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Google’s support to the Energy Institute will fund research and education related to powering data centers, said Professor and director of the Energy Institute Brian Korgel. It is part of Google’s $40 billion investment in Texas, announced last week by Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Governor Greg Abbott. 

Published by Energy Institute. 

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Nanotechnology–defined as the study of material properties and interactions on a nanometer length scale–looks at matter at an unbelievably tiny scale...

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AIChE’s Regenerative Engineering Society has named Nicholas A. Peppas the recipient of its Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Society Founder’s Award.

Students in a semiconductor clean room at the University of Texas at Austin

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From the phone in your pocket to the car in your driveway, semiconductors power modern life.

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A pair of graduates—father and son Habib Chamoun and Antoine Chamoun-Farah—received their Ph.D. from the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, 37 years apart. They also shared a professor who was instrumental in their education journey.

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This November, AIChE® holds its Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, and we're showing up...

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Texas Engineer Lydia Contreras teamed up with renowned poet Christian Bök to encode poetry into a “deathless bacterium.”

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Dave Allen, the Norbert Dittrich-Welch Chair in Chemical Engineering, will serve as interim chair effective August 1.

Interim Chair David Allen at his desk.

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Dave Allen to serve as interim chair as Delia Milliron has accepted the appointment of Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. 

Nicholas Peppas has won Northwestern’s Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine.

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Texas Engineer Wins Northwestern’s Kabiller Prize.