Around the Area UT Arlington Four of the UTA College of Science (COS) honors were awarded to members of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. They were: COS Distinguished Record of Research, Dr. Carl Lovely; COS Teaching in the Non-Tenure Track Category, Dr. Bill Cleaver; COS Outstanding Technical Staff Award, Dr. Brian Edwards; COS Outstanding Administrative Staff Award, Mrs. Jill Howard. Among the awards given to students were: ACS Award for Outstanding Chemistry/ Biochemistry Undergraduate Student, Umang Dhaubhadel; President Spaniolo Graduate Student Award. Abbas Vali. Students Weike Chen and Maumita SinghaRoy received awards at the recent online Meeting-in-Miniature.
Dr. Fred MacDonnell was selected to join the UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars. Dr. Sherri McFarland has received a three year, $440,000 NSF grant to study “The Excited State Behavior of Ru (II) Photodrugs.” Dr. Kevin Schug and his group have entered into a research contract with Genentech to study and characterize advanced drug delivery modalities. Dr. Kayunta Johnson-Winters was one of three guest hosts for CHE’s “Listening Session on Broadening Participations, Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity.” The session was held on Mar. 17 with 400 attendees.
May 2021
UT Dallas The 2021 UT Dallas President’s Teaching Excellence Award in Undergraduate Instruction was awarded to Associate Professor Jeremiah Gassensmith Chemistry and Biochemistry, The School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NS&M) Teaching Award for Professors of Instruction was awarded to Dr. Nimanka “Pathum” Panapitiya, and the School of NS&M Graduate Student Teaching Award was awarded to Abhi Bhadran (Stefan Lab).
Miniature Con’t Nisansala Sandamali Abeyrathna (University of Texas at Dallas) 2nd prize Arezoo Shahrivarkevishahi (University of Texas at Dallas) 3rd prize Yingyu Huang (University of Texas at Dallas) Special prize Weike Chen (University of Texas at Arlington) Special prize Undergraduate Section Andrew Duy Vu (University of Texas at Dallas) 1st prize Samantha Martin (Tarleton State University) 2nd prize Arun Kumar Raja (University of Texas at Dallas) 3rd prize Yujin (Lisa) Kim (Southern Methodist University) Special prize Jacob Lynd (University of Texas at Dallas) Special Prize Abigail Lewis (University of Texas at Dallas) Special Prize
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