This year’s Midwest Award recipient, Dr. Kevin Moeller of Washington University in St. Louis, was recognized at the Midwest Regional Meeting in Wichita. In addition to the Midwest Award Symposium and Lecture, Dr. Moeller was honored along with other regional award winners at the banquet. Several colleagues and students (past and present) made the trip […]
Kevin D Moeller joined the chemistry faculty at Washington University in St Louis in 1987, where he is now Professor of Chemistry. Henry Rohrs, Secretary of the Section, has announced that Kevin Moeller is the winner of the 2019 Midwest Award. Moeller was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on November 25, 1958, earned a BA degree
Your assistance in identifying candidates for the 2019 ACS Midwest Award is solicited. In 1944, the St. Louis Section of the American Chemical Society established the ACS Midwest Award to recognize outstanding achievements an individual made in chemistry in the Midwest Region. From that point on, the award is conferred annually on a scientist who
Please meet Qingfeng Ge, the recipient of the 2018 Midwest Award. Dr Ge will officially receive the 74th Midwest Award and keynote the award symposium at the Midwest Regional Meeting in Ames, Iowa, on October 22nd. Dr Qingfeng Ge is a Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale and Professor in the Department of Chemistry and
Your assistance in identifying candidates for the 2018 ACS Midwest Award is solicited. In 1944, the St. Louis Section of the American Chemical Society established the ACS Midwest Award to recognize outstanding achievements an individual made in chemistry in the Midwest Region. The award is conferred annually on a scientist who has made meritorious contributions
Michael Gross won the Midwest Award, administered by the Saint Louis Section, in 2002. Now the national ACS has admitted that we got it right. Gross, who is professor of chemistry at Washington University in Saint Louis and professor of immunology and internal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, has been named the 2018
The St. Louis Section is pleased to announce that Professor Christer Aakeröy of Kansas State University is the recipient of the 2017 Midwest Award. It will be presented on Thursday, October 19th, at the Midwest Regional Meeting in Lawrence, KS. Christer Aakeröy is the 73rd recipient of the ACS Midwest Award. Although he was born
It’s the season when the Awards Committee starts soliciting nominations for the St Louis Section’s two biggest awards: the St Louis Award and the Midwest Award. You can learn about the history, eligibility, and past winners by following those links there. Those ones in the previous sentence. No, actually, the sentence before the previous one.
Jacob W Petrich, Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University, was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He received his BS from Yale University (1980) and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago (1985), under the mentorship of Graham Fleming. He went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratoire d’Optique
Pegah Jalili, 2015 Chair of the St Louis Section–ACS and Chair of the Midwest Award Jury, has announced the winner of the 2015 Midwest Award: Professor Robert Blankenship of Washington University. Dr Blankenship was born and grew up in southeast Nebraska. He received his BS in Chemistry from Nebraska Wesleyan University (1970) and obtained his
