News & Events
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Dodgen and Crosby Awards go to top students
April 29, 2011 Yasaman Ghadarghadr(Bross), Candy Mercado, Chris Rich and Bryan Wiggins were all winners at the final Physical Chemistry seminar of the year. Rich and Wiggins won the Dodgen award and the Crosby award respectively for best seminar of the semester. Bross and Mercado were honorable mentions for the awards.
Chair KW Hipps presented certificates to the winners.
Bryan Wiggins is a PhD candidate in Prof. KW Hipps' lab. His seminar titled Organic Solid State Sensors won the Crosby award. Candy Mercado is a PhD candidate in Prof. Jeanne McHale's lab. Her seminar titled Electron and Hole Trap Distribution and Transport in Titanium Dioxide Nanotubes was the honorable mention for the Crosby award. 
picture unavailable Chris Rich is a PhD candidate in Prof. Jeanne McHale's lab. His seminar titled The Effect of Solvent Isotopic Substitution on the Spectroscopic Properties of Hierarchal Porphyrin Aggregates won the Dodgen award. Yasaman Ghadarghadr(Bross) is a PhD candidate in Prof. Aurora Clark's lab. Her seminar titled Origin of Np3+ partitioning in Biphasic Systems was the honorable mention for the Dodgen award. 
The Crosby award is named for Prof. Glenn Crosby, a leading reseacher in Physical Chemistry and Chemistry education. The Dodgen award is named for Dr. Harold Dodgen, Chemistry faculty and first director of the University's nuclear reactor.
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2011 College Awards powned by Chemistry
April 15 2011 The College of Sciences celebrated the end of the school year with an Awards presentation at the Lewis Alumni Center. Chemistry faculty and students were winners of the following awards:
- Kirk Peterson named as the Meyer Distinguished Professor
- Benjamin Friesen, Distinguished Graduate Student Award
- Kirk Peterson, Distinguished Faculty Award
- Scot Wherland, Thomas E. Lutz Teaching Excellence Award
- First Donald S. Matteson Symposium Held September 13th. Follow this link to read more.
- The annual symposium of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the AVS was held the 18-19th of September in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy national scientific user facility, located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. For more information see http://www2.avs.org/chapters/pnw/