Adam Heller Awarded Torbern Bergman Medal in Analytical Chemistry
The award honors Heller’s work on ground-breaking diabetes management products that have improved the quality of life of millions.
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Tower Lighting Honors Grant Willson
The UT Tower was recently lit to honor ChE Professor Grant Willson for winning the Japan Prize, an international award similar to the Nobel Prize.
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Raising A Future Scientist
Professors Michael Baldea and Lydia Contreras launch a program to engage underrepresented middle schoolers in STEM education.
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Top-Ranked Graduate Programs
The department’s graduate program maintained its No.6 spot in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings, while the Cockrell School rose to No. 10.
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AIChE Retains E-Week Title
For the second year in a row, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers student chapter has been crowned champions of Engineering Week.
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Peppas Elected to the Academy of Athens
In recognition of his scientific contributions, Prof. Peppas has been inducted to the Academy of Athens. He is one of three UT Austin professors to have ever received this honor.
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Seniors Start A Legacy
Six seniors have each pledged $5,000 over five years to create a Senior Class Endowment that will fund undergraduate research opportunities and teaching incentives. They hope others give, too.
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Did you know?
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- The department has a network of more than 6,000 alumni world-wide
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- The department has two Institute of Medicine members
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- Faculty have produced six successful start-up companies
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- Temporal Variability in Flaring Emissions in the Houston–Galveston Area
- Creating New Types of Carbon-Based Membranes
- Characterization of Aluminum-Neutralized Sulfonated Styrenic Pentablock Copolymer Films
- Force-matching-based parameterization of the Stillinger-Weber potential for thermal conduction in silicon
- Enhancing Visible Light Photo-oxidation of Water with TiO2 Nanowire Arrays via Cotreatment with H2 and NH3: Synergistic Effects between Ti3+ and N
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Meet our Faculty
John Ekerdt
Associate Dean for Research & Professor Ekerdt works in Advanced Materials; Energy; Microelectronics; Surface & Interface Science with specific interests in Electronic materials chemistry; Thin film growth kinetics and chemistry; Barrier materials; Biomass conversion kinetics and chemistry.