Category: Awards & Honors
Scott Hansen receives NSF Career Award
UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty Scott Hansen has been selected for the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Career Award.
The award, under the NSF’s Division of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience, will provide funding for the Hansen Lab‘s research into the mechanisms controlling spatial patterning of PIP lipids in eukaryotic cell polarity.
Read more about the award and Professor Hansen’s research in AroundtheO and on the NSF Awards wesbite
Ken Doxsee selected for Excellence in Remote Teaching Award
Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty Ken Doxsee has been selected by the UO Provost’s Office as a recipient of the 2020 Excellence in Remote Teaching Awards.
The awards recognize faculty that transformed their Spring 2020 traditional, face-to-face courses into accessible, engaging, and well-organized remote teaching environments where students built valuable relationships with their instructors and peers.
Professor Doxsee taught CH Organic Chemistry III and HC 209H HC Science last spring.
Peter H. von Hippel to Receive the 2021 Ignacio Tinoco Award
Christopher Hendon selected as finalist for 2020 Dream Chemistry Award
Mike Haley receives George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry
American Chemical Society has selected UO Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty Michael Haley for the the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry. The ACS national award recipients were announced in the August 13th issue of C&EN.
The George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry is awarded to one individual each year in recognition of outstanding, highly original research achievements in hydrocarbon or petroleum chemistry. Professor Haley will be honored at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, March 23, 2021, in conjunction with the ACS 2021 Spring National Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Biochemist Brad Nolen awarded $2.88 million to study the cytoskeleton
Eight UO students receive prestigious NSF graduate fellowship – Six from Chemistry Program
4 PhD Students and 3 Undergrads win NSF GRFP in Chemistry
Four PhD students and three undergraduates in the UO department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have been selected by the National Science Foundation for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP):
The [GRFP] program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. Fellows benefit from a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees (paid to the institution), opportunities for international research and professional development, and the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. institution of graduate education they choose. As the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the GRFP has a long history of selecting recipients who achieve high levels of success in their future academic and professional careers.
Our 2020 recipients:
PhD
Alison Chang
Marc Foster
Khoa Le
James May
Alison Chang
Marc Foster
Khoa Le
James May
Undergraduates
Madi Scott
Makenna Pennel
Casey Bisted – 2019 grad, now in PhD program at UW
Madi Scott
Makenna Pennel
Casey Bisted
Our Honorable Mentions:
PhD
Julia Fehr
Grace Kuhl
Gabrielle Warren
Undergraduate
Dylan Bardgett
Julia Fehr
Grace Kuhl
Gabrielle Warren
Dylan Bardgett
This is our department’s highest number of GRFP fellowship recipients and honorable mentions to date. Special thanks to faculty members Shannon Boetcher, Mike Pluth, Amanda Cook, Julia Widom, and Chris Hendon for the great job they’ve done teaching the CH 401/601 Fellowship Application Skills workshop.