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Research Corporation for Science Advancement has named Davit Potoyan as one of 25 outstanding teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2021 Cottrell Scholar Awards.

Professor Aaron Sadow’s project is one of 12 to receive funding in 2020 as part of the DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, designed to help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks...

Peter Dorhout arrived on campus Jan.

Congratulations to Julia Zaikina, the 2021 receipent of the Margaret C. Etter Early Career Award.

Dr. Tom Holme is quoted in Volume 98, Issue 48 of C&E News with his predictions for chemistry education in 2021.

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The winter issue of VISIONS magazine, available quarterly to members of the ISU Alumni Association, mentions Dr. Pat Thiel as the department honors her with named spaces.

Harnessing the power of electrochemistry and separation science, Assistant Professor Robbyn Anand steps into the global battle against COVID-19.

On Wednesday, December 9, at 7:00pm EST, AAAS will be hosting a panel discussion the history, present-day challenges, and fututre opportunities surrounding Title IX in the U.S. academic research enterprise.

University Professor Javier Vela joins Editorial Advisory Board of Chemistry of Materials. https://pubs.acs.org/journal/cmatex

Kirill Kovnir has accepted an invitation to join the International Advisory Board of the one of the oldest inorganic journal, ZAAC – Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, founded in 1892. https://onlinelibrary.wile

Kirill Kovnir has been named among 71  reviewers who have made especially notable contributions to Inorganic Chemistry journal.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02699

The Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) wrote an article that prominently features Prof. Aaron Sadow. Sadow is the director of an ambitious new research center focused on plastic waste upcycling.

Chemistry faculty member Javier Vela and three Iowa State chemistry students took part in the LatinXChem conference which was held Sept. 7- 25.

Gourab Bhaskar, a PhD candidate in the Zaikina group, was featured in the video about the 22nd National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering  (https://neutrons.ornl.gov/nxs) organized by US-DOE Argonne National Laboratory and US-D

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that President Wendy Wintersteen approved the formal naming of the North and South lobby areas of Hach Hall as the Patricia A Thiel of Hach Hall.

Associate Teaching Professor, Sarah Pistolesi is being recognized by the Provost for all the work she did and led making introductory laboratory courses viable when we went online. Making the best of 2020 took many hands at the university fro

Our condolences to the family of Dr. Patricia (Pat) Thiel, who passed away this last Monday, September 7. She was beloved by many and will be sorely missed.

The Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) has released a special virtual issue based on outstanding work by young investigators in 2019.