During Honor’s week festivities, the department announced the recipients of departmental awards.
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Dr. Allred Promotion Announced
Provost Dalton has announced that Dr. Jared Allred will be promoted to associate professor with tenure effective for the 2023-2024 academic year. Dr. Allred’s research focuses on discovery and characterization of new inorganic materials with functional properties. These materials have applications in magnetics and as multiferroic materials. Dr. Allred’s research has been supported by a prestigious Department of Energy CAREER award.
Dr. Atwood recieves ACS award in Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Emeritus Jerry Atwood, who served as a chemistry faculty member at UA from 1968 to 1994, has received the 2023 ACS award in Inorganic Chemistry. Dr. Atwood is recognized for extending the transformative principles of inorganic chemistry to the disparate fields of separation science, host-guest chemistry, and supramolecular chemistry. Dr. Atwood retired from UA and joined the University of Missouri faculty. He retired Missouri as Curator Professor Emeritus.
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Congratulations winter 2022 graduates
The department congratulates the following students who received degrees during the Winter 2022 Commencement ceremony.
Grant awarded for HBCU bridge program
Dr. Shanlin Pan in cooperation with the Graduate School’s Strategic Partnerships Initiative has received a $1 million NSF grant to support an HBCU bridge program. The grant will support the participation of students from Stillman College, Fort Valley State University, and Jackson State University in research and classroom activities at The University of Alabama with the goal of enhancing the competitiveness of students from these HBCU program for graduate studies and careers in STEM fields. UA press release
Dr. Matthew Reichert named ACS Fellow
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Reichert (PhD 2005) who has been named an American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow. ACS Fellows are selected for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession and the Society. Dr. Reichert is Professor and Assistant VP for Research at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Reichert received his PhD under the direction of Dr. Robin Rogers.
Dr. Michael Curry name top 100 innovator
Dr. Michael Curry (PhD 2004) has been named to The Top 100 Magazine’s 2022 list of “Top 100 Innovators & Entrepreneurs.” Dr. Curry is an associate professor in chemistry and materials science and engineering at Tuskegee University and CEO and founder of Eco-Friendly Plastic Materials, LLC. He has been a leader in developing biodegradable materials to replace synthetic polymers. Dr. Curry earned his PhD under the direction of Dr. Shane Street.
Dr. Wenfang Sun Joins Department as Robert Ramsay Chair
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Wenfang Sun to the department as the Robert Ramsay Chair in Chemistry. Dr. Sun comes to UA from North Dakota State University where she was most recently the Walter F. and Verna Gehrts Presidential Professor of Chemistry. She received her B.S. degree in 1990 from Wuhan University, China; and her Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from the Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. After serving as an assistant and then associate […]
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Congratulations Spring Graduates
Congratulations to the students who received degrees during the spring 2022 Commencement ceremonies.
New Members Inducted into GSE Honorary Society
The induction ceremony for the Delta Beta chapter of Gamma Sigma Epsilon (GSE) was held on April 14th, 2022. GSE is a national chemistry honorary society founded in 1920 at Davidson College. The UA chapter was founded in 1924 and has remained continuously active ever since. The UA chapter is the longest continuously active chapter in GSE. Students who have completed 14 hours of chemistry courses, are majors in chemistry or chemical engineering, and have maintained a 3.3 GPA in […]
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