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?
- Faculty have produced six successful start-up companies
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- The department has two Institute of Medicine members
- The department has approximately 190 graduate students
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- Oligosaccharide/Silicon-Containing Block Copolymers with 5 nm Features for Lithographic Applications
- Microporous membranes of PLLA/PCL blends for periosteal tissue scaffold
- Industrial Flare Performance at Low Flow Conditions. 1. Study Overview
- A Computational Study of the Interfacial Structure and Capacitance of Graphene in [BMIM][PF6] Ionic Liquid
- Analysis of DNA-Guided Self-Assembly of Microspheres Using Imaging Flow Cytometry
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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.