Awards
Ryan Bailey (Precision Proteomics, Chemistry) is one of 29 scientists who will receive the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award for 2007.
May Berenbaum (Genomic Ecology of Global Change, Entomology) has won the Entomological Society of America (ESA) Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching in 2006 and has been recognized as the ESA’s outstanding teacher of the year.
Richard Braatz (Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering, Biomolecular and Chemical Engineering) received the 2006 Excellence in Process Development Research Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers which recognized his significant technical contributions fot the advancement of process development.
Sharon Donovan (Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering, Food Science and Human Nutrition) was awarded the Norman Kretchmer Memorial Award in Nutrition and Development in 2006 for her contributions to the field of nutrition and development with potential relevance to improving child health.
Neil Kelleher (Precision Proteomics, Chemistry) received the 2006 Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the Division of Biological Chemistry of the American Chemical Society in recognition of his pioneering developments in the use of mass spectrometry for exploring the mechanisms of enzyme catalysis.
Donald Ort (Genomic Ecology of Global Change, Plant Biology) has been named the recipient of the 2006 Charles F. Kettering Award. This award, established by the Kettering Foundation in 1962, is intended to recognize excellence in the field of photosynthesis.
Larry Schook (Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering, Animal Science) has been elected a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006.
Jonathan Sweedler (Precision Proteomics, Chemistry) received the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award in 2007 from the Society of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh for contributions to analytical chemistry.
Wilfred van der Donk (Mining Microbial Genomes for Novel Antibiotics, Chemistry) was named as a recipient of the 2007 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award. Professor van der Donk was recognized for his work in bioorganic and medicinal chemistry.
