Professors Grant Willson and S.V. Sreenivasan received the Inventor of the Year award for developing a nanolithography process used for manufacturing computer chips, hard drives and other electronic components
The storage capacity of hard disk drives could increase by a factor of five thanks to processes developed by chemical engineering Professors Grant Willson and Chris Ellison and ChE senior Leon Dean.
The researchers’ technique, which relies on self-organizing substances known as block copolymers, was described in a recent article in Science magazine. It’s … Read the rest »
Hal Alper has won the 2013 Biotechnology and Bioengineering Daniel I.C. Wang Award for his research in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. The award is presented by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering. The award recognizes a young member of the biotechnology/bioengineering academic community for commitment to the journal and the … Read the rest »
John Ekerdt, associate dean for research in the Cockrell School of Engineering and professor of chemical engineering, has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Fellows are chosen annually by their peers to recognize their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
Ekerdt was … Read the rest »
Nicholas A. Peppas, chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Ljubljana Dec. 4 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Attendees of the official ceremony included the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr. Danilo Türk, the President of the Slovenian Academy of Science, … Read the rest »
Professor Brian Korgel and his research group have been featured on chemeurope.com for creating the first ordered arrays, or superlattices, of silicon nanocrystals, also known as quantum dots. Their work could help utilize light-emitting properties of silicon to develop things like light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or possible lasers.
Bulk silicon is one of the most commercially … Read the rest »
The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering was recently ranked No. 4 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report’s (USNWR) 2013 undergraduate rankings.
“The recent rankings recognize the excellence of our program and the high quality of our students as judged by industry and academia,” said Roger Bonnecaze, department chair, William and … Read the rest »
Undergraduate Julie Fogarty won the Commended Synthetic Biology Presentation Award at Rice University’s Regional Undergraduate Chemistry and Biochemistry & Cell Biology Symposium. Her winning presentation was titled ”Engineering Low Affinity Protein-Protein Interactions by Functional Presentation on the Phage Coat Protein P8.”
“I am extremely honored to win this award,” said Fogarty. ”This was my first major scientific presentation outside … Read the rest »
Creating fuel from sunlight sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie depicting technology of the future, but Professor Mullins and his team are working to make this concept a reality. Trailblazers in energy research, the Mullins Group is also studying materials in lithium-ion batteries for portable electronic devices and electric cars as well as … Read the rest »
Venkat Ganesan, the Kenneth A. Kobe Professor in Chemical Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for “contributions to innovative computer simulation approaches and analysis of equilibrium and dynamic properties of multicomponent polymeric materials and nanocomposites.”
“Venkat is a real pioneer in the modeling of a variety of polymer based … Read the rest »
