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Susan Olesik receives EAS Award
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Olesik for being awarded the 2020 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for outstanding achievements in the field of analytical chemistry! This is the top award given by…

Assoc Prof Zac Schultz named 2019 AAAS Fellow
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Zac Schultz on being named a 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. Each year, fellows are elected by their peers who make up…

3 CBC Faculty on Top 100 Power List of Analytical Chemists
Each year, the Analytical Scientist publishes the Power List of the top 100 analytical chemists. Our department has three of the top 100 in the list (Vicki Wysocki, Susan Olesik, and Amanda…

NSF awards $27M to State-of-the-Art Research Instrumentation in Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
More than $27 million from the National Science Foundation will fund two new facilities here in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry! Lead PIs include Rafael Bruschweiler and Robert Baker…

Wu Awarded ACS Akron Section Award
Congratulations to Dr. Yiying Wu who recently received the Akron Section Award from the American Chemical Society! This award honors a scientist or engineer working in any branch of chemistry who…

RajanBabu Awarded ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Congratulations to Dr. T. V. (Babu) RajanBabu who has been awarded the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society! The Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards were established in 1984…
Shiyu Zhang Awarded NSF Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Shiyu Zhang for being awarded his first National Science Foundation grant! This grant will support Dr. Zhang’s project titled “Applying rules of life to catalysis:…

Robert Baker Selected as Young Innovator in NanoEnergy
Please join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in congratulating Dr. Robert Baker for being selected as a Young Innovator in NanoEnergy! These “45 under 45” were selected by peer review…

Hannah Shafaat Featured in JACS Virtual Issue
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat, whose recent work has been selected for the 2019 Journal of the American Chemical Society Young Investigators Virtual Issue. Read the virtual issue here.