Dr. Robbyn Anand earns two meritous awards: NSF Career Award and the Cottrell Scholar from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
Anand is one of 24 receipents of the 2019 Cottrell Scholar Awards. These Awards provide $100,000 to each recipient identified as a leader in integrating science teaching and research at a top U.S. research university or a primarily undergraduate institution.
These are both very important awards for young faculty, the department is pleased that Anand is being recognized for her work.
Jared Anderson has been named editor for the Journal of Chromatography A, an Elsevier publication. He will be one of eight members of the journal’s editorial board, and only one of two Americans to hold the position.
A federal research project involving Ames Lab scientists, and chemistry professor, Aaron Sadow, is looking for ways to "upcycle" single-use plastics, turning them into more valuable chemicals to make recovery worthwhile.
Congratulations to the Zaikina Group, on your feature in the ACS Virtual Issue, "Emerging Investigators in Solid-State Inorganic Chemistry."
The issue showcases recently published research papers from Inorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Materials, and The Journal of the American Chemical Society to demonstrate the creativity, range, and areas of interest of selected up-and-coming researchers in this field who have started their independent laboratories in the past five to eight years.
Check out the Editorial or the recent paper on hydride route toward new antimonides.
One of the three students selected for the 2019 calendar is our very own Ihssan Ait-Boucherbil, senior in chemistry. The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women in Politics honored four women in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences by selecting them to be a part of the thirteenth annual Women Impacting ISU calendar in 2019.
The 2019 calendar will be officially unveiled during a reception recognizing the 12 honorees on Wednesday, Jan. 16, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Sun Room/South Ballroom of the Memorial Union. The half-hour program will begin at 4 p.m. After the program, copies of the calendar will be distributed for free. The reception is free and open to the public.
Javier Vela is one of seven researchers at Iowa State University being recognized by The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), for his work.
The goal of Vela’s research is to design powerful and widely applicable synthetic strategies – across molecular, nano, and bulk scales – that enable the effective incorporation of new materials into energy conversion and catalytic technologies. He has also helped develop a more diverse and inclusive scientific workforce by working with young scientists and engineers, from high school students to postdoctoral scholars.
The new class of AAAS fellows will be announced in the Nov. 29 issue of the journal Science.
The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of Science and other journals. The association was founded in 1848 and includes nearly 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million people.
Congratulations to Ann Lii-Rosales who was given the Nellie Yeoh Whetton Award, a nationally competitive award with the American Vacuum Society, which required that she give a private presentation to its awards committee
Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate scientist Dr. Benjamin Prince was recognized as an AFRL Science and Engineering Early Career Award winner. Each ECA award winner receives a three-year grant of $100,000 per year in support of their research. (Courtesy photo)
Prince became an AFRL government research chemist in the Space Vehicles Directorate in 2011 after a two-year stint as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the directorate. He greatly expanded the scope of the Space Chemistry Laboratory at Kirtland to enable work on space situational awareness, fundamental high-energy physics, next-generation spacecraft propulsion, atmospheric sensing technologies, and hypersonics, all areas of exceptionally high interest to the Air Force. Prince has made outstanding technical contributions to defining fundamental physics associated with fielding future space propulsion systems. He has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry form Iowa State University and was the Air Force nominee to the prestigious 2018 Arthur S. Flemming Award for Basic Science.
Congratulations Dr. Benjamin Prince!
Chemistry is one of six departments that made all three top 10 lists for graduate enrollment.
Shannon Lee and Bryan Owens-Baird, two graduate students in Kirill Kovnir's Group have been awarded fellowships from the Iowa Space Grant Consortium.
This is the second time Lee has been awarded the fellowship, her first award was for enerygy applications. Tlhis is the first award for Owens-Baird. A big congratulations to both of them for their work.
The Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC) will award fellowships to support outstanding graduate students pursuing research opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines that support the mission of NASA.
Congratulations to Kirill Kovnir as he joins the Editorial Board of Spring Nature Applied Sciences Journal.
Congratulations to Javier Vela, who was recently invited to join the editorial board of ACS Energy Letters!
Congratulations to Robbyn Anand who was named as part of the Top 40 Under 40 List in the Analytical Scientist.
Anand also gave a great talk last week as part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.
Congratulations to Pat Thiel, who was elected to the board of the American Vacuum Society (AVS).
As a professional Society, AVS supports networking among academic, industrial, government, and consulting professionals involved in a variety of disciplines related to materials, interfaces, and processing.
