Leading Biomolecular Engineers Meet Locally
Associate Prof. Hal Alper recently co-chaired the 5th International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering at the Lost Pines Resort near Austin.
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Resources
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Peppas Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
The UK’s top professional body for chemical scientists recognized Prof. Nicholas Peppas for his outstanding contributions to chemistry.
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Bob Schechter’s Memorial Resolution
A faculty committee recently completed a memorial resolution to recognize Prof. Emeritus Robert Schechter’s achievements and contributions to UT Austin.
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Sai Gourisankar Named Rhodes Scholar
The ChE senior is one of 32 students nationwide being recognized for outstanding intellect, character, leadership and commitment to service.
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Did you know?
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- The department has approximately 190 graduate students
- The department generates $20 million in annual research funding
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $73,938
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the undergraduate program No. 6
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- Metabolic engineering of strains: from industrial-scale to lab-scale chemical production
- Thin Nanocolumnar Ge0.9Se0.1 Films Are Rapidly Lithiated/Delithiated
- Pulsed Laser Deposition of Epitaxial and Polycrystalline Bismuth Vanadate Thin Films
- Exploiting post-transcriptional regulation to probe RNA structures in vivo via fluorescence
- Precision Marangoni-driven patterning
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Meet our Faculty
Hal Alper
Assistant Professor Alper works in Bioengineering; Energy with specific interests in Metabolic Engineering; Synthetic Biology; Systems Biology; Biofuels production using microbial and fungal sources; Mammalian cell culture engineering; Pathway engineering for the production of novel biofuels and biochemicals; Protein engineering and evolution strategies applied to cellular engineering; Value-added products and bioactive molecules in eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems; Novel molecular biology tools for gene expression and regulation.