Delia Milliron Named Next Chair
Cockrell School Dean Sharon Wood has named distinguished researcher and professor Delia Milliron as the next Texas ChE chair. Milliron will succeed current Chair Thomas Truskett on January 16, 2021.
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Resources
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COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Therapy is Safe, With 76% of Patients Improving
Texas ChE Research Associate Jason Lavinder made key contributions to the country’s first peer-reviewed study on a promising COVID-19 treatment.
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Sensor Network Could Change How Methane Emissions Are Detected
Project Astra, led by Dave Allen, is launching novel technology to revolutionize how methane leaks are found across oil and gas sites to minimize releases into the atmosphere.
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Which Disinfectants And Masks Work Best Together
Lea Hildebrant Ruiz is working on NSF funded research to study chemical reactions between disinfectants and masks when used together to fight COVID-19.
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Facts & Congrats
- Texas ChE graduate and undergraduate programs ranked #5 and #4 in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report
- Our faculty (1 percent of UT faculty) have won 60 percent of the UT Office of Technology Commercialization’s Inventor of the Year awards
- More than 100 department alumni have gone on to be faculty members around the world
- Our faculty publish an average of 250 papers per year
- The department has a network of more than 7,000 alumni world-wide
- 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
- The department has 30 graduate supervising faculty
- The department generates $20 million in annual research funding
- Faculty have generated ~10 start-up companies
- Charged poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) nanogels for use as differential protein receptors in a turbidimetric sensor array
- Phase behavior and interfacial properties of a switchable ethoxylated amine surfactant at high temperature and effects on CO2-in-water foams
- CO2 mass transfer and solubility in aqueous primary and secondary amine
- Sacrificial crystal templating of hyaluronic acid-based hydrogels
- Genome-wide analysis in bacteria show small RNA enrichment for long and conserved intergenic regions
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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.