UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty Shannon Boettcher is among 13 U.S. scientists to win a 2015 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. The selection, announced by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, recognizes young faculty in the chemical sciences.
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UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty Julie Haack is among the authors of the work selected as “Best Paper” at the 2015 Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference held in Denver, Colorado, April 28 – May 1, 2015.
The paper, titled “Insider-Driven Change in Fields of Practice: Exploring the Case of Green Chemistry,” is a collaboration between chemistry and the UO business school. Authors include Jennifer A Howard-Grenville (UO Business), Julie Haack (UO Chemistry), Doug Young (UO PhD Alum, now at LCC), Andrew Earle, and Andrew Nelson (UO Business). It was presented at the conference by Andrew Nelson.
Abstract: Insiders can be effective at mobilizing to bring about change in organizations or professions, yet we know little about how they work to influence change in a less structured field of work practice. Drawing on interview, observational, and archival data, we inductively investigate the emergence and growth of “green chemistry,” an effort within the chemical sciences to improve the health, safety, and environmental impacts of chemicals through changing practices associated with chemical synthesis and design. We find that advocates mobilized other chemists through a multivocal discourse and flexible principles, as opposed to a cohesive resonant frame. A pluralistic community resulted, which demanded ongoing efforts to both check and sustain this pluralism. The trajectory of green chemistry suggests that insiders can leverage the very elements that structure a field – shared expertise and work practices – in service of change, but that these same elements are threatened by such change. We discuss implications for theory on insider- driven change in fields of practice, the strategic use of multivocality, and the challenges of social change among those bound by common expertise, including members of occupations.
UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty Marina Guenza, and Allen Malony, a professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, have been selected for a 2015 UO Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives (I3) award for their proposal to create a virtual laboratory for the design and testing of novel polymeric materials.
The I3 award program is designed to build capacity and advance the development of large-scale projects and programs that strategically enhance the UO’s research excellence.
I3 awards foster collaborative partnerships across UO departments and colleges by providing a year of financial support for new interdisciplinary research in areas that are likely to generate extramural funding.
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The Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation has to announce the recipients of the 2015 UO Research Excellence Awards. The awards celebrate the significant impact and reach of UO researchers and will be officially recognized at an awards ceremony this spring.
The SupraSensor Technologies team, led by Darren Johnson and Mike Haley, was selected for an Innovation and Impact Award. The award is granted to individuals or teams for outstanding entrepreneurial activity.
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University of Oregon juniors Kyla Martichuski and John Gillies have been named 2015 Goldwater Scholars, a prestigious national award that recognizes undergraduates for their research work in mathematics, science and engineering.
Gillies, from Junction City, is a biochemistry major with a minor in business administration whose research looks at protein interaction with single-strand DNA. He works in Andrew Marcus’ lab in the Institute of Molecular Biology.
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University of Oregon chemist Geri Richmond is among the profiles of the state’s most notable women presented in the just-published issue of 1859 magazine.
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A research paper that emerged from a partnership between University of Oregon chemist James E. Hutchison and Sony was the most-accessed paper in 2014 in the monthly journal ACS Nano.
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The Oregonian covers our recent NSF Career Award and Sloan Foundation Fellowship recipients – read more at: http://bit.ly/17EgJ3P
Three UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty – Shannon Boettcher, Michael Pluth, and Michael Harms – have been named 2015 Sloan Research Fellows. The fellowships, which provide $50,000 over two years, honor early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars in their fields.
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UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty George Nazin is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award. The awards represent the NSF’s most-prestigious recognition of top-performing young scientists in the early stages of their faculty careers. Professor Nazin will use the funds from the award to expand his atomic-scale, real-time exploration of the physical and chemical properties of carbon nanotube-based materials.
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