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Awards and Honors
from Fall 2018
by uncchemistry
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Waters AAAS Fellow
Professor, Marcey Waters, is being honored for her fundamental studies of molecular recognition in water and its role in biomolecular recognition, with application to epigenetic regulation, which encompasses the factors that control gene expression.
Waters is the Glen H. Elder, Jr. Distinguished Professor of chemistry and vice chair for education, as well as the current president of the American Peptide Society. She was the principal investigator on a study, backed by a $1M grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, of protein methylation, which is a mechanism of epigenetic regulation implicated in many diseases, including cancer. - Congratulations, Marcey!
Li NIH Awardee
Bo Li, an Assistant Professor has received a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health, NIH. Li focuses her research on bioactive small molcules produced by bacteria and the ways in which they may help defend the human body against infectious diseases.
Her lab is dedicated to unlocking the hidden chemistry of bacterial genomes and discovering the next generation of antibiotics, and the New Innovator Award will support research to identify novel combinations of antibiotics that exert synergistic activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria. Li is a previous winner of a Packard Fellowship and an NSF Career Award.
Achievement Award
Kenan Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Gary Pielak, has been awarded the prestigious 2017 University Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement. The University Committee on Teaching Awards found abundant evidence of Dr. Pielak’s outstanding contributions to teaching.
Both his students and faculty colleagues were enthusiastic in their praise of his continuing commitment to the highest standards of teaching and to education in general, and commended him for having provided a “rich, supportive environment for higher learning and an exceptionally positive role model which all of us honor with this award.”
Professor Pielak, far left, and his research group.
