Prof. King named a Cottrell Scholar

Prof. King was named one of the 2023 Cottrell Scholars. An award of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement the Cottrell Scholars “program honors and helps to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for...

Prof. King recieves 2022 AFOSR YIP

Prof. King was one of 36 young scientists awarded a grant as part of the AFOSR Young Investigator Program (see here).  The funding will support a project focusing on creating new routes to low-temperature, low-pressure synthesis of fuel from renewable chemicals with...

Prof. King receives DOE Early Career Award

Prof. King was selected as one of the prestigious DOE Early Career Award recipients (see here). The proposed research titled “Drawing electronic structure on the nanoscale using switchable molecular interfaces” will probe how and why inhomogeneity on the...

Professor King named Beckman Young Investigator

Professor King was named a 2020 Beckman Young Investigator. The funding from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation will be used to build our time-resolved phase-sensitive eSFG spectrometer to study buried interfaces. Many thanks to the hard work of the group in...

Congratulations to Clare!

Graduate student Clare Keenan was awarded the Physical Sciences Division Teaching Prize for her excellent teaching this past year in General Chemistry! We’re very proud of...