The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition celebrates the exciting research conducted by graduate students. Developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), the exercise cultivates students’ academic, presentation, and research communication skills. The competition supports their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.
Melanie Merrick receives the UT Austin McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering Research Award for Best Chemical Engineering Research Poster at the Graduate and Industry Networking GAIN 2018 event.
Melanie Merrick places 2nd in the Environmental and Sustainability Poster Category at UT Energy Week 2018.
Engineers in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to help lead a five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation engineering research center aimed at developing new mobile technologies for converting natural gas into transportation fuels near rural natural gas sites. [Read more…] about NSF ERC CISTAR
Alon Kirschner won the Texas Desalination Association Ed Archuleta Desalter Scholarship Fund prize based on his research in water purification. The award is named for Ed Archuleta, a pioneer in desalination in Texas.
Alon Y. Kirschner Receives the Elias Klein Travel Supplement from the North American Membrane Society (NAMS) for the 2017 International Congress on Membranes (ICOM).
The Elias Klein Founders’ Travel Supplement program supports students needing limited financial assistance and will provide up to $500 in reimbursement for reasonable expenses (e.g. travel cost, registration, workshops) for attending ICOM 2017 to present their research (oral or poster presentation). This award program is named in honor of Elias Klein, whose vision and spirit guided the founding of NAMS in 1985.
