Travel Scholarships Available for 2012 Green Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar

There are travel scholarships available to support US-based graduate students and postdocs attending the 2012 Green Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC). The GRS takes places July 21-22 in Lucca (Barga), Italy and the GRC follows on July 22-27.

All applicants from US institutions who are accepted to both meetings will be automatically considered for travel support. Please note that individuals who receive this funding must arrange their travel in accordance with the Fly America Act.

GRS applicants who are interested in giving a talk or serving as a discussion leader should apply as soon as possible since those roles will be filled in late April. Space permitting, applications for poster presentations at the GRS and GRC will be accepted until June 23.

Meeting details and applications:

GRS: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2012&program=grs_green

GRC: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2012&program=greenchem 

For more information, contact GRS Associate Chair Margaret Scheuermann.

Huimin Zhao Awarded 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship

Huimin Zhao
Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

CENTC investigator Huimin Zhao has received a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship. These fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, with 181 fellowships awarded in 2012 to a diverse group of scholars, artists and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.

Dr. Huimin Zhao is the Centennial Endowed Chair Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and professor of chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, and bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Read the full list of 2012 Guggenheim Fellows here.

CENTC Undergraduate Skye Rios Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Skye Rios

Skye Rios, an alumnus of the 2010 CENTC Undergraduate Summer Research Program, has been awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Skye is a student at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, and will be starting graduate school at the University of Colorado, Boulder this fall with plans to focus on alternative fuels research. Skye spent his summer in CENTC working with Prof. Mike Heinkey and graduate student Joe Meredith. "My experience at CENTC jumpstarted my career in a meaningful and clearly lasting way," he wrote.

The NSF Fellowship will provide Skye with three years of support including a $30,000 annual stipend, a $12,000 annual education allowance for tuition and fees, international research and professional development opportunities, and TeraGrid Supercomputer access. He is the third CENTC undergraduate to receive a Graduate Research Fellowship, joining 2011 Fellows Michele Sarazen and Ricardo Alamillo.

To learn more about the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, visit the program website.