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October 26, 2015

Campbell wins 2015 AVS Medard W. Welch Award

The Medard W. Welch Award recognizes continual outstanding research over 10 years in fields of interest to the AVS. This top AVS award was established in 1969 and presented to Charlie Cambell in 2015 for his “seminal contributions to determining accurate adsorption energetics and for developing key concepts for the analysis of important catalytic reactions.” Learn more about this award and see a list of past recipients and read Charlie’s award recipient interview transcript.


May 9, 2015

Prof. Steven Tait gets tenure at IU

Former member Steven L. Tait (Ph.D. 2005) was promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor with tenure at Indiana University, effective Fall 2015. Way to go, Steve!


June 19, 2014

DOE EFRC Proposal Gets Funded

The Campbell Group was granted funding for 4 years along in a collaborative proposal with the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Argonne National Lab and PNNL. These groups will form the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC), devoted to computationally guided discovery of a new class of energy science-relevant catalytic materials and the underlying structure-function relationships that will guide further catalyst discovery.

 


June 12, 2014

DOE grant gets funded

Unofficial word was received this week that the group’s renewal application to DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences got funded! This is an individual-investigator grant (PI = CT Campbell) for three years of funding, entitled “Supported Metal Nanoparticles: Correlating Structure with Catalytic Function through Energetics.”


June 5, 2014

Dr. Lara Gamble wins 2014 AVS ASSD Award

Dr. Lara Gamble (Ph.D. 2016) won the AVS Applied Surface Science Division (ASSD) Peter M. A. Sherwood Mid-Career Professional Award recognizing her achievement and exceptional progress in research and development. Check out more information about the AVS ASSD Award. Congratulations Lara!


June 3, 2014

Campbell’s NSF Proposal gets funded!

An individual-investigator grant entitled “Sustainable Chemistry:  Energies of Adsorbed Catalytic Intermediates on Transition Metal Surfaces” was funded on June 3, 2014.


May 15, 2014

Trent Silbaugh passes dissertation!

Trent Silbaugh passed his PhD Final Exam on May 15, 2014. Congratulations!


May 10, 2014

Dr. Nancy J Ruzycki receives 2014 Faculty Excellence Award

Former Postdoc Dr. Nancy Ruzycki received the 2014 Faculty Excellence Award from the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. This award is presented to encourage and reward excellence, innovation and effectiveness in education, research and service activities.


April 21, 2014

Campbell Group calorimetry experiments highlighted in C&EN

Calorimetry experiments performed by Eric Karp and Trent Silbaugh were highlighted in Chemistry & Engineering News Volume 96! The article was edited by Mitch Jacoby.

Adsorption Calorimetry (pdf version of article)


March 19, 2014

Prof. Steven Tait wins Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

Former Ph.D. student Steven Tait wins 2014 Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award March 12, 2014. Congratulations!



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