Category: Award

CHASE PI Professor Zahra Fakhraai was selected as a recipient of the 2022 Rising Star Award from the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee! This award is awarded to 10 outstanding approaching mid-career female-identifying individuals who have demonstrated outstanding promise … Read more

CHASE PI Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer was named 2021 Sterling Professor of Chemistry. The Sterling Professorship is awarded to a tenured Yale faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field and is one of the Yale University’s … Read more

CHASE PI Dr. José Rodriguez was named a 2021 Fellow of the American Vacuum Society! The naming of a Fellow of the AVS “recognizes AVS members who have made sustained and outstanding technical contributions throughout their careers in areas of … Read more

CHASE PI Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer was selected for the 2021 Willard Gibbs Medal, given annually by the American Chemical Society Chicago Section to an individual whose pioneering work has opened new fields of chemical research. Sharon is recognized for her … Read more

CHASE PI Professor Alex Miller was awarded the 2021 NC-ACS Distinguished Speaker Award! “The NC-ACS Distinguished Lecturer Award is given annually to an individual within the NC-ACS section who has made significant and recognized research contributions to the chemical sciences.” … Read more

CHASE PI Professor Zahra Fahkraai was the recipient of the 2021 Dean’s Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Research! “This award is presented to SAS standing faculty members for meaningful engagement of undergraduate students in research due to exceptional nurturing and facilitating … Read more

Sam Bottum, a graduate student in Jim Cahoon’s laboratory at UNC Chapel Hill and Integrations Thrust Coordinator, has been awarded one of the 2021 Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Awards (SUTASA). These awards were established in 1989 to recognize outstanding … Read more

CHASE PI Professor Sharon Hammes-Schiffer has been awarded the 2021 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Theoretical Chemistry! The award “recognizes innovative research in theoretical chemistry that either advances theoretical methodology or contributes to new discoveries about chemical systems”. Sharon’s … Read more

CHASE PI and Deputy Director, Professor Jillian Dempsey, was awarded the 2021 University Awards for the Advancement of Women from UNC Chapel Hill. The University Awards for the Advancement of Women are cosponsored by the UNC Office of the Chancellor … Read more

University of Pennsylvania Professor Eric Stach was awarded the Materials Research Society (MRS) Woody White Service Award for 2020.   The MRS Woody White Service Award honors outstanding individuals who have embodied the Materials Research Society’s Mission, Vision and Values … Read more

Shivajee Govind, a graduate student in Professor Zahra Fakhraai’s laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the recipients of the 2021 Ovshinsky Student Travel Awards for materials Physics from the Division of Materials Physics in the American Physical … Read more

CHASE Principal Investigator Jeffrey E. Dick has been named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow. On Feb. 16, the Sloan Foundation announced the 2021 fellowships to 128 outstanding early-career researchers across eight fields from 58 institutions in the United States and … Read more

CHASE PI and UNC School of Pharmacy Professor, Dr. Alexander Tropsha, has been elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows! The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and … Read more

CHASE Senior Staff Scientist, Dr. Carrie Donley, was awarded the 2020 Collaborative Research Award from the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN). This award identifies outstanding research projects, papers, and/or presentations that leverage the resources, equipment, and/or expertise available through the … Read more

Jessica Chestnut, a graduate student in Professor Paul Maggard’s laboratory at NCSU, is one of the recipients of the 2020 Student Outreach Award from the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN). This award recognized students for exemplary leadership, initiative, and ongoing … Read more