The Department of Chemistry's award ceremony was held on Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Department chair William Jenks was the master of ceremonies and Professor Theresa Windus assisted. Both the faculty and graduate students were recognized for the awards they received in 2011-2012. 

Photo Gallery of the 2011-2012 Chemistry Graduate Student Awards

2011-2012 Faculty Awards

Thomas Barton
ACS President-Elect Finalist

Gregory Geoffroy
CASE District 6, Chief Executive Leader of the Year
Tau Kappa Epsilon Circle of Excellence Award

Tom Holme
ACS Fellow

Mei Hong
The Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award, Protein Society Award, sponsored by Merck Research Laboratory

Sam Houk
ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis

Malika Jeffries-EL
ACS Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award
LAS Diversity Award

George Kraus
ISU 25 Year Club

Gordon Miller
ISU Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research

Jacob Petrich
LAS Achievement in Intellectual Property Award

Nicola Pohl
Named Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering

Aaron Sadow
Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Science
LAS Early Achievement in Research Award
Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

Patricia Thiel
Named Fellow of the Materials Research Society
Invited to attend the Novel Prize Ceremony by the Nobel Prize Committee in Chemistry and Physics
John D. Corbett Professor

Brian Trewyn
Ames Laboratory Inventor Incentive Award

Javier Vela
Named to Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology Magazine’s “40 under 40” list of top young engineers

Arthur Winter
Wilkinson Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching

Theresa Windus
Wilkinson Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching