engineering Center recently hosted 80 graduate students from six universities for its annual Partners in Academic Laboratory Safety (PALS) Workshop. Now in its fifth year, the PALS program establishes mentoring relationships between ExxonMobil and faculty, staff and students from partner universities to enhance l...News
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New Advanced Quantum Science Institute Will Bridge Basic Research and Applied Science
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Cancer Prevention, Screening and Research Programs Expanding With CPRIT Support
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Chemistry Professor Receives Sloan Research Fellowship and Mark Young Scholar Award
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Remembering Electrochemistry Pioneer and Texas Science Legend Allen Bard
