Leading Biomolecular Engineers Meet Locally
Associate Prof. Hal Alper recently co-chaired the 5th International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering at the Lost Pines Resort near Austin.
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Resources
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Peppas Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
The UK’s top professional body for chemical scientists recognized Prof. Nicholas Peppas for his outstanding contributions to chemistry.
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Bob Schechter’s Memorial Resolution
A faculty committee recently completed a memorial resolution to recognize Prof. Emeritus Robert Schechter’s achievements and contributions to UT Austin.
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Sai Gourisankar Named Rhodes Scholar
The ChE senior is one of 32 students nationwide being recognized for outstanding intellect, character, leadership and commitment to service.
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- Faculty have produced six successful start-up companies
- Average starting salary for B.S. graduates is $73,938
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the McKetta graduate program No.6
- Faculty have won 20 percent of major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in recent years
- 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
- U.S. News & World Report ranks the undergraduate program No. 6
- The department hosts nine National Academy of Engineering members
- The department has two Institute of Medicine members
- The department has more than 700 undergraduate students
- Tin fluorophosphate nonwovens by melt state centrifugal Forcespinning
- Exploiting post-transcriptional regulation to probe RNA structures in vivo via fluorescence
- Integration of Scheduling and Control Using Internal Coupling Models
- Coarse-graining in simulations of multicomponent polymer systems
- Functional implications of ribosomal RNA methylation in response to environmental stress
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Venkat Ganesan
Professor Ganesan works in Advanced Materials; Energy; Modeling, Simulation & Theory; Polymers; Surface & Interface Science with specific interests in Self-assembly in polymer-particle mixtures; Simulations of dynamics of self-assembled materials; Theory and simulation of rod-coil and crystallizable polymers; Simulations of structure and properties of materials for fuel cell and photovoltaic applications.