“Ron Castellano, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, has received an American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund New Directions Grant (ACS-ND). The two-year grant is in the amount of $100,000 and will support a new research project titled “The Selective and Sequential Chemistry of Electronically-Coupled Lactones”. The New Directions Grant Program aims to stimulate a new direction of research for established faculty, and to support the careers of their student scientists and engineers.”