A Great Summer for Chemistry Research Grant Success

Despite the current challenging environment in obtaining critical external research funding, we are very happy for our faculty who have recently received new grants to support their research programs. Many of these are multi-year awards and support numerous students in our degree programs. These new research grants collectively total $2.3M.

Jordan Harshman, 10/1/2026 start, National Science Foundation (NSF), Collaborative Research: Enhancing STEM Instructor Reflection by Automatically Detecting Instructional Practices 

Ed Gillan, 9/1/2026 start, NSF, Rapid, Flexible Growth of Crystalline Earth-Abundant Metal Borides for Molecule-Surface Investigations Relevant to Electrocatalytic Hydrogen and Nitrogen Reduction Reactions

Scott Daly, 8/1/2026 start, Department of Energy, Structural and Spectroscopic Investigations of Transuranium-Phosphine Bonding

Renée Cole, 10/1/2026 start, NSF, Conference: Promoting Cross-institutional Evidence-based Practices Implementation and Assessment to Enhance Student Outcomes Through a Meeting of the SCIENCE Collaborative

Scott Daly and Bess Vlaisavljevich, 8/1/2026 start, NSF, Metal-Metal Multiple Bonded Complexes with Modular Redox Active Ligands

Ed Gillan, 7/1/2026 start, ACS-PRF, Investigation of Carbon Dioxide Surface Reactions on Crystalline Metal Phosphide Particles to Assess Phosphorus Impact on CO2 Electroreduction

You can also check out the CLAS collegiate grants page (https://resource.clas.uiowa.edu/grant-support-office/recent-research-grant-awards) for more updates on our department’s funding successes!