Join us in celebrating the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering's faculty, Dr. Hildebrandt Ruiz, for receiving the American Chemical Society James J. Morgan Early Career Award.
Recent Awards
Recipient of James J. Morgan Early Career Award
Join us in celebrating the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering's faculty, Dr. Hildebrandt Ruiz, for receiving the American Chemical Society James J. Morgan Early Career Award.
Alumna Awarded Among Top Inventors in U.S.
Congratulations to Van N. Truskett, alumna of the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, for being selected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
Staff Spotlight Award
We’re pleased to recognize our front-line staff who’ve continued to work on campus to keep the department running during COVID19.
Nicholas Peppas to Receive Prestigious Oesper Award for Contributions to Chemistry
Nicholas Peppas has been honored with the 2020 Oesper Award from the University of Cincinnati’s Chemistry Department and the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society for his outstanding accomplishments in and contributions to science.
Peppas holds the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering. He is a professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, … Read the rest »
Jim Chelikowsky Recognized for Contributions in Electronic Materials
Professor Jim Chelikowsky has been awarded The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society’s (TMS) John Bardeen Award. The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions and are leaders in the field of electronic materials.
Throughout his 50-year career, Chelikowsky’s focus has been studying electronic materials such as silicon across all length scales. Silicon semiconductors make … Read the rest »
Alum Jean-Louis Salager Internationally Recognized for Advancements in Surfactant Chemistry
Texas ChE alum Jean-Louis Salager (Ph.D. ChE ’75 and postdoc ‘77-’78) has received The Samuel Rosen Memorial Award from the American Oil Chemists’ Society, an international honor that recognizes a surfactant chemist for significant advancements or application of surfactant chemistry principles.
Salager is one of only two academic recipients in the award’s 29-year history. He … Read the rest »
Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz Receives AIChE’s Environmental Division Early Career Award
Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz, assistant professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the 2020 Environmental Division Early Career Award by the American Institute of Chemical Engineering.
Hildebrandt Ruiz’s research focuses on atmospheric chemistry and the effects of physical and chemical processing of pollutants on human exposure in indoor and outdoor environments. … Read the rest »
Ten Texas ChE Students Awarded NSF Fellowships
Seven graduate students and three undergraduates have received a prestigious NSF Fellowship to conduct world-changing research.
Lydia Contreras Awarded the American Chemical Society’s Biotechnology Division Young Investigator Award
The American Chemical Society’s Biotechnology Division (ACS BIOT) has selected Lydia Contreras, associate professor and Laurence E. McMakin, Jr. Centennial Fellow in Chemical Engineering, for their 2020 Young Investigator Award.
The award recognizes an outstanding contributor, 40 years of age or younger, to the field of biochemical technology. Contreras studies the fundamental … Read the rest »
Grant Willson Wins Engineering’s Highest Honor
The National Academy of Engineering is honoring Willson for developing semiconductor materials used to manufacture microprocessors and memory chips for personal computers, mobile phones and motor vehicles.