COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 12, 2008 – Vice Chancellor and Dean of Engineering G. Kemble Bennett has appointed Victor M. Ugaz holder of the Kenneth R. Hall Professorship in Chemical Engineering. Ugaz is assistant professor and associate head for undergraduate programs in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Established in 2002 by the Gas Processors Suppliers Association, the professorship is named in honor of Hall, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering and associate director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. From 2002-2006 Hall served as head of the chemical engineering department.
Ugaz joined the Texas A&M Engineering faculty in January 2003. His research focuses on harnessing the unique characteristics of transport and flow at the microscale to enable development of advanced miniaturized chemical and biochemical analysis technologies. Ugaz earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
Earlier this month, Ugaz was named one of only two chemical engineering professors in the nation to receive the prestigious Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
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