Category: Chemistry

1990 Texas A&M chemistry Ph.D. graduate Carl McAfee is leading an innovative effort through his Kennedale-based company, McAfee Consulting LLC, to turn recycled rubber and scrap plastics into various composite materials poised to make a major impact across economic, environmental and national security sectors.

Congratulations to Texas A&M University's latest National Academy of Sciences member, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Donald Darensbourg — the third Texas A&M chemist to earn the prestigious accolade since 2017.

Texas A&M Science Ph.D. students Priyanga Ganesan '22 and Asim Maity '18 are among 18 selected university-wide to receive 2022 Distinguished Graduate Student Awards recognizing exemplary achievement in teaching or research.

Congratulations to Texas A&M Mathematics' Yvette Hester '89 and Texas A&M Chemistry's Travis McCartney, who have been honored by Texas A&M University and The Association of Former Students with the 2022 President's Meritorious Service Award, Texas A&M's highest recognition for staff.

Harvard University chemist, National Academy of Sciences member, and current Kavli Foundation president Cynthia Friend has been selected to receive the 2022 F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research, presented jointly by Texas A&M Chemistry and the Texas A&M Section of the American Chemical Society to honor the late Texas A&M chemist Albert Cotton.

Texas A&M Science takes great pride in celebrating three of its finest — Gregory Fuller '76, James Lalonde '87 and Carl McAfee '90 — as the college's most recent inductees into its Academy of Distinguished Former Students.

Inspired by his passion for science and entrepreneurship, Texas A&M chemistry graduate and 2002 Academy of Distinguished Former Students honoree Dr. Jan Troup '74 established the world's first company to offer commercial X-ray diffraction services. Now, he's creating a planned gift to support innovative students and faculty in Texas A&M Science.

Congratulations to 2001 Texas A&M chemistry Ph.D. graduate and new faculty member Lane Baker, who has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Dr. Carl D. McAfee '90 Endowed Chair in Analytical Chemistry at Texas A&M.

Texas A&M chemist Matthew Sheldon is one of four inaugural recipients of the Early Career Award in Nanophotonics recognizing early stage researchers for their work that has advanced the world's fundamental understanding of photonics.

Texas A&M chemist Andy Thomas has been appointed as an inaugural member of Thieme Chemistry's Science of Synthesis Early Career Advisory Board intended to help promote young talented chemists and provide opportunities to network with internationally renowned chemists.

On Jan. 8, Texas A&M served as the host site for judging for the eighth annual U.S. Crystal Growing Competition, a national contest that challenges teams of K-12 students and educators to test their scientific abilities in determining who can grow the biggest, most beautiful crystals while experiencing a bit of the beauty and symmetry intrinsic to the field of chemistry.

Texas A&M chemist James Batteas is among 12 Texas A&M System faculty members honored with the 2020-2021 Regents Professor Award recognizing exemplary contributions to the A&M System and people of Texas.

Congratulations to Texas A&M chemist Sarbajit Banerjee, who has been selected by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas to receive the 2022 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science, one of four such annual awards celebrating rising stars in the Texas research community and their pioneering achievements.

More than 40 years after helping to create a compound now being used to treat peripheral T-cell lymphoma in Japan, Texas A&M Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Ralph Zingaro is set to be recognized for his basic-turned-breakthrough research success by Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp at a December 9 Community of Faculty Retirees Chancellor's Luncheon on the Texas A&M campus.

More than two dozen chemistry majors from Prairie View A&M visited the Texas A&M Department of Chemistry before the Nov. 20 Texas A&M-Prairie View A&M football game for a firsthand look at the chemistry graduate program and related research opportunities in a unique twist on pregame preparation with the potential to unite two chemical research enterprises and create a new pipeline for traditionally underrepresented students interested in achieving a graduate education.