Professor Matthew Balhoff has been selected to succeed Professor Jon E. Olson as chair of the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. Dr. Balhoff begins his four-year term this month.
UT PGE Tops QS World Rankings for Petroleum Engineering
The Hildebrand Department ranked first in the 2023 World University Rankings by Subject compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the leading provider of analytics to the global higher education sector.
Professor Kamy Sepehrnoori and Assistant Professor Wen Song have won international awards from the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE).
Beloved UT PGE lab and building manager Glen Baum reflects on his three decades in Texas Engineering — what’s changed, what hasn’t and why he’s thankful for burnt orange.
Ravikumar Awarded $13 Million for Methane Mitigation Projects
Research Associate Professor Arvind Ravikumar has been awarded $13 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and partner groups for three projects focused on methane emissions mitigation.
PhD students Ibrahim Gomaa, Keivan Khaleghi and Dongyoung Yoon won the 2023 Chevron National Engineering Week Competition to address the role of the petroleum industry in the energy transition.
Associate Professor Michael Pyrcz — who has been promoted to full professor effective September 2023 — will be the 2024 International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) Distinguished Lecturer.
Banales Wins President’s and Cockrell School Staff Awards
Student Program Coordinator Gabby Banales, who organizes UT PGE initiatives like the First-Year Fall Retreat and PEN Pals mentor program, has won a 2023 President’s Outstanding Staff Award and Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award.
Morales and Zhu Receive Inaugural Chevron Energy Graduate Fellowships
Misael Morales and Yuanrui Zhu have been selected as part of the inaugural cohort of Chevron Energy Graduate Fellowship Awardees. Awards will be presented annually to outstanding graduate students working on energy systems research.
Associate Professor Hugh Daigle spent 33 days at sea this summer researching “Neogene History of Mass Transport Deposits Offshore North Carolina” as part of a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Foster and Ravikumar Honored With SPE Regional Awards
Associate Professor John Foster and Research Associate Professor Arvind Ravikumar were honored for their work in data analytics and sustainability, respectively, by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Southwestern North America Region in May.
