Professor Fleming Crim has been selected as this year’s winner of the Hilldale Award in the Physical Sciences. The Hilldale Awards are incredibly competitive awards that recognizes excellence in teaching, research, and public service. Only …
News
Danny Fredrickson Receives a US Department of Energy Early Career Award
We are pleased to announce that Danny Fredrickson is the recipient of a US Department of Energy Early Career Award for his proposed work on “Chemical Frustration: A Design for the Discovery of New Complex …
Professor John Tully of Yale University 2010-11 Hirschfelder Winner
We are delighted to announce that John Tully, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, is the winner of the 2010-11 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry. Prof. Tully has been a member of …
Helen Blackwell Named a Vilas Associate
Please join us in congratulating Professor Helen Blackwell on being named a Vilas Associate! The Vilas Associates Awards are made possible through a gift from the Vilas Trust. The awards are open to Assistant, Associate …
Mahesh Mahanthappa Wins Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award
Please join us in congratulating our very own Professor Mahesh Mahanthappa on winning the Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award! The Steiger Award is a very distinguished campus-level teaching award. As you can imagine, this …
Professor Jim Skinner Awarded a WARF Named Professorship
Please join us in congratulating Jim Skinner on being awarded a WARF Named Professorship! The WARF Named Professorships are awarded to the university’s most outstanding senior faculty. They are so named because they allow the …
Professor Qiang Cui Awarded an H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship
Please join us in congratulating Qiang Cui on recieving an H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship! The Romnes Awards are given by the Graduate School to recognize the university’s most outstanding recently tenured faculty. The award …
Professors Burstyn, Weinhold & Weisshaar Elected as AAAS Fellows
We’re pleased to announce that Professors Judith Burstyn, Frank Weinhold, and Jim Weisshaar have all been elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This is a great honor bestowed …
NSF Funding of The Catalysis Center Approved
We’re delighted to announce that NSF has recommended funding for our CRIF-MU (Chemistry Resesarch Instrumentation and Facilities – Multi-User) Proposal for a new “Shared High Pressure Chemistry and Catalysis Facility” (also know as “The Catalysis …
Professor Mahesh Mananthappa Receives the James W. Taylor Award
Once per year we give out the James W. Taylor Award for Excellence in Teaching to one of our most outstanding Chemistry Department faculty or staff members. We’re pleased to announce that Mahesh Mahanthappa will …