Nicholas Peppas appointed chair of Biomedical Engineering
July 29, 2009
Nicholas A. Peppas, a highly decorated engineer who is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of France, and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, was named chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, Dean Gregory L. Fenves announced.
Director of new Energy Institute named at The University of Texas at Austin
July 14, 2009
Dr. Raymond Lee Orbach, the U.S. Department of Energy's first undersecretary for science, has been appointed director of The University of Texas at Austin's Energy Institute, a multi-disciplinary institute that combines the strengths of the university's schools and colleges to advance solutions to today's energy-related challenges.
The University of Texas at Austin licenses method that speeds electronics manufacturing to Versatilis
July 13, 2009
The University of Texas at Austin has licensed a time-saving technology for electronics manufacturing to Versatilis LLC of Shelburne, Vt.
White House awards electrical engineering assistant professor $1 million Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
July 10, 2009
Seth Bank, an electrical engineering assistant professor, was awarded a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals in the early stages of their research careers.
Two chemical engineering professors elected inaugural fellows of American Chemical Society
July 9, 2009
Donald Paul and Grant Willson, chemical engineering professors at The University of Texas at Austin, have been chosen as Inaugural Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Paper co-authored by aerospace engineering professor, graduate student selected as journal highlight
July 9, 2009
Aerospace engineering professor Gregory J. Rodin, graduate student Reza Soheilifard, and College of Natural Sciences associate professor Dmitrii Makarov have co-authored a paper that has been chosen for the 2008 Highlights of the journal Physical Biology.
Mechanical engineering professor's paper selected as journal highlight
July 9, 2009
Omar Ghattas, mechanical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin, authored a paper titled "A Newton-CG method for large-scale three-dimensional elastic full-waveform seismic inversion," which has been selected as a 2008 editorial board “highlight" of the journal Inverse Problems.
