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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.

Hummon Selected as PECASE Scholar
Congratulations to Amanda Hummon who has been selected as a PECASE Scholar! Dr. Hummon was nominated for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers three years ago while at…

Badu-Tawiah Awarded NSF Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Badu-Tawiah for being awarded his first National Science Foundation grant! This grant will support Dr. Badu-Tawiah’s project titled “High-Performance Panoptic Mass…