Phi Lambda Upsilon – The aims and purposes of Phi Lambda Upsilon are the promotion of high scholarship and original investigation in all branches of pure and applied chemistry. Phi Lambda Upsilon was founded as an honorary chemical society in March 1899, at the University of Illinois. This was the first honor society dedicated to a single scientific discipline. Over its more than 100 year history, Phi Lambda Upsilon has grown into an organization comprising seventy-three chapters and more than 60,000 members.
Photo from the 38th PLU National Congress August 20, 2022 in Chicago, IL.
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The 2024 National Fresenius Award recipient is Professor Jeffrey Dick, the Richard B. Wetherill Associate Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. Research in the Dick seeks to understand how chemistry changes under confinement and how nature takes advantage of this difference for the genesis and propagation of life by developing new measurement tools and instrumentation. Their team develops new instrumentation to make these measurements, with a particular emphasis on electrochemistry, which offers unmatched spatiotemporal resolution. https://www.nanoelectrochemistry.com/Prof. Dick will be honored at the awards ceremony on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in conjunction with the ACS Spring 2025 meeting in San Diego. For more information, visit the ACS website and see the announcement in C&EN.
- PLU president Lucas Tucker presented the 2023 National Fresenius Award to Maxwell Robb at the March 2024 New Orleans ACS National Meeting awards banquet.
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