News

Beatrise Berzina, a research scientist in the Anand group, has been selected as one of the three winners of this year's NATO Science & Technology Organization Women & Girls in Science (WGS25) Challenge!

Anna and Edward Yeung have established two new fellowships to recruit the very best graduate students to the Department of Chemistry.

Joyce Pham graduated from Iowa State University in 2018 with her Ph.D. from the Miller Group. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University, San Bernardino. 

Sithmi Hewage and Mason Koeritz have been inducted into the Cardinal Key Society, one of ISU’s top honor societies. Selection is based upon the four cardinal virtues of scholarship, leadership, service, and character.

We are very excited to announce that Kathy Burke, Kirill Kovnir, and Julia Zaikina have all been honored for outstanding achievements. 

Beatrise Berzina, a research scientist in the Anand group, has been selected as one of 12 finalists for the NATO STO Women & Girls in Science Challenge!  She will be giving a presentation in Brussels, Belgium as part of the competition.

On Wednesday, April 23rd we celebrated the 2025 Graduate Awards Ceremony. Congratulations to all of the recipients! 

To view the photos, click the link: https://iastate.box.com/s/3o1vsm0z0iz76cc4eolx8jutc4a05jrd 

Congratulations to Bradyn Weaver, who has been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Congratulations to Joe Burnett on being a recipient of the 2025 Exemplary Faculty Mentor Award. 

The CELT Exemplary Service Award for Leadership in Advancing Teaching and Learning at ISU is an honorary recognition selected by the CELT Senior Leadership Team.

This award recognizes those with:

Amrit Venkatesh, a former student in the Rossini Group, has accepted a assistant professor position at the University of Virginia. Congratulations Amrit!

Congratulations to Eunhye Choi, Bradyn Weaver, and Sithmi Hewage for being award the Dean's High Impact Award for the Spring 2025 semester. 

A way to start the fall semester strong! In early September, Ernesto Soto from the Kovnir group has published a first-author paper in ACS Journal Chemistry of Materials, featuring supplementary cover art for the issue .

On October 31st, Jacqueline M. Applegate was honored at the 2024 LAS Alumni Award Ceremony. At the ceremony, she received the Department of Chemistry: Outstanding Alumni Award. Jacqueline graduated with a Ph.D.