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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Edgar Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Four UT Austin professors were recently elected to the NAE, the most of any university nationwide this year.
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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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Meet The OXE Officers
Find out more about the students leading Omega Chi Epsilon, the national chemical engineering honor society student chapter.
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A Journey To Greatness Started In A Coal Mine
Reporter Forrest Preece recently wrote about John McKetta's life for West Austin News.
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Did you know?
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $72,800
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- Department faculty were awarded the highest number of patents at UT Austin in 2010-2011
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- Five faculty members are among the top 25 most cited chemical engineers in the world
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- Improving the Stability of Nanostructured Silicon Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes through Their Controlled Oxidation
- A Computational Study of the Interfacial Structure and Capacitance of Graphene in [BMIM][PF6] Ionic Liquid
- Mixed-Valence Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as Electrochemical Half-Cells: Substituting the Ag/AgCl of Reference Electrodes by CeO2–x Nanoparticles
- Oligosaccharide/Silicon-Containing Block Copolymers with 5 nm Features for Lithographic Applications
- Polarity-Switching Top Coats Enable Orientation of Sub–10-nm Block Copolymer Domains
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Meet our Faculty
Lydia Contreras
Assistant Professor Contreras works in Bioengineering with specific interests in RNA-protein interactions, RNA-protein folding; Novel molecular tools for intracellular studies of RNA-metabolism; Protein engineering for novel mechanisms of molecular recognition; Diagnostics for RNA-related diseases; Discovery of drugs targeting RNAs; Optimization strategies for therapeutic RNA/protein expression.