Faculty News
Professor Lauren Webb Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation are pleased to announce that Professor Lauren Webb has been awarded a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship. Professor Webb is one of 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers selected as recipients for 2012. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships are given to early-career scientists [...]
Ellington receives $1.6 million grant to develop test for drug-resistant tuberculosis
Professor Andy Ellington has received a $1.6 million grant through the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative to develop a paper-based test for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). The goal is to develop a system for rapidly diagnosing drug-resistant TB in areas that lack the appropriate infrastructure, such as parts of Afghanistan and Africa. Unique to Ellington’s [...]
Paul McCord promoted
Congratulations to Paul McCord who has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Dr. McCord joined the department as a lecturer in 1994 after receiving his PhD under the supervision of Allen Bard. In 2009, he won a Texas Exes Teaching Excellence Award.
Professors Iverson and Marcotte named AAAS Fellows
Professors Brent Iverson and Edward Marcotte have been named Fellows of the American Associate for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS fellows are chosen annually by their peers to recognize their scientifically distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. They will be recognized for their contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum [...]
Five Department Faculty Issued Patents in 2011
Five Chemistry and Biochemistry department faculty were issued United States patents in 2011 and were honored recently at the inaugural UT Austin Inventor of the Year award ceremony, sponsored by the UT Office of Technology Commercialization. Brad Holliday, Alan Cowley, and Richard Jones were each inventors on a US patent titled, “Polymer-nanoparticle compositions and methods [...]
Professor Xiaoyang Zhu elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society
Professor Xiaoyang Zhu has been elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for his “pioneering investigations of surface molecular structure, electronic band alignment, and femtosecond electron and nuclear dynamics at molecule-solid interfaces, including applications to surface photochemistry, molecular electronics, and solar energy conversion.” Professor Zhu will be presented with this honor at [...]
Bard and Meyers awarded GCEP grant for Redox Flow Battery Research
Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project has awarded $3.5 million to five universities to develop new technologies that improve energy storage on the grid. Stanford University’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) is awarding $3.5 million to researchers at five universities to develop new technologies that could dramatically improve energy storage capacity on the electric [...]
Marvin Hackert Elected to the Executive Committee of the International Union of Crystallography
Congratulations to Marvin Hackert on his election to a 6-year term on the Executive Committee of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). “The IUCr is an International Scientific Union. Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography, to promote international publication of crystallographic research, to facilitate [...]
Professors Iverson and Stanton Win 2011 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award
The Board of Regents of the UT System has selected Chemistry and Biochemistry professors Brent Iverson and John Stanton to receive the 2011 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. Offered annually in recognition of faculty members at the nine University of Texas System academic institutions who have demonstrated extraordinary classroom performance and innovation in undergraduate instruction, [...]
Department inviting applications for tenure-track faculty positions
The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for tenure-track positions at the assistant professor level in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. Special attention will be given to applicants whose research interests target major interdisciplinary efforts at the interfaces of chemistry with biology and in materials chemistry, [...]