Finding a sustainable alternative for today’s petrochemical industry is a major challenge facing chemical engineers and society at large. To be sustainable, routes for converting carbon dioxide and light into organic compounds for use as both fuels and chemical building blocks must be identified, understood, and engineered. Advances in metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and other … Read the rest »
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ALUMNI WEEKEND: Happy Hour at Posse East
Kick off Alumni Weekend with a happy hour gathering feet from campus at a local favorite bar and grill, Posse East. Join us for complimentary drinks and food, networking, and catching up.
Alumni, past and present faculty and staff, and graduate students are invited. RSVP here for all Alumni Weekend events.
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Academy of Distinguished Chemical Engineers Celebration and Banquet
The Academy of Distinguished Chemical Engineers celebration and banquet will be held on Friday, September 6, honoring the 2019 inductees: Rex Bennett, Hongming Chen, James Miller, Michael Piana, and James Rawlings. This ticketed event includes a cocktail hour, an elegant dinner, and a ceremony to celebrate our inductees.
The Academy of Distinguished Chemical Engineers, established … Read the rest »
ALUMNI WEEKEND: McKetta Tailgate, UT vs LSU
Annual football tailgate for students, alumni, faculty and friends.
Seminar: “How can particles with a mass fraction of a few parts per billion have such huge health and climate effects?” by Neil Donahue
Particles concentrate molecules and allow them to have outsized effects once they are large enough to scatter light, activate clouds, and deliver toxicants to the lung. The story of their size and composition is however nuanced and complex.
Seminar: “Powering the Circular Economy for Fresh Produce: Engineering at Apeel Sciences” by Richard Pattison
Today, 40% of the food grown goes to waste. Apeel Sciences seeks the advice of billions of years of evolution on Earth to solve this problem. They have developed processes to extract, repurpose, and apply the compounds which plants have evolved to construct barriers that slow the rate of water loss and oxidation. When applied … Read the rest »