2022 Faculty News Department of Chemistry

Faculty Hires

Many new faculty joined our department in 2022!

left to right: Julie Fenton (Assistant Professor of Chemistry), Danielle Hickey (Assistant Professor of Chemistry), James Hodges (Assistant Professor of Chemistry), Elvira Sayfutyarova (Assistant Professor of Chemistry)

left to right: Joshua Robinson (courtesy teaching appointment), Jason Cross (Associate Teaching Professor), Katheryn Penrod (Assistant Teaching Professor and Assistant Laboratory Director of Physical Chemistry)

Faculty Retirements

Mark Maroncelli, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, announces retirement after 35 years of service to the university.

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

Marty Bollinger honored with the 2023 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes.

Lauren Zarzar honored with Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award and the 2022 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

Denise Okafor received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.

Susan Sinnott recognized with 2022 AVS Medard W. Welch Award and the 2022 Faculty Scholar Medal.

Amie Boal received the International Society for Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) Early Career Award

Squire Booker honored with two awards from American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Hans Neurath Award from the Protein Society.

David Allara, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, awarded 2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.

John Asbury honored with the 2022 Distinguished Service Award.

Christian Pester honored with the NSF CAREER Award.

Joe Houck receives the 2021 Priestley Teaching Prize.

Scott Showalter named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Jonathan Kuo received an ACS-PRF grant to support his work on "Biologically Inspired Ligands for Aerobic Oxidation".

Eric Nacsa is awarded Doctoral New Investigator PRF Grant.

Mark Hedglin received an NIH MIRA Award to support his work on "Deciphering the progression and regulation of human translesion DNA synthesis.”

Ruobo Zhou received the NIH MIRA Award to support his work on "Deciphering the functional role of actin-spectrin-based membrane skeleton in subcellular compartmentalization of signaling proteins and cell signal transduction".

Honors & Promotions

Earned Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor

left to right: Joseph Cotruvo (Associate Professor), Gerald Knizia (Associate Professor), and Lauren Zarzar (Associate Professor)

Promoted to Full Professor

left to right: Amie Boal (Full Professor), Ed O'Brien (Full Professor), and Ramesh Giri (Full Professor)

Honored Professorships

Marty Bollinger named Marker Professor of Natural Products Chemistry.

Christine Keating named Shapiro Professor of Chemistry.

Mauricio Terrones honored as Evan Pugh Professor at Penn State.

Manuel Llinás named Distinguished Professor.

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