Stahl garners American Chemical Society award

September 1st 2015 Simon Kuran
Awards, Natural & Physical Sciences
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Professor of Chemistry Shannon Stahl is one three UW-Madison faculty members to receive a prestigious award for excellence in research from the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Stahl Stahl

Stahl was awarded the ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry, along with collaborators Martin Johnson and Joseph Martinelli of Eli Lilly and Company, for efforts to utilize environmentally friendly aerobic oxidations in commercial pharmaceutical development and manufacturing processes.

Ronald Raines, Henry Lardy Professor of Biochemistry, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Biology, and professor of chemistry, and Nicholas Abbott, John T. and Magdalen L. Sobota Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, also received ACS honors.

The three professors will be recognized during a ceremony at the 251st ACS National Meeting in San Diego, on March 15.

Founded in 1876, ACS is the largest scientific society in the world, with more than 158,000 members. The society works to demonstrate the value of chemistry to society and to support professional scientists in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.

Story by Libby Dowdall, Department of Chemistry