News and Highlights

Thursday, 25 February 2010

Chris Bielawski Named to Board of Macromolecules

Professor Chris Bielawski has been named to the Editorial Advisory Board of MACROMOLECULES. The journal focuses on all fundamentals of polymer science, including synthesis, polymerization mechanisms and kinetics, chemical modification, solution/melt/solid-state characteristics, and theory and simulation, as well as surface properties of organic, in...

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Andy Ellington Wins National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship

Andy Ellington  has been awarded a highly prestigious National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship, one of only 11 in the country. The NSSEFF is the Department of Defense’s equivalent of the NIH Pioneer award and comes with a five year grant of more than $500K per year. NSSEFF provides grants to top-tier researchers from U.S.  univ...

Monday, 25 January 2010

President Barack Obama Presents Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers to Christopher Bielawski

On January 13, 2010, President Barack Obama presented the 2009 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Professor Chris Bielawski was among those to receive the award; it is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers...

Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Allen Bard Is Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry

Professor Allen Bard has been invited to become an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Each year the Council of the RSC celebrates excellence in the chemical sciences by inviting a small number of eminent individuals to become Honorary Fellows. Our current 85 Honorary Fellows have each been admitted in recognition of their unique ach...

Friday, 15 January 2010

Undergraduate Research credit hours available

Professor Allen Bard has been invited to become an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Each year the Council of the RSC celebrates excellence in the chemical sciences by inviting a small number of eminent individuals to become Honorary Fellows. Our current 85 Honorary Fellows have each been admitted in recognition of their unique ach...