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  • Prof. Ed Gillan

    Aug 15, 2023

    Ed Gillan was promoted to Full Professor in May 2023. He has been with the University of Iowa Department of Chemistry since 1997 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003. Professor Gillan's most recent honors and awards include: University of Iowa Faculty Senate Vice...
  • Dr. Korey Carter

    Aug 15, 2023

    Assistant Professor Korey Carter's U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career proposal titled, "Design of Molecular Spin Qubits Featuring Clock Transitions via Encapsulation of f-Elements in Polyoxometalates" was officially selected for funding. The DOE announced the selection...
  • Dr. Renee Cole

    Aug 15, 2023

    Dr. Renée Cole has been awarded the James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry (https://www.nesacs.org/award/james-flack-norris-award/) with two of her collaborators, Dr. Susanne Ruder...
  • Aug 11, 2023

    Led by Department of Chemistry lecturer Adam Brummett and Director of the Office of Sustainability and the Environment Stratis Giannakouros, Iowa STEM students recently visited various locations in France, Switzerland, and Germany to experience the applications of sustainable chemistry on a global...
  • Johna Leddy

    Jun 27, 2023

    Iowa Energy Center has awarded Johna Leddy an Iowa Energy Center Grant in the amount of $417,137 for the project titled, "Electrical Energy from Ethanol." This grant award will be administered by the Iowa Economic Development Authority.  The Iowa Energy Center Grant...
  • Scott Daly

    Jun 27, 2023

    With the support of the Chemical Synthesis program in the Division of Chemistry and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), Scott Daly of the University of Iowa and Jason Keith of Colgate University received a $528,550 grant to study metal complexes that enable...
  • Florence Williams

    Jun 15, 2023

    Florence Williams was awarded the NSF CAREER $650,000 grant, a prestigious early-career scholar funding mechanism, for her work in Chemoselective Functionalization of Strong C-O, C-F and C-H Bonds Using Boron Chemistry With the support of the Chemical Synthesis Program in the...
  • Jun 15, 2023

    CLAS staff member and chemistry glassblower receives prestigious award Benjamin Revis, scientific glassblower in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded the 2023 Helmut E. Drechsel Award....
  • Professor Tori Forbes receives honor

    Oct 21, 2022

    Professor Tori Forbes of the Department of Chemistry was reconginzed with the College or Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) Collegiate Scholar Award for the 2021-22 academic year. From the CLAS website: "The Collegiate Scholar award was inaugurated in 2008 to recognize mid-career faculty...
  • grad students carbon capture project

    Oct 17, 2022

    Professor Tori Forbes and Dr. Sara E. Mason were awarded funds to support “Direct Air Carbon Dioxide Separation Using a Uranyl Superoxide Catalyst” as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s highly competitive...
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