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WSU College of Sciences Award Winners
Congratulations to our colleagues who won 2009 awards in the following categories:
- Distinguished Faculty Award: Professor Ken Nash
- Faculty Advising Excellence Award: Clinical Assistant Professor Jeremy Lessmann
- Young Faculty Performance Award: Assistant Professor Ming Xian
Other News
- Congratulations again to Professor Aurora Clark who was awarded $200,00 from the National Science Foundation over two years to study the “Multiscale chemistry of U, Np, and Pu fission products in acidic and basic media” and $600,000 from the Department of Energy over three years to study the “Origin of Actinide Ion Partitioning in Biphasic Systems.”
- Congratulations to Professor of Chemistry and Physics Choong-Shik Yoo, who was recently awarded four grants, which includes an award of $450,000 from the National Science Foundation over three years to explore ““Mbar Chemistry: Novel State of Matter at Extreme Conditions;” an award of $510,000 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency over three years to explore “Novel Functional Extended Solids at Extreme Conditions; an award of $100,000 from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund over two years to explore “High-pressure Kinetic Studies of Formation, Phase Transition and Crystal Growth of Methane Hydrates in Dynamic-DAC;” and the second of a five year contract from Department of Homeland Security for $375,000 per year to continue research into “Chemical and Shock Mitigation”
- C&E News has selected Professor Ming Xian's recent JACS communication for its Science and Technology Concentrates. Read more.
- Professor Herb Hill received the Beynon Award for the outstanding paper published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (RCM) during the previous two years
- Professor Aurora Clark received a Hewlett-Packard Junior Faculty award from the Comp Division at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Salt Lake City, March 22-26. Professor Clark also was awarded an ACS Dreyfus/Progress Lectureship that will fund travel to present her research at a prestigious university of her choosing.
Upcoming Seminars
Berry Phase Mediated Topological Transport of Photons, Electrons and Cold Atoms
Prof. Chuanwei Zhang, Dept. of Physics, Washington State University
Seminar Location: Fulmer 438; Seminar Time: Mon Nov 30 16:10
Abstract Link