“Crow Professor and Chair Lisa McElwee-White has been selected to receive the 2019 Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society for her “significant contributions to inorganic/organic nanotechnology, her service as a mentor and teacher among a diversity of students, and her elevation of the public image of chemistry”.
She will receive a monetary prize and certificate at the 2019 ACS national meeting in Orlando, Florida, on March 31 – April 4, during which she will present an award address in the Division of Inorganic Chemistry and attend a one and a half day award symposium in her honor. The medal itself will be presented at the Women Chemists’ Committee luncheon.
Prof. McElwee-White’s research is in synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry with applications in the deposition of inorganic films and nanostructures.
