Month: May 2015

Charlie Chirino receives William A. Brookshire IMPACT Scholarship

Undergraduate student Charlie Chirino was named a 2015-16 William A. Brookshire IMPACT scholar by the University of Houston Foundation. Dr. William A. Brookshire received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston in 1957. He then enrolled in graduate program at LSU, where he earned his Masters of Science and …

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Yuying Song and Melanie Hazlett win SWCS Poster Awards

Congratulations to Yuying and Melanie for winning best poster awards at the 2015 Spring Symposium of the Southwest Catalysis Society (SWCS)! Yuying and Melanie both work on a NSF/DOE sponsored team project to improve catalyst composition and architecture for emissions control from advanced low temperature combustion engines. Read the full story here.

Hung Tran wins Teaching Award

Congratulations to Hung Tran Vu for winning the 2015 Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Organic Chemistry Award from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Houston. Hung joined our group early 2015 and is complementing his Ph.D. thesis with a computational project on methane activation.