Congratulations to Ethan Older (Li's group)
He won the Thermo Fisher Scientific award at the Graduate Symposium Competition for the Senior Graduate Student Achievement Awards.
Congratulations to James Sitter (Vannucci's Group)
He won the Hiram and Lawanda Allen award at the Graduate Symposium Competition for the Senior Graduate Student Achievement Awards.
Congratulations to Kexun Chen (H. Wang Group)
He won the Guy F. Lipscomb award at the Graduate Symposium Competition for the Senior Graduate Student Achievement Awards.
Congratulations to Donna Chen
She received a grant from the Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, for a total amount of $3,150,000 for her project entitled, "Design of New Catalysts for the Generation of Clean H2 from Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers: Dehydrogenation of Methylcyclohexane on Bimetallic Catalysts."
Congratulations to Morgan Stefik
He received a grant from the Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences for a total amount of $2,550,000 for his project entitled, "Understanding the Role of Defects to Accelerate Wadsley-Roth Niobates for Long Duration Energy Storage”
Congratulations to Chuanbing Tang
Chuanbing Tang received a Special Creativity Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a two year total amount of $264,00.00 for his project entitled "General Strategies Toward Mechanically Robust Biobased Polymers and Composites."
Congratulations to Caroline Rohlfing
Caroline Rohlfing (advised by Brian Benicewicz) won a third place award at the 2021 National Graduate Research Polymer Conference poster competition.
Congratulations to Susan Richardson
Susan Richardson received an award from the National Science Foundation for a total amount of $420,000 for her project entitled "Collaborative Proposal: Treatment of Cyanotoxins by UV/Chlorine: Optimizing Removal While Developing Strategies to Minimize Disinfection Byproducts and Toxicity"
Congratulations to Mackenzie Wenczkowski
Congratulations to Mackenzie Wenczkowski on receiving the Women in Defense - Palmetto Chapter Scholarship for a total amount of $2500.00
Congratulations to Hui Wang
He received a grant from Clene Nanomedicine Inc. for a total amount of $75,767 for his project entitled "Characterization of the Physiochemical and Catalytic Properties of CNM-Au8"
Congratulations to Qian Wang
He received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a total amount of $75,000 for his project entitled "EAGER: Novel approaches to study green leaf volatile perception
Undergraduate Student Achievements Honored
Each year, undergraduate students are recognized for their achievements. The following students received Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Undergraduate Awards during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Congratulations to Linda Shimizu
She received the 2021 SC Governors Award in Scientific Awareness. This award recognizes her extensive outreach, public awareness, and mentoring efforts.
Congratulations to Logan Breton
He was the first place winner in the 2021 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards. Logan will present his paper at the Innovations Awards Session of the ANS Winter Meeting in Washington, DC, November 30 - December 4, 2021.
Congratulations to Dr. Leslie Lovelace
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.
Congratulations to Susan Richardson
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.
Congratulations to Gabrielle Leith
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.
Congratulations to Christopher Sutton
He received a grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) for a total amount of $1,200,000 with a subaward of $320,000 for his project entitled "Accelerated Selection of Optimal Perovskite Alloys for Solar PV Using a Combined Quantum and Machine Learning Hierarchical Approach"
Congratulations to Christopher Sutton
He received a grant from the South Carolina EPSCoR Grants for Exploratory Academic Research (GEAR) Program in the amount of $59,938 for his project entitled "Data Driven Optimization of the Electrolyte Composition for Improving Cycling Stability in Rechargeable Li-biased Batteries
Congratulations to Natalia Shustova
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"
Congratulations to Natalia Shustova
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"
SPARC Recipients Awarded
Congratulations to the students who had their research grants funded
Congratulations to Chuanbing Tang & Wayne Outten
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
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 Brian Benicewicz
Congratulations to Dr. Bencicewicz who was awarded a new grant from the Department of Energy