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?
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- The department has a network of more than 6,000 alumni world-wide
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- The department has two National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureates
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- Faculty have produced six successful start-up companies
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- Elucidating the Structure of Poly(dopamine)
- Modeling and control of a solar thermal power plant with thermal energy storage
- Nanohole-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Instruments with Improved Spectral Resolution Quantify a Broad Range of Antibody-Ligand Binding Kinetics
- Characterization of Aluminum-Neutralized Sulfonated Styrenic Pentablock Copolymer Films
- Cryogenic Process to Elaborate Poly(ethylene glycol) Scaffolds. Experimental and Simulation Studies
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Meet our Faculty
James Chelikowsky
Professor Chelikowsky works in Advanced Materials; Energy; Modeling, Simulation & Theory with specific interests in Computational materials science; Quantum modeling for electronic materials; High performance computing.