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Amit Bhasin, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering, has been named the new director of the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at The University of Texas at Austin. He assumed the role on Feb. 15 and is the fifth director in the center’s 55-year history.

If you’re lucky enough to be at a Longhorn football game during an Alumni Band Day, chances are Rick Church will be there too, proudly playing his tuba in the X of the “Texas” formation. What you may not know is that Church recently made the largest planned gift ever to the Longhorn Band — $12 million, to be exact.

 A team of chemical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a new, cost-effective method for synthetically producing a biorenewable platform chemical called triacetic acid lactone (TAL) that can be used to produce innovative new drugs and sustainable plastics at an industrial scale, as described this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Four professors from The University of Texas at Austin, along with one alumna, have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for 2018. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions bestowed upon an engineer.

Srinivas Bettadpur, an associate professor of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named director of the Center for Space Research (CSR) in the Cockrell School of Engineering.