Dr. Leslie Lovelace was selected to receive a 2021 College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Teaching Award for Professional Faculty in sciences who provide exceptional experiences to undergraduate students, both within and outside the classroom.
Susan Richardson was selected to receive the 2021 Walter J. Weber Jr. AEESP Frontier in Research Award. This award is in recognition of advancing environmental engineering and science fields through research leadership and pioneering efforts in new and innovative research areas.
Gabrielle Leith was selected as the recipient of the prestigious Dera D. Parkinson Trustee Fellowship. Trustee fellowships are awarded to full-time graduate students who exhibit excellence in graduate study, research, and scholarship.
She received a grant from the South Carolina EPSCoR GEAR of $60,000 for her project entitled "Well-Defined Stimuli-Responsive Materials with Dynamically-Controlled Optoelectronic Behavior: Experimentally-Supported Modeling"
She received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NFS) for a total amount of $458,902 for her project entitled "Synthesis of Hierarchical Materials with a Tunable Photoisomerization Response"
Dr. Wayne Outten & Dr. Chuanbing Tang have been elected fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Outten was honored for distinguished research contributions deciphering the mechanisms for iron sulfur cluster biogenesis, its regulation, and its roles in microbial physiology and stress responses. Dr. Tang's election was for distinguished contributions to the field of polymer chemistry, particularly for sustainable polymers and charged metallopolymers.
Congratulations to Brian Benicewicz who was awarded a grant from BASF New Business GmbH for a total of $111,225 for his project entitled "Evaluation of a New Process for a Durable Proton Conducting PBI Membrane."
Congratulations to Dr. Bencicewicz who was awarded a new grant from the Department of Energy
Dr. Hanno zur Loye, University of South Carolina, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has been appointed to a joint appointment position at Savannah River National Laboratory.
Congratulations to Prof. Hanno zur Loye for Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) award
Dr. Wayne Outten and his collaborators have been awarded an NIH grant.
Mark Berg has received a grant from the National Science Foundation
Congratulations to Dr. Thomas Vogt who was a part of an international team that published a Science Advances research article.
Thomas Vogt and co-Pi Douglas Blom (Chem. E.) and Peter Binev (Math) received a US Army grant "Order in Atom Columns-Imaging Beyond the Virtual Crystal Approximation"
Congratulations to Susan Richardson who was recently invited to do a podcast in the Genius Podcast series.
For her research in iron metabolism, Outten was recently elected a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
His proposal has been selected to receive the DOE ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge award.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 SC Environmental Conference Student Poster Awards
Congratulations to the undergraduate students that received Magellan Scholar Program grants.
Big data and synthetic chemistry joined forces to show a better way to create materials that filter greenhouse gases
Congratulations to James Sitter for being awarded the NDSEG Fellowship from the DoD
Ken Shimizu received a grant from the National Science Foundation
Sophya Garashchuk received a grant from the National Science Foundation
Aaron Vannuci has received an award from the National Science Foundation
Congratulations to the recipients of awards for $60,000