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Chemistry faculty members presented Acorn Awards

2023-11-04

Purdue honored more than 100 researchers with the university’s prestigious Seed for Success Acorn Awards.

The award recognizes Purdue principal investigators and co-investigators who obtain their first research grants with external funding of $1 million or more for a single proposal.

This year’s ceremony honored winners from the past three years, because award ceremonies were cancelled in 2020, 2021 and 2022 due to Covid-related restrictions.

Chemistry awardees included:

2023

  • Ryan Altman
  • Bryan Boudouris
  • Jeffrey Dick
  • Sabre Kais
  • Chi Zhang
  • Christina R. Ferreira (former Cooks postdoc)
  • Philip Low

2022

  • Shelley Claridge
  • Letian Dou
  • Jianguo Mei
  • Philip Low
  • Lauren Ann Metskas
  • David Thompson
  • Arun Ghosh
  • Herman Sintim
  • Christina R. Ferreira (former Cooks postdoc)

2021

  • Gaurav Chopra
  • Sabre Kais
  • Julia Laskin
  • Jianguo Mei
  • Danzhou Yang
  • Herman Sintim

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