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Congratulations, David Nagib, for being selected as Ohio State’s first recipient of one of the Blavatnik Foundation’s National Award for Young Scientists.
Many congratulations to David on…
Christine Thomas has been appointed Editor-In-Chief of the major Royal Society of Chemistry Journal that handles publications in the topic of inorganic chemistry, Dalton Transaction.
Her…
Congratulations, Chris Jaroniec, who received the 2026 Distinguished Scholar Award!
Well-deserved!
Congratulations, Ryan Yoder, on receiving the 2026 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching!
Well-deserved!
Congratulations, Shiyu, on receiving the 2025-26 ASC Mid-Career Excellence Award!
Well-deserved!
Congratulations, Dr. Karin Musier-Forsyth, on being selected to receive the 2026 RNA Society / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Distinguished Research Mentor Award!
This is a well…
Congratulations, Davita Watkins, on being selected as one of three senior scientist to receive a 2026 Holland Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. The award is given for…
Congratulations, Kotaro, on receiving the 2025 Innovators in Healthcare and Life Sciences Award from Business First.
The award recognizes individuals and organizations making…
Congratulations, Claudia, on being awarded the 2026 Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry!
Well deserved, Claudia!
For more information, click 2026 ACS National Awards.
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Congratulations, Davita Watkins for being named ACS Fellow!
Davits is fully deserving of this very prestigious recognition – Congratulations!
The Fellow of the American Chemical…
Congratulations, Zac Schultz. for being named the 2025 Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
Fellows Award: This award is established to…
Congratulations, Özlem Doğan Ekici, for receiving the OSU Newark Scholarly Accomplishment Award 2025 and the OSU Newark Scholarly Activity Award, 2025-2028!
Outstanding news, Özlem!
Congratulations, Yiying Wu, for being selected as a 2025 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor!
The title of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor serves to honor full…
Lisa Nguyen received the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer! Outstanding news that continues to highlight the commitment that our department has to teaching.
Amanda Hummon receives the 2024-2025 Outstanding Teaching Award
ASC Outstanding Teaching Award: Recognizes a College of Arts and Sciences faculty member for…
2024-2025 Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award
This award recognizes a faculty member from within The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences whose…
2024-2025 Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award
The Hatcher Award recognizes a full professor in the College of Arts and Sciences who, over a…
Dehua Pei has been named a 2025 Distinguished Scholar!
The Distinguished Scholar Award honors six faculty members who demonstrate scholarly activity, research or creative…
Congratulations, Shiyu Zhang, on receiving the American Chemical Society Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator.
The…
Congratulations, Alex Sokolov, on receiving the 2024 World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) Dirac Medal!
This is one of the most important awards for young…
Congratulations, Claudia Turro, on becoming one of the newest elected members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 120 members and…
Congratulations, Christo Sevov, on being selected for a 2024 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science.
The annual ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the…
Congratulations, Davita Watkins, for receiving the 2024 Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award from Iota Sigma Pi, National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry award!
The award is given…
Congratulations, Christine Thomas, for receiving the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership award!
Fantastic accomplishment!
Congratulations, Dehua Pei, on receiving the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor award!
Well-deserved accomplishment!
Please join me in congratulating Rebecca Ricciardo who is the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award.
Congratulations Rebecca!…
Please join me in congratulating Steffen Lindert who is the recipient of the 2023-24 ACS Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award!
Congratulations, Steffen!
Please join me in congratulating the recipients of the 2023 Dutta CBC Staff Awards:
Gerry Raimann
Rick Spinney
Sophie White
Walter Williams
All…
Congratulations, Dr. Christo Sevov on receiving a 2023 Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award!
To read more, click here.
Congratulations, Dr. Özlem Doğan Ekici on receiving the 2023 OSU Newark Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research (Tenured Category)!
Congratulations, Dr. Özlem Doğan Ekici on receiving the 2023 OSU Newark Teaching Excellence Award (Tenured Category)!
The Brown Science Foundation announced seven recipients of the annual Brown Investigator Award. The award recognizes curiosity-driven basic research in chemistry and physics and supports…
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the election of its new members for 2023, which includes two faculty members from The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences: …
Congratulations, Ted Clark! He is the recipient of the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer.
To learn more about the award click here.
Dehua Pei, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named a Senior Member by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). This award recognizes academic inventors who are…
Congratulations, Alex Sokolov for receiving the prestigious OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry!
The award is presented by the Computers in Chemistry…
Congratulations, Davita Watkins, Vladislav Belyy, and Damien Wilburn on being named the recipients of the ERIK Education Startup Award!
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 Dutta CBC Staff Awards:
Betsy Foran
Irene George
Myung (MJ) Han
Zachary Reaver
These awards - distributed annually to…
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Baker who was named the 2022 Coblentz Award recipient by the Coblentz Society! This award recognizes an outstanding young molecular spectroscopist under the age of 40…
Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Goldberger who has been named a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Fellow by the Humboldt Foundation! This prestigious fellowship entitles him to pursue new…
Dehua Pei, Charles H. Kimberly Professor in Chemistry, received Accelerator Award funding for his project “Cell-Permeable Proteins for Sustainable Organic Agriculture'' from the…
Congratulations to Dr. Tom Magliery, who received the 2022 Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award from the Office of Human Resources! Dr. Magliery was surprised with the award during a recent…
Dr. Rafael Bruschweiler was selected by the students in the OSU Biophysics Program as the winner of the Elizabeth L. Goss Award. This award is presented to a faculty member in…
Dr. Amanda Hummon has received the 2020-2021 ASC Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award from the College of Arts and Sciences! The Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding…
Congratulations to Dr. Christo Sevov and his group members, Taylor Hamby and Matthew Lalama! Their paper on the selective alkyl-aryl coupling, where the reactivity of a nickel catalyst can be…
Congratulations to Senior Lecturer, Rebecca Ricciardo who received the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer! This award honors lecturers for their teaching excellence. Rebecca…
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Baker, who received the 2021-2022 Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award from the College of Arts and Sciences!
The Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes…
Professor Jon Parquette's work and collaboration has recently been noticed by OSU News! Parquette is credited for developing a molecule that other scientists were able to use to bind to insulin's…
Congratulations to Professor Heather Allen, named the 2022 Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, a prestigious national award given by the American Chemical Society. Most (if not all) of the…
Congratulations to Josh Goldberger for being named part of the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Goldberger has been recognized for…
The President's Research Excellence Catalyst Grant Program most recent round of funding has been geared toward cross and interdisciplinary groups.
Congratulations to Anne Co who led a…
Congratulations to Amanda Hummon, Susan Olesik, and Vicki Wysocki for making the 2021 Analytical Scientist Power List for a second year in a row! For the full list and each individiual's feature…
Congratulations to Professor Heather Allen, named the 2022 Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, a prestigious national award given by the American Chemical Society. Most (if not all) of the…
Congratulations to Yiying Wu, Christine Thomas (Wade), and Zac Schultz for being of the 19 projects awarded President’s Research Excellence (PRE) program seed grants.
Next-Generation Liquid…
Faculty of OSU Marion Campus are excited to announce a National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute for research in the role of chromatin remodeling factors in DNA double strand break…
Congratulations to Dr Christo Sevov for being award a Department of Energy Early Career Award for mission critical research!
For more information: https://www.energy.gov/articles…
Congratulations to associate professor, Robert Baker on being given the 2021 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award!
"The Spectroscopy Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award…
Abraham Badu-Tawiah, was one of 21 researchers selected to participate in the first cohort for the Growing Research Opportunities (GRO) Academy. The GRO Academy, aimed at mid-career faculty, is…
CONGRATULATIONS to our Spring 2021 recipients of the John S. Swenton Award for Outstanding Teaching: Chelsea Zoltowski and Joe Fernandez. Both of these graduate students have gone…
Congratulations to associate professor, Abraham Badu-Tawiah for being named the 2021 Early Career Innovator of the Year!
For other 2021 award winners: https://research.osu.edu/news…
Entrada Therapeutics just announced the successful completion of a $116 million Series B financing. Entrada is a privately-held biotechnology company dedicated to transforming the treatment of…
Congratulations to Assistant Professors, Alexander Sokolov and Casey Wade on each receiving a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation!
"The Faculty Early Career Development …
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Zac Schultz on being selected as the recipient of the 2021 Clara Craver Award presented by the Coblentz Society (http://www.coblentz.org/awards/the-craver…
Congratulations to David Nagib, Associate Professor, for being named a 2021 Arthur C. Cope Award winner presented by the American Chemical Society. Award winners are honored for their significant…
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Robert Baker on receiving the 2021 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine. The award is normally…
Associate Professor, Dr. Ted Clark was awarded a Research and Implementation Grant via Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning. His proposal was titled Identifying Barriers to…
Congratulations to Professor Patrick Woodward, named in American Chemical Society's 2020 Class of Fellows! This award celebrates outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the…
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Dr. Josh Goldberger. He received the 2019-20 ASC Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award. This award is to recognize outstanding performance in all three areas…
Congratulations to Dr. Karin Musier-Forsyth who received (with Mike Ibba) the 2019-20 Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award! The Office of Human Resources and the Senate Diversity Committee annually…
Congratulations to Dr. Jon Parquette who is the recipient of the 2019-20 Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award! This award recognizes an Arts and Sciences professor who has…
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Olesik, one of three professors to be named distinguished University Professor for 2020! The distinction is the highest faculty honor at Ohio State and is given on a…
David Nagib, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded the 2020 ACC Lilly Grant. This is an unsolicited award in support of Nagib’s…
Our own department chair, Claudia Turro, has been recognized with the 2020 Outstanding Alumni Award from the Michigan State University College of Natural Science. Congratulations Claudia and thank…
Congratulations to Robert Baker, an assistant professor in the areas of physical and analytical chemistry for being a recipient of the 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award!
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Dmitri Kudryashov, an associate professor in CBC is one of six faculty across the university receiving funding towards COVID-19 research. He and his team are exploring if defensins are able to…
Congratulations to Venkat Gopalan who was selected by the College of Arts and Sciences Student Council to receive the 2019 – 2020 Outstanding Teaching Award. This award is particularly notable…
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Baker who has been selected to receive the 2020 Journal of Physical Chemistry C Lectureship Award from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical…
Please join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in congratulating Dr. Amanda Hummon for being selected as a 2020 Fulbright Scholar! She will spend Spring of 2021 as a Visiting Professor…
Check out the feature in the 2020 Molecular Systems Design and Engineering Emerging Investigators Issue here!
Congratulations to Dr. John Herbert who is the recipient of the 2020 Edward W. Morley Award from the Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society! This prestigious award was established in…
Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Badu-Tawiah and Dr. Steffen Lindert who were recently named 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows! This early-career scholarship represents the most promising…
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Olesik for being awarded the 2020 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for outstanding achievements in the field of analytical chemistry! This is the top award given by…
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Zac Schultz on being named a 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. Each year, fellows are elected by their peers who make up the…
Each year, the Analytical Scientist publishes the Power List of the top 100 analytical chemists. Our department has three of the top 100 in the list (Vicki Wysocki, Susan Olesik,…
More than $27 million from the National Science Foundation will fund two new facilities here in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry! Lead PIs include Rafael Bruschweiler and Robert Baker…
Congratulations to Dr. Yiying Wu who recently received the Akron Section Award from the American Chemical Society! This award honors a scientist or engineer working in any branch of chemistry who…
Congratulations to Dr. T. V. (Babu) RajanBabu who has been awarded the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society! The Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards were established in 1984…
Congratulations to Dr. Shiyu Zhang for being awarded his first National Science Foundation grant! This grant will support Dr. Zhang’s project titled “Applying rules of life to catalysis:…
Please join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in congratulating Dr. Robert Baker for being selected as a Young Innovator in NanoEnergy! These “45 under 45” were selected by peer review…
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat, whose recent work has been selected for the 2019 Journal of the American Chemical Society Young Investigators Virtual Issue. Read the virtual issue here.
Congratulations to Amanda Hummon who has been selected as a PECASE Scholar! Dr. Hummon was nominated for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers three years ago while at…
Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Badu-Tawiah for being awarded his first National Science Foundation grant! This grant will support Dr. Badu-Tawiah’s project titled “High-Performance Panoptic Mass…
Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Badu-Tawiah for being awarded the NIH R01 Award. This NIH R01 grant will provide him with funding to complete a project, publish results, and begin work on a new…
Congratulations to Dr. Özlem Doğan Ekici for being selected to receive the Newark Campus Scholarly Accomplishment Award for 2019! The award recognizes two leading scholars of the faculty who have…
Congratulations to Dr. Claudia Turro who will receive the 2018-2019 Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award! This award recognizes an Arts and Sciences professor who has an…
David Nagib has recently been awarded a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship. This early-career scholarship represents the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and…
Congratulations to Dr. Steffen Lindert who was just informed that he is the winner of the American Chemical Society OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for Spring 2019! This highly…
CONGRATULATIONS to our very own, Professor Dehua Pei on receiving the OSU 2018 Innovator of the Year Award! If you missed the State of Research Address, you can watch it (and Dehua's award…