Larry R. Faulkner, President
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Larry R. Faulkner became the 27th president of The University of Texas at Austin in April 1998. Prior to his arrival at UT, he was provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. President Faulkner was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1944. He received a B.S. degree in 1966 from Southern Methodist University and was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1969 from The University of Texas at Austin. His career research has involved areas of electrochemistry and analytical chemistry. He has published more than 120 scientific papers and directed 40 doctoral theses. He also is co-author (with Allen J. Bard) of the prominent text, Electrochemical Methods: Fundamentals and Applications, and is co-inventor (with Peixin He and James Avery) of the cybernetic potentiostat, which has been commercialized by several firms. President Faulkner has received national recognition for his research, including the U.S. Department of Energy Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Materials Chemistry (1986), the American Chemical Society's Award in Analytical Chemistry (1992), and the Charles N. Reilly Award from the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (1998). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow and past president of the Electrochemical Society. As president, Faulkner has outlined six areas in which UT Austin will focus its energy and resources:
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