DuPont Announces 2005-2007 Young Professor Award Recipients
Twelve Early Career Grants Given to Promising New Faculty Members
WILMINGTON, Del., June 22, 2005 — DuPont today announced the recipients of the DuPont Young Professor Awards for the academic years 2005-2007. This innovative grant program is designed to provide start-up assistance to promising young and untenured research faculty working in areas of interest to DuPont's long-term business.
Initiated in 1968, DuPont has given over 500 of these awards. Many past award recipients have gone on to gain significant recognition in their chosen field from their scientific peers and colleagues. Each faculty member must be nominated by a member of the DuPont technical staff who agrees to serve as the liaison between the company and the faculty member. The decision for making the awards resides with the DuPont Fellows Forum which includes the top scientists in the company.
"The DuPont Young Professor grant program is an excellent way for DuPont to create lasting relationships with future academic scientists who can provide the company with unique perspectives on technological challenges, further aiding our R&D process," said Chris Hollinsed, manager of DuPont Academic Programs.
This year's awards were made to the following promising young faculty:
Phil S. Baran, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, for work in the exploration of new avenues for the efficient and practical construction of organic molecules.
Dionysios Dionysiou, Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Cincinnati, for work in the area of environmentally friendly advanced oxidation nanotechnologies.
Christopher W. Jones, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The Georgia Institute of Technology, for work in the area of molecular design of immobilized metal complex catalysts, polymerization catalysis, functional silica materials and catalytic conversion of renewable resources.
Yong Lak Joo, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, for work in microstructural rheology and processing of complex fluids, the formation of nanofibers via electrospinning, and the solid state processing of advanced polymeric materials.
Christopher Li, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Drexel University, for work in designing, synthesizing and systematically investigating a series of bent-core liquid crystalline (BCLC) diblock copolymers; fabricating well-defined nano building blocks and exploring the nanoelectrooptic properties of these novel hierarchical structures.
Teri W. Odom, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, for work in the synthesis and characterization of nanoscale materials, the design and fabrication of tools useful in nanotechnology, and the development of methods to manipulate nanostructures and mesostructures into functional assemblies.
Joel P. Schneider, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Delaware, for work in the design, synthesis, and efficacy of novel amino acids, peptides, and proteins.
Francesco Stellacci, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for work in the area of the synthesis, characterization and nano-patterning of metal nanoparticles.
Huimin Zhao, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign for work in protein engineering, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics and high throughput technologies such as directed evolution and protein microarrays.
Lei Zhu, Institute of Materials Science & Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut, for work in the area of polymer phase transformations in nano-confined spaces, nanophase structure and morphology of block copolymers in the bulk and on the surfaces and block copolymer organic/inorganic nanocomposites.
Yongju Huang, Department of Plant Pathogens Interactions, Rothamsted Research (UK) for work in the control of Phoma Stem Canker in Oilseed Rape.
Dong Yuan Zhao, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University (Shanghai), for work in the area of nanophase materials for embedded passive applications.
DuPont is a science company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 70 countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture, nutrition, electronics, communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transportation and apparel.
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