Awards and Accolades
The Park Group has received a Max Planck Partner Group award for the project titled,
"Fundamental Chemical Processes at Model Catalyst Surfaces." The grant provides a
total of 100k EUR over the 2024-2029 period to support experiments at the Dalian Coherent
Light Source.
The Park Group has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for the project titled, "CAREER:
Tiny Drops of Acid: Microwave spectroscopy and isomer-resolved IR spectroscopy of
hydrohalic acid-water clusters." The award is for a total funding of $569,970 over
the 2024-2029 period.
Prof. Georgieva was selected as a recipient of a Gilead Research Scholars Program
(HIV) Award to advance her studies in HIV-1 Vpu complexes with host proteins.
Prof. Korzeniewski's lab is part of the new Center for Ionomer-based Water Electrolysis
(CIWE) led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in connect with the DOE Energy
Earthshot Research Center program+ More(https://science.osti.gov/Initiatives/SCEarthshots/EERCs). The Center aims to improve
hydrogen generation by analyzing the use of ion-conducting polymers (ionomers) for
low-temperature electrolysis. CIWE partners are Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Colorado
School of Mines, Texas Tech University, University of Oregon, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine,
and UC Merced. Texas Tech will receive $670,000 over the four-year project period
beginning Jan 1, 2024.
Prof. Mechref is elected as the spokesperson for the Horn Distinguished Professors
starting January 2024.
Additional Departmental News
Student Highlights
Sara Strickland, a Student in Prof. Pappas' Group, presented her talk at the Texas Microscopy Society and won Best Talk.
Sara Strickland also won the small grant competition at the Texas Microscopy Society to fund reagents on her project.
Sara Strickland received a Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School.
Tan Nguyen, a student of Prof. Kristufek, placed 3rd in the 3-minute thesis competition out of a pool of competitors. He was awarded $100 as a prize. His thesis was about modifying current plastic bottles with an additional monomer to increase in the efficiency of the recycling process. If this modification works, it'll increase the prices of plastic bottles but it will ensure that most of those bottles don't end up in the ocean or landfilled
Our Vision
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is committed to providing high quality
education in the chemical and biochemical sciences for undergraduate and graduate
students, producing research contributions that are recognized nationally and internationally,
and making service contributions at all levels.
Bill Hase Memorial Scholarship
The Bill Hase Memorial Scholarship continues to receive a steady flow of donations,
with 21 new non-anonymous donors having contributed since November, 2021. These come
from around the country and around the world—and of course, from TTU. Click here for more details.
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