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 approximately 190 graduate students
- The department has 22.75 full-time faculty
- Department faculty were awarded the highest number of patents at UT Austin in 2010-2011
- The department generates $14.5 million in annual research funding
- The department has two Institute of Medicine members
- The average starting salary for Ph.D. graduates is $95,423
- The department has a network of more than 6,000 alumni world-wide
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta undergraduate program No. 9
- Nanohole-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Instruments with Improved Spectral Resolution Quantify a Broad Range of Antibody-Ligand Binding Kinetics
- Analysis of DNA-Guided Self-Assembly of Microspheres Using Imaging Flow Cytometry
- Improving the Stability of Nanostructured Silicon Thin Film Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes through Their Controlled Oxidation
- Formation of depth filter microfiltration membranes of poly(l-lactic acid) via phase separation
- Modeling and control of a solar thermal power plant with thermal energy storage
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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.