DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR MICHAEL D. MORSE

IN JULY, MORSE WAS APPOINTED TO THE RANK OF DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY.

His research focuses on spectroscopic studies of small molecules that contain transition metals, lanthanide metals, or actinide metals. These are, chemically, highly important but fiendishly complicated species. Morse's work on these molecules is frequently the first to be reported in the literature and is always definitive. Among his many prior awards he is recipient of the 2019 William F. Meggers Award by the Optical Society of America.

Morse is also the recipient of numerous teaching awards. To date, he has graduated twenty-five PhD and four MS students. Additionally, he has mentored twenty-seven undergraduates working in his group who have been co-authors on almost as many papers.

His professional service to funding agencies has resulted in his being listed in the top twenty reviewers for the Journal of Chemical Physics in 2011. He has also received a Certificate of Reviewing Excellence in 2013 from the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. <