The American Chemical Society has named 49 members as ACS Fellows, one of whom is our very own Dr. Javier Vela. Vela said he is humbled by the recognition and grateful to Dr. Mark Gordon for the kind nomination.
Jared Anderson, professor of chemistry at Iowa State University and faculty scientist at Ames Laboratory, has been named the inaugural holder of the Alice Hudson Professorship in Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Scienc
Link magazine, which will be in both print and digital format, includes an article recogizing the impact of Anderson's research and focuses on the philanthropy by Alice Hudson.
Congratulations to our graduate award winners for this year! This was not an easy decision for the Graduate Awards, Seminar, and Library Committee (GASLC), speaking to the large number of outstanding students we have in the department.
Halyna Mudryk received the LAS Merit Excellence award and Yan Zhao received the LAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research. Congratulations to both on this much deserved recognition from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Robbyn Anand is winner of the 2021 ISU Award for Early Achievement in Research. Tom Holme is 2021 recipient of a Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award.
Congratulations to both on this well deserved recognition.
Aaron Sadow, Ames Laboratory scientist and professor in the Department of Chemistry, leads a research group that has discovered a breakthrough chemical process which converts plastics into fatty alcohols or fatty acids to create biodegradable
Laurice Verlaine Chewouo and Nethmi Hewage, a senior and junior, resepectively, in chemistry were among 60 Iowa State undergraduate students selected to present their research at the 34th annual National
Kira Rahn, PhD candidate in Robbyn Anand's group, was selected by the Division of Analytical Chemistry (DAC) Graduate Fellowship Committee recieve the 2021 ACS DAC Graduate Fellowship.
Research from Zaikina's group is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). The paper is also featured as ACS Editor's choice article.
Iowa State Daily wrote a story about Dr. Sara Pistolesi and her small business producing Lemoncello 50010, with friends. Read the full story in The Daily's Lifestyle section.
Dr. Jared Anderson, the inaugural Alice Hudson Professor in Chemistry, is featured the Iowa State University Foundation's February newsletter, for his work with brewed coffee.
Congratulations to Ernesto Soto, PhD student in the Kovnir Group! He is a recipient of an NSF AGEP (Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) GRS Fellowship.
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...