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PLU president Lucas Tucker presented the 2023 National Fresenius Award to Maxwell Robb at the March 2024 New Orleans ACS National Meeting awards banquet.

The 2023 National Fresenius Award recipient is Professor Maxwell Robb of the California Institute of Technology. Research in the Robb group focuses on polymer mechanochemistry, where mechanical force is used to activate chemical transformations in mechanically sensitive molecules known as … Continue reading →

The 2022 National Fresenius Award recipient is Professor Todd Hyster of Cornell University. Research in the Hyster group focuses on developing new biocatalytic methods to address long-standing reactivity and selectivity challenges in organic synthesis. Using protein engineering and directed evolution, … Continue reading →

We would like to congratulate Song Lin (Cornell University) for being among the winners of the 2022 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Green chemistry technologies help our environment by preventing pollution at its source. More information about the award and 2022 … Continue reading →

We would like to congratulate the 2021 Fresenius Award winner – Professor Song Lin of Cornell University. Lin leads an organic chemistry lab with specific research interests in synthetic electrochemistry, asymmetric catalysis, and organic materials. The Lin lab works to develop … Continue reading →

We would like to congratulate the 2020 Fresenius Award winner – Professor Timothy Berkelbach of Columbia University. Berkelbach leads a theoretical chemistry group interested in the electronic and optical properties of molecular, nanoscale, and condensed-phase materials. The team works on … Continue reading →

Kyle M. Lancaster of Cornell University has won the 2019 National Fresenius Award, an ACS National Award sponsored by Phi Lambda Upsilon. The Lancaster lab at Cornell has been exploring the chemistry underlying nitrification, the biological use of ammonia as … Continue reading →

PLU is mourning the loss of Manuel “Manny” Soriaga, a research professor of applied physics and materials science at the California Institute of Technology. He died on July 17, 2019. He was 69. Manny was a close friend and longtime … Continue reading →

We would like to congratulate the 2018 Fresenius Award winner – Prof. Brandi M. Cossairt of the University of Washington. The Cossairt lab at UW focuses on developing the synthetic inorganic chemistry of molecules and materials for targeted applications in … Continue reading →

New PLU leadership has been established with Professor Lucas Tucker of Siena College at the helm. Please check out the full list of National Officers for more information.