CBE students have been recognized with numerous awards distributed across the university this spring.

Tasimba Jonga earned the Torchbearer award, the university’s highest student honor, for his senior year at UT.

Senior Tasimba Jonga will move forward into graduate studies as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University.

CBE recognized several students, faculty, and staff with its annual department awards.

Several undergraduate students attended the 2021 AIChE Annual Student Conference and successfully competed in a poster competition and the Chem-E-Car competition.

Senior Tasia Gaddis wrote about her summer studying abroad in Athens, Greece, and shared photos of the Parthenon and the Temple of Poseidon.

Senior Research Associate Gabriel Goenaga won a Faculty Research Mentor Award and Kelsey Uselton won an OURF Bronze Award and second place in the research category at EURēCA.

Doctoral candidate David Dooley’s research is aimed at preventing antimicrobial resistance using CRISPR/Cas technology.

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering recognized several faculty, staff, students, and alumni with its annual awards.

James Buchanan, Marie Franzen, and Ben Koester received UT’s Volunteer of Distinction Awards.