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2000 - Departmental News and Highlights
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 Three Chemistry Department faculty have been recognized for their teaching excellence
in Who's Who Among America's Teachers 2000. Those recognized are Bruce Bursten
, Robert S. Coleman, and Gideon
A. Fraenkel.
The NSF Division of Chemistry provided $5.8M
to establish an Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute
(EMSI)
at Ohio State. The Ohio state EMSI, which was the only program
funded by NSF this year, will be directed by
Professor Patrick Hatcher
of the Department of Chemistry.
(See
NSF Press Release)
Professor Chan
has received the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
Professor Platz
was one of 10 recipients of the 2001 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the
American Chemical Society.
The Cope Scholar Award was established by ACS to
recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry. Professor Platz received
the award at the National ACS Meeting in San Francisco in March (Article from
OnCampus).
Professor Epstein
named Editor-in-Chief of the journal Synthetic Metals, the leading journal on conducting polymers and synthetic metals.
Professor Dalbey is lead author on a paper
published in Nature (News Rele
ase).
Professor Allen was featured on the cover of June 19, 2000 issue of Chemical & Engineering News.
Chemistry received 2000 OSU Departmental Teaching Excellence Award. (Article from OnCampus)
John Herrington rece
ived the OSU Distinguished Staff Award.
Professor
Hart received the 2000 ACS Columbus Section Award.
Professor Mathews received the Arts and Scie
nces Rosalene Sedgwick Faculty Service Award.
Professor Olesik received the 2000 Outstandin
g Woman of Science Award of the American Women in Science in Central Ohio.
Professor Dutta received the 2000 OSU Distingu
ished Scholar Award. (Article from OnCampus
)
Professor Berliner received the 2000 Silver
Medal for Biology/Medicine of the
International EPR Society.
Professor McCreery has received the 2000 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Electrochemistry.
Professor Bursten has been elected Chair-Ele
ct (2000) and Chair (2001) of the American Chemical Society Divi
sion of Inorganic Chemistry.
Professor Lowary won The 1999 Presidential Ea
rly Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). (Article from OnCampus)
Professor Gustafson received th
e John T. and Ruth Weimer Mount Award.
Professor Epstein received the OSU Technolog
y Partnership Award.
C. Bradley Moore joined OSU as Vice President of Research on April 1, 2000.
New, state-of-the-art mass spectrometric facilities for the Campus Chemical Instrumentation Center as part of the Hayes Investment Trust.
Professor Coleman: Chemical Probe Reveals Ultrafast Movements of DNA
Proteins.
Professor Shore pondered election to Bavaria
n Academy (from onCampus).<
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See the Chemistry Student Recruiting Weekend 2000 Schedule of Events.
Read about the Dedication of the Major Robert H. L
awrence, Jr. Lecture Hall, January 2000.
The Chemistry Department was one of four awarded funding as part of the "Selective Investment" initiative at OSU.
Ahmed Zewail, recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry, gave the
1999 Evans Lecture.
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