News: Chemistry

Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

Accolades

Chelikowsky Receives 2025 Hill Prize in Physical Sciences

Three UT Austin scientists and engineers received high-risk high-reward awards this year from TAMEST.

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Accolades

University of Texas Chemist Receives Presidential Early Career Award

Zachariah Page is among a select group of scientists and engineers to receive a 2025 PECASE award.

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Texas Research

Design Thinking Sparks Novel Research Among Newly Tenured Faculty

Among the UT faculty members to strike up cross-sector research partnerships are Michael Drew and Carlos Baiz.

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Accolades

Samanta Receives Packard Fellowship

Devleena Samanta is the first faculty member from the University of Texas at Austin to receive the early-career award in the chemistry category.

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Research

Carbohydrate Polymers Could be a Sweet Solution for Water Purification

In Cassandra Callmann and her team’s proof-of-concept, the sticky materials removed heavy metals including cadmium and lead.

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Accolades

Chemistry Ph.D. Student Awarded Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

UT Austin student Alexia Hartzell has been named a recipient of the prestigious Department of Energy award.

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Accolades

College of Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards

The awards from the National Science Foundation support innovative work by earlier-career faculty.

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Features

Bridging Chemistry and Physics on the Path to New Materials

Five questions with Allen J. Bard Center for Electrochemistry director Michael Rose.

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Accolades

Celebrating the 2024 College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Honored Graduates

Meet the graduating seniors being recognized for excellence in research, academics and improving the community.

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Accolades

Two UT Scientists Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Chemist Eric Anslyn and molecular bioscientist Howard Ochman are among the UT faculty joining the Academy.

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