Category: Awards & Honors
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Julia Widom chosen for AHA Career Development Award
The American Heart Association has selected UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty Julia Widom as a recipient of the AHA Career Development Award. The award supports the early careers of highly promising healthcare and academic professionals as they explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and develop their research skills, fostering their future success as a scientist.
The three-year grant will fund Professor Widom’s research using single-molecule fluorescence techniques to study the structure and dynamics of heart-specific long noncoding RNAs linked to disease. Her work will help guide the development of therapies for conditions that induce cardiac stress.
Read more about Professor Widom’s award at https://tinyurl.com/39c244hn
Carl Brozek receives NSF Research Award
UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty Carl Brozek has received an National Science Foundation Division Of Materials Research grant to study the fundamental growth mechanisms of particles based on metal-organic frameworks. His work will help open new frontiers in using metal-organic frameworks for a range of applications including gas separation and catalysis.
Learn more about his award on the NSF website.
Mike Harms selected for Fund for Faculty Excellence Award
Shannon Boettcher among Finalists for 2021 Blavatnik National Awards in Chemistry
Cathy Wong receives Distinguished Teaching Award
Geri Richmond nominated for a top post in US Energy Department
Christopher Hendon named as 2021 Cottrell Scholar
UO Chemsitry and Biochemistry faculty Christopher Hendon has been selceted by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement as one of 25 outstanding teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy to receive the 2021 Cottrell Scholar Awards.
Recipients are chosen through a rigorous peer-review process of applications from top research universities, degree-granting research institutes, and primarily undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada. Each award is $100,000.
The award recognizes Prof. Hendon for his excellence in science education and research in understanding inorganic defects in metal-organic frameworks.
Read more in AroundtheO
Thomas Greenbowe receives Tykeson Teaching Award
Chemistry and Biochemistry Senior Instructor Thomas Greenbowe has been selected as a 2021 recipient of the UO College of Arts and Sciences Tykeson Teaching Awards.
The awards were established in 2015, and are presented annually to one faculty member in each division of the College of Arts and Sciences: the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Recipients are recognized for their excellence in teaching and receive a certificate and $2,500 cash prize.
Dr. Greenbowe has been instrumental in the education of thousands of students at the UO, and has introduced many active learning techniques into our general and introductory chemistry programs. He is a nationally recognized leader in inquiry-based chemistry pedagogy, having previously received the ACS George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education. Over the last nine months, Dr. Greenbowe has worked to dramatically transform traditionally in-person lecture and hands-on laboratory courses into web-based formats, while at the same time preserving his commitment to excellence in pedagogy.