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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.

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.