ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution
Purpose: To recognize the importance of research with undergraduates. The award will honor a chemistry faculty member whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to chemistry and to the professional development of undergraduate students.
Nature: The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate. Up to $2,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed. Research Corp. will also provide a grant of $5,000 directly to the recipient's institution.
Eligibility: The nominee's department may offer work leading to the master's degree but cannot have a doctoral program. This award recognizes fundamental research that constitutes advances in science as evidenced by refereed publications with undergraduate coauthors in leading scientific research journals, external research grant support, and the subsequent professional development of students who have participated in the research program. The award will be given for significant work over a long period of time rather than for a specific, limited project. A nominee must be a tenured faculty member of a predominantly undergraduate institution. The award will be granted regardless of race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, presence of disabilities, and educational background.
Deadline: November 1 (annual review).
Establishment & Support: Research Corporation for Science Advancement, a private foundation for the advancement of science, established the award in 1984.
Contact Information
Awards Office
American Chemical Society
1155 16th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20036-4801
Phone: 202-872-4575
Fax: 202-776-8008
awards@acs.org
Recipient
2020 Kerry K. Karukstis
2019 Carol A. Parish
2018 Joseph J. Pesek
2017 Maria Hepel
2016 Thomas E. Goodwin
2015 George C. Shields
2014 Bert E. Holmes
2013 Nancy S. Mills
2012 David K. Lewis
2011 Gregory J. Grant
2010 Thomas J. Wenzel
2009 Moses Lee
2008 John T. Gupton
2007 Cheryl D. Stevenson
2006 Charles F. Beam
2005 Phoebe K. Dea
2004 Keith H. Pannell
2003 Ronald L. Christensen
2002 Thomas C. Werner
2001 Robert F. Pasternack
2000 George B. Kauffman
1999 James N. Spencer
1998 Rabindra N. Roy
1997 Gary C. DeFotis
1996 Norman C. Craig
1995 Joseph Sherma
1994 Claude H. Yoder
1993 Maria C. Linder
1992 Mitsuru Kubota
1991 Philip C. Myhre
1990 Thomas P. Onak
1989 Lon B. Knight, Jr.
1988 Michael P. Doyle
1987 Harold W. Heine
1986 Corwin H. Hansch