Dr. Julio Alvarez has been awarded an NSF CAREER award for his research. The award was based on his proposal titled “New Strategies for Electrochemical Detection in Microfluidic Systems.” In addition, this research will be part of an outreach program involving senior year students and teachers from high schools in the Richmond, Va. area and undergraduate students at Virginia Commonwealth University.
AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Dr. Hani El-Kaderi’s post-doctoral work on 3-D covalent organic frameworks has led to the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize. It is given each year to a paper selected as the outstanding contribution to Science magazine.
Philip Morris Graduate Fellowships
The department has recently received a three-year grant totaling more than $200,000 from Philip Morris USA to support graduate fellowships and recruiting efforts.
