Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin

Congratulations, Alexia Hartzell!

Chemistry Ph.D. Student Awarded Computational Science Graduate Fellowship University of Texas at Austin graduate student Alexia Hartzell has been named a recipient of the prestigious Department of Energy award.

Congratulations to Ken Hsu, recipient of an Early Career Development (CAREER) Award!

College of Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards Five College of Natural Sciences faculty have earned recent Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards from the National Science Foundation.

We are excited to announce that Kurtis Carsch is joining our department!

https://cm.utexas.edu/news/entry/kurtis-carsch-joining-department

Congratulations to Eric Anslyn!

Two UT Scientists Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Eric Anslyn and Howard Ochman of The University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences are among four UT faculty selected for the Academy in 2024.

Congratulations to Jenny Brodbelt, recipient of the 2024 ASMS John B. Fenn Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry

https://cm.utexas.edu/news/entry/jenny-brodbelt-receives-2024-asms-john-b-fenn-award-for-a-distinguished-contribution-in-mass-spectrometry

Cancer Prevention, Screening and Research Programs Expanding With CPRIT Support AUSTIN, Texas — Patients across Texas stand to benefit from expanded breast and lung cancer detection and screening, research on HPV self-testing, and

UT Austin’s Zachariah Page was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow and won a top ACS young scholar award for 2024.

Chemistry Professor Receives Sloan Research Fellowship and Mark Young Scholar Award UT Austin’s Zachariah Page was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow and won a ACS young scholar award for 2024.

Allen J. Bard, known as the father of modern electrochemistry, has passed away.

Electrochemistry Pioneer and Texas Science Legend Allen Bard Dies AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin community is mourning the loss of Allen J. Bard, known around the world as the father of modern

Ken Hsu, Department of Chemistry, and colleagues at The University of Texas at Austin, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia are working towards a non-addictive painkiller by using a novel way to shut off inflammation.

Promising Drug Candidate Reduces Inflammation, Chronic Pain in Mice Ken Hsu and collaborators are working towards a non-addictive painkiller using a novel way to shut off inflammation.

Assistant Professor Devleena Samanta led a team to develop a new kind of sensor that can be used to find unique fingerprints of cancers, infections and neurodegenerative diseases.

New Sensors Could Detect Cancer and Other Diseases Earlier and More Precisely Devleena Samanta led a team to develop a new kind of sensor that can be used to find unique fingerprints of cancers, infections and neurodegenerative diseases.

Some great images from the department in the CNS Visualizing Science Competition!

NuvoNuro, co-founded by Stephen Martin, has received an NIH HEAL Initiative grant. This multi-year grant supports the development of a first-in-class, non-opioid drug to treat neuropathic pain.

NuvoNuro Receives HEAL grant NuvoNuro, a company recently co-founded by Professor Stephen Martin based upon his research at UT, has received a major NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term® (HEAL) Initiative grant. The grant is part of the research program Development and Optimization of Non-Addictive Therapies to Treat Pain an...

Congratulations to Devleena Samanta and Pedro Metola on receiving College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin Teaching Excellence Awards!

Devleena Samanta and Pedro Metola Receive Teaching Excellence Award Assistant Professor Devleena Samanta and Assistant Professor of Practice Pedro Metola are recipients of College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards.This award recognizes excellence among the College's many exceptional faculty who are committed to teaching at either the undergraduate or gr...

Nine Teams Granted Awards in 3rd Year of Scialog: Advancing BioImaging Top row: Eszter Boros, Shiva Abbaszadeh, Shwetadwip Chowdhury, Heather M. Whitney, Dylan McCreedy, F***y Chapelin. 2nd row: Seunghyun (Seu) Sim, Ruixuan Gao, Shawn Davidson, Yi-Chih Lin, Nick Galati, Lingyan Shi, Dylan McCreedy, Meghan Driscoll. 3rd row: Scott Cushing, Jing Liu, Lei Tian, Ryan J. Mc...

New Materials That Could Transform Our Lives Are in the Works at UT Austin

New Materials That Could Transform Our Lives Are in the Works at UT Austin - UT News AUSTIN, Texas — A technological leap sits on the horizon, with exciting capabilities like quantum computing, soft robotics and more coming down the pike.

We're ranked 7th in chemistry among U.S. universities (3rd among public universities) by Nature Index!

UT Austin Ranks among Top U.S. Universities in Nature Index The University of Texas at Austin ranks highly for natural sciences in the 2023 Nature Index: 6th among public universities in the U.S.

“This process gives us a whole new way of designing materials.”

New Material Transforms Light, Creating New Possibilities for Sensors - UT News AUSTIN, Texas — A group of scientists and engineers that includes researchers from The University of Texas at Austin has created a new class of materials

Congrats to this year's Dean's Honored Graduates!

The College of Natural Sciences bestows its highest honors for graduating seniors on a select group of students each year that are known as Dean’s Honored Graduates. The DHG Award recognizes graduating students that embody the highest ideals of our college.
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Meet the 27 Dean’s Honored Graduates of 2023 at txsci.net/dhg2023.

Newfound Link Between Alzheimer’s and Iron Could Lead to New Medical Interventions A novel imaging method using DNA-based fluorescent sensors is yielding new insights about the progression of Alzheimer's disease

Congratulations Hang Ren!

Three Faculty Members Awarded Sloan Fellowships ​The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today the early-career researchers across the U.S. and Canada who are recipients of the 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship, including three UT Austin faculty members in the College of Natural Sciences: Greg Durrett, Sam Raskin and Hang Ren. ...

Green' reducing agents could help tackle climate change and treat contaminated water.

Nanoparticles Make it Easier to Turn Light into Solvated Electrons 'Green' reducing agents could help tackle climate change and treat contaminated water. When scientists shine low-intensity near-ultraviolet light on metal nanoparticles, electrons in the nanoparticles oscillate. This oscillation, referred to as a plasmon, can gi...

Each year, the CEC Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry brings together experts in fields of engineering, materials, and electrochemistry to focus on a few topics in important areas of electrochemical research. The CEC Workshop features scientists and researchers from top universities, national laboratories, and electrochemical industries discussing cutting-edge electrochemical science, and addressing topics related to mechanisms of electron transfer.

2023 CEC Annual Workshop on Electrochemistry - Registration Opens Nov. 19, 2022 | Center for Electrochemistry Saturday, February 11, 2023 Welch Convocation Center – Room WEL 2.122  Open interactive map centered on the Welch building

Chemistry Researcher Earns Prestigious Allen Distinguished Investigator Award Yi Lu, a professor of chemistry and the Richard J. V. Johnson – Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry, has been honored with an Allen Distinguished Investigator award, it was announced today.

Inspired by living things from trees to shellfish, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin set out to create a plastic much like many life forms that are hard and rigid in some places and soft and stretchy in others­.

‘Smart Plastic’ Material is Step Forward Toward Soft, Flexible Robotics and Electronics Inspired by living things from trees to shellfish, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin set out to create a plastic much like many life forms that are hard and rigid in some places and soft and stretchy in others­. Their success — a first, using only light and a catalyst to change pro...

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Oversight Committee recently awarded a recruitment grant for Ku-Lung "Ken" Hsu, a chemist joining The University of Texas at Austin. The CPRIT Scholar recruitment grant program attracts established and up-and-coming researchers to Texas institutions to advance their cancer-related research.

Cancer Agency Awards Grant to Recruit New Faculty in Chemistry The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) Oversight Committee recently awarded a recruitment grant for Ku-Lung Ken Hsu, a chemist joining The University of Texas at Austin. The CPRIT Scholar recruitment grant program attracts established and up-and-coming researchers to Texas ins...

Baiz Earns Prestigious Research Fellowship Carlos Baiz, associate professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation.

We are excited to announce that Ken Hsu will join our department in 2023! https://cm.utexas.edu/news/entry/ku-lung-ken-hsu

Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu Joining Department The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Dr. Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu will join the University of Texas at Austin in 2023 as a CPRIT Scholar. Dr. Hsu will bring his innovative program in chemical biology, focusing on protein biology and metabolism to develop new pharmacological approaches fo...