Crisis and Community

2020 Annual Report

A “I am so thankful that I’m part of a group of people that cares so much about the thoughtful mentoring and education of the next generations of scientists. These are my people.” Cottrell Scholar

“It was particularly hard during the pandemic to get in touch with fellow scientists, and I only recognized during the Scialog meeting how much I was missing these interactions. Thanks for making this possible.” Scialog: Negative Emissions Science Fellow B Letter from the President Along with the terrible losses and disruptions of the impact of the pandemic. In response to their We recognize that a return to “normal” will be 2020 came evidence for optimism about human concerns about keeping scientific careers on track neither rapid nor easy. Our support and programs resilience, scientific innovation, and the power at a time when most universities and colleges will continue to focus on basic research in the of partnerships. The community of teacher- severely cut back their faculty hiring plans, we physical sciences, while also paying close attention scholars that the Research Corporation for Science joined with the National Science Foundation to to how we can help improve the lives and careers of Advancement supports adapted to teaching online offer fellowships to senior postdoctoral fellows who faculty in the sciences at universities, colleges, and and to guiding their research groups remotely; in a non-pandemic year would have expected to be research institutes. Please be in touch with your long-term investigations were put on hold as launching independent research programs. We also observations and advice as we all work together to efforts detoured toward improving coronavirus offered support for new instrumentation needed put the pandemic behind us and to create a more diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines; and to continue research and learning at primarily diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for physical scientists with expertise in molecular undergraduate institutions. scientific inquiry and student learning. structure, chemical and materials design, and By late 2020, with the experience we developed data analytics forged collaborations with in organizing online discussions to promote microbiologists and immunologists to develop collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches to new strategies in the ongoing battle against complex challenges, we proceeded in partnership human pathogens. with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with the Throughout this difficult year, the foundation’s scheduled inaugural meeting of the Scialog: approach has been to listen to the needs of our Negative Emissions Science initiative. For both community and to respond quickly with changes Sloan and RCSA, our thinking was that despite in our programs and support. We put on hold the pandemic, climate change is such a pressing several initiatives to focus instead on funding issue that we need to move ahead without delay promising ideas to tackle COVID-19, and on to support the most compelling ideas to reduce bringing together Cottrell Scholars to consider how atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases. We were to help students learn effectively and equitably delighted that the Thistledown Foundation joined online. Through Cottrell Conversations, we gave Sloan and RCSA in the support of projects that faculty opportunities to share their thoughts about emerged from that meeting.

Daniel Linzer President & CEO Research Corporation for Science Advancement

1 2020 Awards

In 2020, Research Corporation for The Cottrell Scholar Program develops outstanding The COVID-19 Initiative supported cutting-edge Science Advancement supported a teacher-scholars recognized by their scientific research into the detection and mitigation of the communities for the quality of their research current and future epidemics. In 2020, seven teams diverse community of early-career programs, innovation in education, and potential of scientists were awarded a total of $715,000. scientists at colleges and universities for academic leadership. In 2020, Cottrell Scholar Cottrell Fellowships supported the work of in the United States and Canada Program funding included $2.5 million for 25 initial postdoctoral fellows whose plans to start through its Cottrell Scholar Program Cottrell Scholar Awards, $75,000 for three Cottrell independent academic or research careers were Scholars Collaborative Awards, and $565,000 for nine and Scialog, in addition to three delayed or derailed due to pandemic-related Cottrell Plus Awards (the competitive FRED, SEED, institutional hiring freezes. In 2020, RCSA awarded emergency initiatives in response STAR, and IMPACT awards). $831,250 to 13 Cottrell Scholars. Four of these to the global pandemic: the COVID-19 Scialog promotes dialogue and community-building awards were funded through a $340,000 grant from Initiative, Cottrell Fellowships, and to catalyze transformational science through the National Science Foundation. Cottrell Instrumentation Supplements. collaborative, interdisciplinary research. In 2020, Cottrell Instrumentation Supplements supported RCSA awarded $330,000 to early-career faculty for new instrumentation (or updates to existing scientific research through Scialog Collaborative equipment) needed to continue research and Innovation Awards. The contributions of partner learning at institutions struggling with the financial philanthropies toward Scialog awards brought this impact of the pandemic. In 2020, RCSA awarded total to $1,155,000. (Three other Scialog initiatives 11 Cottrell Instrumentation Supplements totaling were postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic.) $141,000.

2 Cottrell Scholar Awards $100,000 is awarded to each scholar for a total of $2,500,000.

Carlos R. Baiz Pengfei Huo Kristin S. Koutmou Chemistry, Chemistry, Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin University of Rochester University of Michigan Molecular Dynamics at Enabling New Chemical Chemical Modifications to mRNA Heterogeneous Oil-Water Reactivities through Polariton Nucleosides: A New Frontier in Interfaces and a New Approach Photochemistry Gene Regulation to Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Graduate Students

Kateri H. DuBay Catherine Kealhofer Kah Chun Lau Chemistry, Physics, Physics, California State University of Virginia Williams College University, Northridge Teaching Entropy and Nonequilibrium Phonon Data-Driven Solubility Model Modeling the Sequence- Dynamics in Two-dimensional Development of Concentrated Determinants of Surface-Initiated Materials Non-aqueous Electrolytes Copolymerizations

Keary M. Engle Elena F. Koslover Frank A. Leibfarth Chemistry, Physics, University of Chemistry, University of Scripps Research Institute California, San Diego North Carolina at Chapel Hill Catalytic Difunctionalization Physics of Cellular Distribution Organocatalytic Kinetic of Alkenes Using Transient Networks: Morphology and Resolution Polymerization of Directing Groups Transport in the Endoplasmic Lactones Reticulum

3 Huey-Wen Lin Elisabetta Matsumoto Peter P. Orth Physics, Physics, Georgia Institute Physics, Michigan State University of Technology Iowa State University Unveiling the Three-Dimensional Knotty Knits: Using Topological Probing Fractionalization Structure of Nucleons Constraints to Program Geometry and Entanglement in Quantum and Elastic Response in Knitted Spin Liquids: Theory of Textiles with Lattice Defects Two-dimensional Spectroscopy

Song Lin Sharon R. Neufeldt Cedric Owens Chemistry, Chemistry, Chemistry, Cornell University Montana State University Chapman University New Catalytic Methods for Combined Experimental and Constructing a Better Enantioselective Electrosynthesis Computational Approach to Nitrogenase by Uncovering and Introducing Electrosynthesis Improving Nickel and Palladium- Protein-protein Interactions to College and Graduate Catalyzed Cross-Couplings That Protect the Enzyme and Curricula Expand its Chemistry

Britt F. Lundgren Glen D. O’Neil Dennis V. Perepelitsa Astronomy, University of Chemistry, Physics, University of Colorado North Carolina Asheville Montclair State University Boulder Shedding Light on Star Neurotransmitter Detection using Next-Generation Experimental Formation Driven Galaxy Light-Addressable Electrochemical Probes of Hot and Dense Nuclear Outflows across Cosmic Time Sensors: Investigating the Role of Matter Metal Morphology and Coverage on Sensor Response using Scanning Electrochemical Methods

4 Leslie A. Rogers David A. Strubbe Jessica K. Werk Astronomy, University of Physics, University of Astronomy, Chicago California, Merced University of Washington Searching for Water in Light-induced Structural The Observational Signatures Distant Worlds: Connecting Dynamics in Materials: of Cosmic Gas Flows in a the Atmospheric and Bulk New Theoretical Insight into Hydrodynamic Framework Compositions of Sub-Neptune- Ultrafast Phenomena Size Planets

Brenda M. Rubenstein Claire P. Till Chemistry, Brown University Chemistry, Advancing Chemistry through Humboldt State University Data Science: Catalyst Design Scandium and Iron: Parallels via Data-Enabled Quantum in Chemical Reactivity, and Chemistry and Integrating Reducing the Opportunity Gap in Data Science into the Chemistry the HSU Chemistry Department Curriculum and Beyond

Lorenzo Sironi Jesus M. Velazquez Astronomy, Columbia Chemistry, University of University California, Davis To B or Not to B: Achieving Energy Conversion The Birth and Death of Functionality through Magnetic Fields in the Universe Compositional Modification: The Role of Metal Promotion in Chalcogenide Frameworks

5 Cottrell Scholars Collaborative Awards

At the annual Cottrell Scholar Moving the Dial: A Network Geoff Hutchison Conference, participants are for Systematic Change Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh encouraged to form teams and This project seeks to support broader diversification Kristen Koutmou and improved equity and inclusion in science by Chemistry, University of Michigan develop collaborative projects with building a national network of Scholars researching Tim Kowalczyk potential national impact in science specific areas of DEI and creating readily Chemistry, Western Washington University education. Through this Cottrell disseminatable products. Aaron Leconte Chemistry, Claremont MacKenna College Scholars Collaborative program, Lead Cottrell Scholar: Dinah Loerke RCSA funded three projects in 2020 Rory Waterman Physics and Astronomy, University of Denver Chemistry, University of Vermont at $25,000 each. Gina MacDonald In collaboration with additional Cottrell Scholars: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nandini Ananth James Madison University Chemistry, Cornell University Ellen Matson Ashleigh Baber Chemistry, University of Rochester Chemistry, James Madison University Charles McCrory Lou Charkoudian Chemistry, University of Michigan Chemistry, Haverford College Nikki Pohl Laura Chomiuk Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University Sarah Reisman Nancy Forde Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Physics, Simon Fraser University California Institute of Technology Carla Fröhlich Chad Risko Physics, North Carolina State University Chemistry, University of Kentucky Jordan Gerton David Strubbe Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah Physics, University of California, Merced Amanda Hargrove Jesús M. Velázquez Chemistry, Duke University Chemistry, University of California, Davis Rigoberto Hernandez Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University

6 Seeing is Believing: Enhancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Age of the Visualization of Atoms, Molecules, COVID-19: A New STEM Pipeline Model that and Materials Using Augmented Grows Undergraduate Research at Minority- and Virtual Reality Serving Institutions via Collaboration, This collaborative aims to develop a process for Personnel Exchange and Online Training using augmented and virtual reality in aiding The goal of this award is to increase visualization of atoms, molecules, and materials underrepresented minority participation in in an effort to enable students in chemistry STEM fields by developing a new pipeline model and physics courses to visualize concepts where that combines high-quality collaborative research conventional resources often prove inadequate. with research exchanges, available to first year undergraduates at historically Black or Hispanic- Lead Cottrell Scholar: serving colleges and universities. Katherine Mirica Chemistry, Dartmouth College Lead Cottrell Scholar: In collaboration with additional Cottrell Scholars: Shane Ardo Chemistry, University of California, Irvine Geoff Hutchison Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh In collaboration with additional Cottrell Scholars: Kah Chun Lau Shannon Boettcher 2020 Cottrell Scholars Conference Physics, California State University, Northridge Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon Huey-Wen Lin Tom Markland Physics, Michigan State University Chemistry, Stanford University Günther Thiele Yogi Surendranath Inorganic Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Chemistry, Massachusetts Institution of Technology Germany And with: Matt Minus Prairie View A&M University Niya Sa University of Massachusetts, Boston Yixian Wang California State University, Los Angeles 7 Cottrell Plus Awards

As their scientific careers advance, Cottrell Cindy Regal Scholars are eligible to receive post-tenure Cottrell Plus Awards to further support FRED Associate Professor of Physics, their research and educational activities. University of Colorado Boulder Cottrell Plus prizes include FRED, SEED, The 2020 FRED Award was made to Cottrell STAR, and IMPACT awards. FRED is the Scholar 2014 Cindy Regal, associate professor of highest award ($250,000) for a high-risk, physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. high-reward project with the potential to The award will support her efforts to address challenges in nuclear spin detection and transform a significant area of research. imaging, and to broaden approaches to precision SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of mechanical sensing. Her pioneering work could Discovery) awards are competitive grants create a new pathway for observing spins through force signatures and perhaps enable to launch new projects in research 3D imaging at the nanoscale. (at $50,000 each) or education (at $25,000 each). STAR (Excellence in Science Teaching and Research) awards recognize the outstanding research and educational accomplishments of Cottrell Scholars and encourage the improvement of science education at American and Canadian universities and colleges. STAR and IMPACT (recognizing the work of Cottrell Scholars who have had a national impact in science through leadership and service activities) each award $5,000 to winners.

8 Richard Brutchey Hanadi Sleiman Helen Blackwell SEED SEED STAR Chemistry, University of Chemistry, McGill University Chemistry, University of Southern California UDNA Hydrogels Promoted Wisconsin, Madison Optimization of Quantum Dot by Small Molecules: Highly Cottrell Scholar 2005 Nanofabrication Based on Scalable Synthesis and High-Throughput Continuous Stimuli-Responsive Applications Flow Chemistry in Tissue Regeneration

Mark Bussell Brian Stoltz Julio de Paula SEED SEED STAR Chemistry, Western Chemistry and Chemical Chemistry, Lewis and Clark Washington University Engineering, California College Metal Phosphide-Oxide Institute of Technology Cottrell Scholar 1994 Hybrid Catalysts for Solar Fuels Advancement of Small Molecule Production Electron Crystallography via MicroED: Leading the Transition from Proofs of Concept to Global Adoption

Seth Herzon Ann West Rigoberto Hernandez SEED SEED IMPACT Chemistry, Yale University Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Practical Methods for University of Oklahoma University Oxygen-oxygen Bond Formation How Does an Anaerobic Cottrell Scholar 1999 Microbial Pathogen Sense Oxygen Stress?

9 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards

The Scialog program was created Due to the pandemic, RCSA convened in 2010 by RCSA, which oversees its one Scialog conference in 2020 in administration. Scialog— short for which awards were made— the virtual “science + dialog”—funds early-career inaugural meeting of the Negative scientists to pursue transformative Emissions Science initiative. Through research with their fellow grantees on 2020 Scialog Collaborative Innovation crucial issues of scientific inquiry. Scialog Awards, RCSA along with funding initiatives are a multi-year thematic partners the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation investment, in which around 50 early- and the Thistledown Foundation career Scialog Fellows, facilitated by 10 provided a total of $1,155,000 in seed leading scientists, convene annually to funding for eight teams’ research. discuss cutting-edge multidisciplinary themes and propose high-risk collaborative projects.

10 Scialog: Negative Emissions Science Year 1

Goal: To catalyze chemists, engineers, environmental Kathryn Knowles 1 Nanette Boyle 1 scientists and those in related Chemistry, University of Rochester Chemical & Biological Engineering, fields to collaborate on new and innovative projects Carlos Morales-Guio 1 Colorado School of Mines to accelerate breakthroughs in the fundamental Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chong Liu 1 understanding of capturing and utilizing or University of California, Los Angeles Chemistry and Biochemistry, sequestering carbon and other greenhouse gases Robert Coridan 1 University of California, Los Angeles in the atmosphere and oceans that will lead to a Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas Solar-Augmented Direct Air Capture of Methane Using Methanotrophic Bacteria sustainable future. Each of the 21 individual awards Integrated Low-Temperature Electrified Process for CO2 Direct Air Capture and Transformation to Solid Carbon is $55,000. Greeshma Gadikota 3 3 Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2 Rafael Santos Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada School of Engineering, University of Guelph Cornell University Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, 1 3 University of Southern California Pratik Dholabhai Venkat Viswanathan Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University 2 Physics and Astronomy, Burcu Gurkan Rochester Institute of Technology Envisioning a Low Carbon Built Environment through Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 1 Innovative Electrochemical and Chemical Processing of Case Western Reserve University Andrea Hicks Construction Materials and Enhanced Circular Reuse 2 Civil and Environmental Engineering, Xiao Su University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 1 Investigation of the Carbonation Dynamics of Synthetic Wilson Smith University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chemical and Biological Engineering, Silicates: Guiding the Development of Net-Negative Production Electrifying Humidity-Swing Adsorption for DAC by University of Colorado Boulder Process and Deployment in Enhanced Rock Weathering Modulation of Redox-Polymer Hydration David Kwabi 1 1 Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan 2 Nanette Boyle William Bowman Chemical & Biological Engineering, 1 Materials Science and Engineering, Robert Gilliard Colorado School of Mines Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia University of California, Irvine 3 2 Shu Hu Electrochemically Driven Reactive Capture of CO2 Eva Nichols Chemical and Environmental Engineering, from Air Using Azolium-Carboxylates Chemistry, University of British Columbia Yale University 2 Robert Coridan Bricks from The Ocean: Hybrid Microbial-Electrochemical Total Funding by Source Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas Mineralization of CO2 Using Electrochemistry to Improve Selectivity of 1: Sloan: $605,000 Plasma-Assisted CO2 Reduction 2: RCSA: $330,000 3: Thistledown: $220,000

11 COVID-19 Initiative Detecting and Mitigating Epidemics

RCSA awarded seven teams of scientists a total Modulating Ribosomal Frameshifts to Interfere of $715,000 for cutting-edge research that could with Viral Protein Translation contribute to the global effort to combat the Stephen Fried coronavirus. For each proposal, team members were Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University awarded $55,000 apiece to support the work. Matthias Heyden Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University Glycomimetics for Inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 Entry Carlos Simmerling Nicole Snyder Chemistry, Stony Brook University Chemistry, Davidson College Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 Frameshift Site Pseudoknot Collaborating with: Amanda Hargrove Laura Hartmann Chemistry, Duke University Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf Katie Mouzakis Mario Schelhaas Chemistry, Loyola Marymount University Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität, Münster Collaborating with: Pan-Covid-19 MultiValent Binders (MVBs) Victoria D’Souza to Block Virus Entry Harvard University Rommie Amaro Gary Brewer Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of California, San Diego SARS-CoV-2 illustration: Rommie Amaro, Ronit Freeman A New Technology to Assess COVID-19 Serosurveillance University of California San Diego Applied Physical Sciences, Neil Kelleher University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chemistry, Northwestern University Carlos Simmerling Collaborating with: Electric Field-Driven Antigen Enrichment to Achieve Chemistry, Stony Brook University Paul Thomas, Eleonora Forte, Rafael Melani, Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein in Urine at the Point-of-Need Establishing Swift, Sensitive, and Selective (3S) Sensing Richard LeDuc, Daniela Ladner, Technologies – Going Beyond RT-PCR Alexander (Sasha) Misharin and Huiping Liu Robbyn Anand Northwestern University Chemistry, Iowa State University Ronit Freeman Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Zachary Schultz Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University 12 Cottrell Fellowships

RCSA awarded $831,250 to 13 Cottrell Scholars to John Fourkas (postdoc Nikos Liaros) Lorenzo Sironi (postdoc Lucca Comisso) support the work of postdoctoral fellows whose University of Maryland, College Park Columbia University plans to start independent academic or research 2-Beam Action Spectroscopy for Elucidating Complex Unveiling Particle Energization in Astrophysical Plasmas careers this year were delayed or derailed due Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Emerging 2D Materials Brent Melot (postdoc Ahamed Irshad) to institutional hiring freezes. Four of these Teri Odom (postdoc Shikai Deng) University of Southern California awards were funded through a $340,000 grant Northwestern University Solid Electrolytes with Dual Li+ and F- ion Conductivity to from the National Science Foundation. Core-shell Plasmonic Nanoparticle Lattices Overcome the Barrier of Gravimetric Capacity

Seth Cohen (on behalf of postdoc Kyle Bentz) Frank Leibfarth (postdoc Aaron Teator) David Ginger (postdoc Connor Bischak) University of California, San Diego University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Washington Cottrell Fellowship – Dr. Kyle Bentz – Metal-Free, Controlled Stereoselective Polymerization Machine Learning Guided Investigations of Structure Function MOF-polymer Hybrid Materials of Vinyl Ethers Relationships in Organic Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductors

Jahan Dawlaty (postdoc Sohini Sarkar) Maura McLaughlin (postdoc Dustin Madison) University of Southern California West Virginia University Designer Electric Fields at Interfaces to Innovative Gravitational Research and Creative Curricular Influence Electrocatalysis Development: A Bridge to a Career as a Teacher-Scholar

Luis Campos (postdoc Rinat Meir) Kevin McFarland (postdoc Daniel Ruterbories) Columbia University University of Rochester Photon Upconversion Biomaterials for Light-Activated Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction Studies for Neutrino Tissue Engineering Interferometry, and a Flipped Classroom for Vulnerable STEM students in Introductory Physics in the COVID19 Year Sarbajit Banerjee (postdoc Rachel Davidson) Texas A&M University Vicky Kalogera (postdoc Diego Munoz) Developing Design Rules for Accessing Metastable Solids Northwestern University through Global Exploration of Synthetic Landscapes Distorted Accretion Disks: The Restless Environments of Planet-Forming Systems

13 Cottrell Instrumentation Supplements

Following listening sessions with Cottrell Mario Affatigato Gregory O’Neil Scholars on the challenges of reopening Physics, Coe College Chemistry, Western Washington University research laboratories and programs during Purchase of a Vickers Microindenter for Glass Studies WWU Benchtop NMR Supplement Request the COVID-19 pandemic, RCSA made awards Fadi Bou-Abdallah Cedric Owens totaling $141,000 for new instrumentation (or Chemistry, SUNY Potsdam Chemistry, Chapman University for updates to existing equipment) needed to Acquisition of an ÄKTA Go Chromatography System to A Request to Fund the Purchase of a Fermenter, continue research and learning at 11 primarily Help Expand and Support Learning and Research at SUNY A Vessel for Learning and Knowledge Creation undergraduate institutions. The awards, tailored Potsdam to individual needs in amounts from $10,000 Shahir Rizk Chemistry, Indiana University at South Bend to $20,000, were to be used as a matching- Mark Bussell Chemistry, Western Washington University Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) for Analysis of fund commitment for grant applications, or Instrumentation for Raman Thermometry – Biomolecular and Surface Interactions where at least half of the funds to purchase the Probing Photocatalysis at the Nanoscale instrument were identified. George Shields Jason Gillmore Chemistry, Furman University Chemistry, Hope College Acquisition of Computing Nodes to Support Into the Future – Updating a GC and GC/MS Instrumentation Experimental Research at Furman University Suite at Hope College to Extend Instrument Life and Improve Network Security Thomas Solomon Physics, Bucknell University Casey Londergan Instrumentation for Bucknell’s Biophysics Program Chemistry, Haverford College A New Dynamic Light Scattering Instrument at Haverford College Ryan McGorty Physics, University of San Diego Upgraded Laser-Scanning Confocal Microscope System for Research and Teaching

14 2020

Year in January An American Institute of Physics National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation Review in Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy (TEAM-UP) spent two years investigating reasons for the persistent underrepresentation of African Americans in physics. RCSA provided funding to support this groundbreaking report, “The Time Is Now: Systemic Changes to Increase African Americans with Bachelor’s Degrees in Physics and Astronomy,” which was released at the American Astronomical Society meeting. Philip “Bo” Hammer, Senior Director, UCSD Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown and American Institute of Physics, who often works RCSA President and CEO Daniel Linzer with Cottrell Scholar Collaborative teams, played a key role as a task force member. award, a joint initiative of Volkswagen and BASF, is aimed at young scientists of excellence. Kimberly Cottrell Scholar 1999 Karen Bjorkman was named was recognized for her outstanding contribution to provost and executive vice president for academic research into multivalent ion and sulfur batteries. affairs at The University of Toledo. RCSA was a sponsor of the free Arizona Science February Lecture Series for 2020, “Catalysts of Change,” in RCSA was honored February 19 at a daylong Tucson, Ariz. The lectures explored the catalysts— University of California, San Diego, symposium both positive and negative—influencing the pace celebrating philanthropy’s role in the future of of global change and how these scientific advances science. The event, “Anticipating the Future of Science: will profoundly impact how we live 20 years from A Look Back and a Look Ahead,” brought together now and beyond. university officials, RCSA-funded scientists, and Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage Fellow representatives from philanthropies to celebrate Kimberly See, Chemistry and Chemical the importance of foundation support in driving Engineering, California Institute of Technology, scientific research. Early-career faculty at UCSD and was named the 2019 recipient of the prestigious the University of San Diego spoke on the impact of international Science Award Electrochemistry. The RCSA funding on their research and careers.

15 Three Cottrell Scholars and two Scialog Fellows (AAAS) Fellows: CS 2004 Vicky Kalogera, Physics & an innovator at the interface of chemistry and biology received 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships of Astronomy, Northwestern; CS 1999 Steve Bradforth, whose work is playing a pioneering role in the field $75,000: CS 2017 Amanda Hargrove, Chemistry, Chemistry, University of Southern California; of bacterial quorum sensing. CS 1994 Julio de Paula, Duke University; CS 2020 Frank Leibfarth, CS 2013 Zach Schultz, Chemistry, The Ohio State Chemistry, Lewis & Clark College, was recognized Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at University; and CS 1994 George Shields, Chemistry, as a researcher, educator and leader who is having Chapel Hill; CS 2018 Sean Roberts, Chemistry, Furman University. a broad impact on science, his students and The University of Texas at Austin; Advanced colleagues, and science education around the world. CS 1994 George Shields was named a 2020 Council Energy Storage Fellow Kelsey Hatzell, Chemical & on Undergraduate Research Fellow for facilitating Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University; undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative March and Time Domain Astrophysics Fellow activities through mentorship and demonstrated CS 2013 Eric Schelter, Chemistry, University of Erik Petigura, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA. leadership activities. Pennsylvania, received the American Chemical 2018 Cottrell Scholar Lisa Ryno, Chemistry, Oberlin Society’s 2020 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship CS 2016 Di Xiao, Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, College, is leading a new mentoring program for Award. He presented his research on the challenges and students published an Editors’ Suggestion in underrepresented students in the sciences, called associated with recycling heavy-duty batteries and Physical Review Letters. Their paper, “Tunable Layer PERSIST. She wants participants to interact with electronics at the ACS Fall National Meeting. Circular Photogalvanic Effect in Twisted Bilayers,” shows faculty, learn about work in a research lab, and that circularly polarized light at normal incidence Rigoberto Hernandez was interviewed about his leave the program thinking, “I can be a scientist.” is predicted to induce a static out-of-plane dipole career and the need for diversity in the scientific Judith Su, Optical Sciences and Biomedical moment in twisted bilayer structures. community in the American Chemical Society’s Engineering, University of Arizona, was featured student member magazine, inChemistry. “Diversity CS 1999 Rigoberto Hernandez, Chemistry, Johns in the 2020 SPIE Women in Optics planner allows people to look at solving problems in Hopkins University, was awarded RCSA’s 2020 highlighting “women who are making a difference different ways, using different perspectives,” he said. IMPACT Award in recognition of more than a decade through their work and other contributions to the of effort helping scientists develop the skills they CS 2020 Glen O’Neil, Chemistry, Montclair State fields of science, optics, and engineering.” SPIE is need to grow into leadership roles beyond the University, earned a National Science Foundation the international society for optics and photonics. classroom or research lab, as well as his commitment CAREER grant to measure neurotransmission Su is a Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell to removing the barriers that inequitably affect pathways in and around cells, and to increase Fellow and a recipient of two Scialog Collaborative scientists in pursuing research careers. retention of community college transfer students Innovation Awards, by engaging them in research. Two Cottrell Scholars were named recipients of 2020 Four Cottrell Scholars were named 2019 American STAR Awards. CS 2005 Helen Blackwell, Chemistry, Association for the Advancement of Science University of Wisconsin, Madison, was honored as

16 April About 120 members of the RCSA community— University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; CS 2019 “Reopening Research Laboratories and Programs,” were Cottrell Scholars, Scialog Fellows, and Scialog Ellen Matson, Chemistry, University of Rochester; attended by established faculty as well as members Facilitators—engaged in a series of online meetings CS 2019 Katherine Mirica, Chemistry, Dartmouth of the new Cottrell Scholar class of 2020. “Thank the week of April 20 as part of RCSA’s COVID-19 College; CS 2019 Alison Narayan, Chemistry, you for putting these conversations together,” one Initiative: Detecting and Mitigating Epidemics. University of Michigan; and CS 2018 Alex Spokoyny, participant said. “It has been helpful to connect In facilitating the emergency initiative, RCSA Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles. with my peers to share stories and to help each aimed to spark collaboration and catalyze rapid other through these challenging times.” CS 2005 Teri Odom, Chemistry, Northwestern responses through immediate funding opportunities University, was elected to the American Academy Research by CS 2016 Maiken Mikkelsen, Physics, for highly promising research projects directly of Arts and Sciences. Academy members are Duke University, has demonstrated new ways to addressing the current pandemic or future world leaders in the arts and sciences, business, boost the brightness of fluorescent markers using pandemics. Seven proposals were funded. (By late philanthropy, and public affairs. plasmonic silver nanocubes, enhancing the ability 2020, all teams had made progress, with a few of low-cost diagnostic tests to detect viruses and notable attainments. The team led by Rommie other biomarkers. Amaro, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University May of California, San Diego, published a paper in ACS Three Cottrell Scholars were elected members of Central Science on molecular motions of spike the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of June protein and its impact on binding ACE2, its cellular their distinguished and continuing achievements in RCSA welcomed two outstanding teacher-scholars receptor. These findings will enable teammates to original research: CS 1999 Scott J. Miller, Chemistry, to its Cottrell Scholar community: Ann-Christin design and test inhibitors of spike-ACE2 binding. Yale University; CS 1999 Dmitri Basov, Physics, Pöppler, Chemistry, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Neil Kelleher, Chemistry, Northwestern University, Columbia University; and CS 2000 and 2018 Nobel Würzburg, and Günther Thiele, Chemistry, Freie secured add-on funding for his project researching a laureate Donna Strickland, Physics, University of new technology to assess COVID-19 serosurveillance. Waterloo, Canada. Robbyn Anand, Chemistry, Iowa State University, has Nearly 100 Cottrell Scholars met online May 26 achieved uniform and reproducible electrokinetic and 29 to launch RCSA’s new series of virtual concentration for lateral flow assay strips to enhance meetings, called Cottrell Scholar Conversations. In sensitivity. The current test strip is targeted to SARS- the absence of an in-person conference this year, CoV-2, and can readily be adapted for any other viral the meetings were designed to keep the Cottrell antigen in the future.) Scholar community engaged through dialogue and Five Cottrell Scholars were honored by the Dreyfus problem-solving around issues of importance to Foundation as 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher teacher-scholars. The first meetings, on the topic of Scholars: CS 2020 Frank Leibfarth, Chemistry, Ann-Christin Pöppler Günther Thiele 17 Universität Berlin’s Institute for Chemistry and State University, says it helped launch his early Astrophysics Fellow Brian Metzger, Physics, Biochemistry. Based on RCSA’s Cottrell Scholar research on diffused ionized gas in nearby galaxies Columbia University, were among 31 rising stars Award, the Fulbright-Cottrell Award recognizes at a time when few people were working on it, in science named Blavatnik Award finalists. junior faculty in chemistry, physics, and astronomy enabling him to become established in the field. CS 2002 Jané Kondev, Physics, Brandeis for integrating top-notch research with creative Discussions about peer instruction helped shape University, was named a 2020 Simons teaching. Recipients take part in RCSA’s Cottrell his approach to education. Nancy Makri, professor Investigator. Scholar conferences and meetings, and may of chemistry and physics, University of Illinois at collaborate on team projects. Urbana-Champaign, said give-and-take with her RCSA’s Scialog initiatives received kudos as Cottrell Scholar colleagues has been invaluable effective ways for philanthropy to spark needed A year after three astronomers met at a Scialog: to her as an educator, helping students make the discoveries at a July webinar on clean energy Time Domain Astrophysics conference, sponsored connections they need to understand her research. storage hosted by the Climate Leadership by RCSA and the Heising-Simons Foundation, Mark Bussell, professor of chemistry at Western Initiative and the Science Philanthropy Alliance. the research project they envisioned won a Washington University, said being a part of the “We need new people in the field, and they need nearly $300,000 grant from the National Science RCSA community has offered distinct benefits at funding they can’t get from federal sources,” said Foundation. “This award would not have happened different stages of his career. Nobel Laureate M. Stanley Whittingham, inventor without Scialog,” said Jason Nordhaus, Physics, of the first rechargeable lithium ion battery and Rochester Institute of Technology National Facilitator at Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage, Technical Institute for the Deaf. As the project’s July sponsored by RCSA and the Alfred P. Sloan principal investigator, he will be collaborating with More than 150 teacher-scholars gathered online Foundation. Scialog is “The kind of thing that Philip Muirhead, Astronomy, Boston University, July 8-10 for the 26th Annual Cottrell Scholar may get totally new ideas into the pipeline.” and Maria Drout, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Conference, centered on the theme of “Challenges University of Toronto. The project will study binary and Opportunities with Online Education.” Keynote star evolution through an observational survey of speaker and CS 2007 Jordan Gerton, Physics & galactic star clusters and will offer much-needed Astronomy, University of Utah, said the move to summer research opportunities for deaf and hard- online education is an opportunity for meaningful of-hearing students at RIT. change, urging faculty to “disrupt convention and lead efforts to remake STEM education into a more In a series of interviews with grantees, three equitable and inclusive enterprise.” members of RCSA’s first class of Cottrell Scholars recalled the long-term impact of their 1994 awards. CS 2012 Will Dichtel, Chemistry, Northwestern René Walterbos, former head of the Department of University, CS 2015 Luis Campos, Chemistry, Astronomy and professor emeritus at New Mexico Columbia University, and Scialog: Time Domain M. Stanley Whittingham

18 CS 2014 Shannon Boettcher, Chemistry, University bits and devised ways to cool and detect motion As part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, of Oregon, published a paper in Science, “Accelerating of tangible objects at their quantum ground state, RCSA awarded more than $800,000 in 13 Cottrell water dissociation in bipolar membranes and for bringing mechanical vibrations of solids to the Fellowships to support the work of postdocs affected electrocatalysis.” toolbox of quantum physicists. by institutional hiring freezes. Four of these awards were funded through a grant from the National CS 1994 Herbert Fertig, Physics, Indiana University RCSA announced a new initiative to begin in Science Foundation. “This stopgap funding has at Bloomington, published an Editors’ Suggestion 2021. Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging, sponsored been so valuable,” said CS 2009 Maura McLaughlin, in Physical Review Letters. This work is an by RCSA and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Physics, West Virginia University. As an example, unanticipated outcome from his 2019 Cottrell SEED with support from the Frederick Gardner Cottrell support from the fellowship enabled McLaughlin’s award project. Foundation, will address challenges in enhancing postdoc Dustin Madison to co-author four high-resolution imaging of tissues to support basic Two members of the RCSA community were named publications, submit a first-author paper, continue science and the treatment of disease. 2020 Laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards his research, and secure several faculty interviews. for Young Scientists. CS 2012 and 2018 FRED Award Scialog: Molecules Come to Life Fellow Pankaj CS 2015 (and Scialog: Microbiome, Neurobiology and winner Will Dichtel, Chemistry, Northwestern Mehta, Physics, Boston University, and colleagues Disease Facilitator) Emily Balskus, Chemistry and University, was noted for “pioneering methods published a paper in Physical Review Letters Chemical Biology, Harvard University, was named to create novel, porous materials from simple, selected as an Editors’ Suggestion and featured a 2020 NSF Alan T. Waterman Awardee. The award carbon-based building blocks.” Scialog: Time in Physics. The paper presents a model of how recognizes researchers age 40 or younger who Domain Astrophysics Fellow Brian Metzger, Physics, resource dynamics dictate species diversity for demonstrate exceptional individual achievements Columbia University, was noted for “settling a long- some types of ecosystems. Pankaj said: “We in scientific or engineering research. “Balskus has standing question about the origin of gold and other have gotten interested in trying to formulate a opened up novel ways to explore and exploit the heavy elements in the universe.” ‘statistical mechanics of ecology’—in part due to chemistry and biology of microbes that live in our the success of our Scialog project.” CS 2014 Cindy Regal, Physics, University of Colorado bodies and how they are linked to our health. And Boulder, was named the 2020 recipient of RCSA’s we’re already seeing the potential impact,” the NSF Cottrell Frontiers in Research Excellence and August said in announcing the award. Discovery (FRED) Award. The $250,000 award Two Cottrell Scholars were selected 2020 American RCSA made Cottrell Instrumentation Supplements recognizes and rewards innovative research Chemical Society Fellows for outstanding of $141,000 for new instrumentation (or for updates that could transform an area of science. Regal’s achievements in and contributions to science, to existing equipment) needed to continue research research program to date has focused on quantum the profession, and ACS: CS 2009 Penny Beuning, and learning at 11 primarily undergraduate information and quantum optics. She has both Chemistry, Northeastern University, and CS 1994 institutions. The emergency initiative follows contributed to the development of atomic quantum George Shields, Chemistry, Furman University. listening sessions with Cottrell Scholars on the

19 challenges of reopening research laboratories and RCSA announced six winners of its competitive Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, were programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery) among the authors of an editorial in ACS Central expressed concerns about the near- and long-term Awards for 2020. Recipients are: Science arguing for the importance of diversifying support for research activities at their institutions CS 2010 Richard Brutchey, University of Southern the chemistry community. due to the devastating financial impact of the crisis. California; CS 1994 Mark Bussell, Western In partnership with the U.S. Department of CS 1994 Mark Bussell said the supplemental funding Washington University; CS 2012 Seth Herzon, Agriculture, RCSA announced a new initiative, allowed him to purchase components for a gas flow Yale University; CS 2002 Hanadi Sleiman, McGill Scialog: Mitigating Zoonotic Threats. Set to begin in system (for in situ sample treatment) permanently University; CS 2003 Brian Stoltz, California Institute 2021, it aims to address the global threat to human installed adjacent to a new Raman microscope, of Technology; and CS 1999 Ann West, University of health from animal-borne infectious diseases. instead of having to shuttle components from his Oklahoma. This year’s recipients represent different lab, a 5-minute walk away. He called it “a real win- subfields within chemistry, such as materials, win situation for me and Western Washington biochemistry, organic chemistry and catalysis. September University in general!” Nearly 50 teacher-scholars met online September Daniel Rabinovich, professor of chemistry at the 15 and 18 to discuss “Maintaining Student Engagement Scialog: Time Domain Astrophysics Fellow University of North Carolina at Charlotte, will During COVID-19,” the latest in RCSA’s series of Jackie Faherty, Department of Astrophysics, receive the 2021 American Chemical Society Cottrell Scholar Conversations. Participants said American Museum of Natural History, CS 2019 National Award for Research at an Undergraduate that while they and their students face multiple Kerstin Perez, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Institution, sponsored by RCSA. Dan is a previous challenges with online or hybrid models of Technology, and CS 2014 and FRED Award recipient RCSA awardee who received Cottrell College Science education, some online tools and techniques Cindy Regal, Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Award funding in 1998 and 2001. present opportunities for better and more equitable are three of the women scientists to be celebrated Two Cottrell Scholars were American Chemical teaching. in a multicity public art series called FINDINGS. Society 2021 national award winners. CS 2004 The project is supported by the Heising-Simons Eight members of RCSA’s community were named Paul Chirik, Chemistry, Princeton University, will Foundation, co-sponsor of our Scialog TDA and 2020 American Physical Society Fellows. Cottrell receive the Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Signatures of Life in the Universe initiatives. Scholars include: CS 2009 Kathy Aidala, Physics, Research in Catalysis. CS 2006 Melanie Sanford, Mount Holyoke College; CS 2009 Robert McDermott, CS 1999 Mike Schatz, Physics, Georgia Tech, Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and colleagues published a cover article in receive the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry. CS 2014 Joe Subotnik, Chemistry, University of Physical Review Letters titled “Capturing Turbulent CS 2012 (and FRED Award recipient) Sarah Reisman, Pennsylvania; and CS 2013 , Physics, Dynamics and Statistics in Experiments with Unstable Xiaodong Xu Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, California University of Washington. Scialog Fellows include: Periodic Orbits.” Institute of Technology, and CS 2008 Tehshik Yoon, Molecules Come to Life Fellows Ajay Gopinathan,

20 Physics, University of California, Merced, and Physics, Garching, Germany, was awarded a share optically polarized helium-3, and extraordinary Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Physics, University of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for his work with engagement and education of undergraduate of Oregon; and Chemical Machinery of the Cell Andrea Ghez, UCLA, to discover a “supermassive students.” The physics department at Hamilton Fellow Kandice Tanner, Cell Biology and Physiology, compact object at the center of our galaxy.” College is a previous recipient of an RCSA National Cancer Institute. Also named was a 2003 Genzel and Ghez shared the Nobel Prize with Department Development Award. “I have been Cottrell College Science Award recipient, Roger Penrose, Oxford University. Genzel was part blessed with a departmental culture of research Scott Franklin, Physics, Rochester Institute of of the German collaboration that helped launch the which was fostered and encouraged by the Technology. RCSA-supported Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) on Department Development Award,” Jones said. Mount Graham in Arizona, as well as a 1982 RCSA “That was a short period a long time ago, but it RCSA’s Senior Program Director Richard Wiener was grant recipient for a far-infrared and submillimeter has had an outsized impact on our culture, and named a 2020 American Physical Society Fellow “for laser for astronomical spectroscopy. Reinhard is the will for a long time to come.” leadership on creating Scialog, a unique and highly 41st RCSA awardee to become a Nobel laureate. effective platform for networking early-career Rommie Amaro, one of RCSA’s COVID-19 Initiative scientists and seeding high risk interdisciplinary Gordon Jones, Physics, Hamilton College, was awardees and a Facilitator of Scialog: Chemical research to make advances in fundamental science awarded the American Physical Society’s 2021 Machinery of the Cell, was featured in a New with the long-term goal of solving important global Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an York Times article, “The Coronavirus Unveiled.” challenges.” Wiener joined RCSA in 2006. Undergraduate Institution. The award is sponsored Accompanied by visualizations of the coronavirus by RCSA. Jones was cited for “outstanding created by her lab, it highlighted the work Rommie In a paper published in ACS Science, COVID-19 contributions to fundamental neutron physics, and her team are doing using simulations of the Initiative awardee and Scialog: Chemical Machinery development of neutron polarizers using virus to try to understand how it infects cells. of the Cell Facilitator Rommie Amaro described how she used molecular dynamics simulations to model Meeting at Scialog: Time Domain Astrophysics SARS-CoV-2 spike glycan shield, illustrating how it sparked the idea, and an RCSA team award provided modulates conformational dynamics and binding support for the initial proof-of-concept study to host protein ACE2. This computational effort by three researchers: Scialog Fellows Sukanya laid the groundwork for further experiments on Chakrabarti, Physics & Astronomy, Rochester potential inhibitors. Institute of Technology, Daniel Huber, Astronomy, University of Hawaii, and Robyn Sanderson, Physics October & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania. The team won new National Science Foundation (NSF) Reinhard Genzel, University of California, Berkeley, funding that will allow them to apply this method and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Reinhard Genzel 21 to a much larger sample, mapping distances across our research with representatives from funding the galaxy, and to involve local undergraduates in Genzel agencies like the Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group gives an astronomical research program. Scialog participants invaluable opportunities to become more than a name on a grant application,” More than 60 researchers with a wide variety he said. Gant and his collaborator Daniel Starr of expertise in chemistry, biology, and related received the award to study a protein complex fields explored ideas for collaborative research known as LINC, which enables cells to sense and at the third meeting of Scialog: Chemical respond to mechanical forces. Machinery of the Cell, held virtually on October 9. Cosponsored by RCSA and the Gordon and Eight years after brainstorming the idea for a Betty Moore Foundation, the initiative aims to Chad Risko, Scott Shaw and Susan Odom collaborative project at the second Scialog: Solar develop interdisciplinary projects that advance Energy Conversion conference, Gordana Dukovic, understanding of chemical machinery and Fellow Chad Risko, Chemistry, University of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, and reactions in the intact, living cell. Kentucky, is the principal investigator on the Sean Elliott, Chemistry, Boston University, published project. CS 2016 Scott Shaw, Chemistry, University their results in the prestigious journal Proceedings of Iowa, and Scialog AES Fellow Susan Odom, of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper Chemistry, University of Kentucky, are co PIs. describes a system in which semiconductor Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Iowa State nanocrystals are coupled to an enzyme to catalyze

University, and Sara Mason, University of Iowa, are CO2 reduction. “Scialog really made this project also co-PIs. The team credits their multiple RCSA happen,” Elliott said. connections for sowing the seeds of the project. CS 2019 Jonathan Foley, Chemistry, William Paterson University, published a paper on the role of cavity losses on nonadiabatic couplings and dynamics in Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell meeting polaritonic chemistry in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Three members of RCSA’s community of scientists were among an interdisciplinary team awarded G.W. Gant Luxton, Molecular and Cellular Biology, a National Science Foundation grant to advance University of California, Davis, said being a discovery and design of energy storage materials. Fellow at Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell CS 2018 and Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage played an important role in being named an Allen Distinguished Investigator. “Being able to talk about Gordana Dukovic and Sean Elliott 22 CS 2017 Monika Schleier Smith, Physics, Stanford collaboration between Amaro, Ronit Freeman and University, was named a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Carlos Simmerling funded by RCSA builds on this She is an experimental physicist advancing work to leverage the insights and convert them into understanding of many-particle quantum systems. lead compounds to inhibit viral infection. Scialog: Time Domain Astrophysics Fellows November Daniel Huber, Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell Fellow and Melissa Ness, Astronomy, Columbia University, Judith Su, Optical Sciences and Biomedical posted a paper on arXiv presenting a new, data- Engineering, University of Arizona, received a $1.82 driven technique to infer stellar properties from Rae Robertson-Anderson million award from the National Institute of General light curves. The research stems from their 2018 Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Scialog Team Award. Undergraduate researcher CS 2010 and Scialog: Molecules Come to Life Fellow Health, to advance her research in ultrasensitive Maryum Sayeed is the first author on the paper. Rae Robertson-Anderson, Physics, University of optical sensing. San Diego, said her career is a great example of Ten members of RCSA’s scientific community were how early seed funding can create opportunity over Ongoing collaborations involving two Cottrell elected Fellows of the American Association for time. For her, early-career discoveries led to cycles Scholars in chemistry from SUNY Stony Brook the Advancement of Science in recognition for of new funding, new avenues of research, and new University, CS 2018 Jarrod French, and CS 2001 important contributions to STEM disciplines! For collaborations. Carlos Simmerling, have resulted in three papers chemistry: CS 2012 William Dichtel, Northwestern on the group’s research into photoreceptor proteins University; CS 2003 Nicola Pohl, Indiana University; Three Scialog Fellows were among 20 innovative activated by blue light. CS 1997 Daniel Raftery, University of Washington; early-career researchers named 2020 Packard CS 2012 Sara Skrabalak, Indiana University; CS 2009 CS 2012, 2017 FRED Award winner and Scialog: Fellows for Science and Engineering—Scialog: Rory Waterman, University of Vermont; and 2000 Solar Energy Conversion Fellow Sara Skrabalak was Chemical Machinery of the Cell Fellow Research Innovation Award recipient Peidong Yang, appointed Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry of Materials Keriann Backus, Chemistry, University of California, University of California, Berkeley. For engineering, and ACS Materials Letters. Los Angeles; Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage Scialog: Solar Energy Conversion Fellow Michael Fellow Kimberly See, Chemistry and Chemical The team led by Rommie Amaro, one of RCSA’s Chabinyc, University of California, Santa Barbara, Engineering, California institute of Technology; COVID-19 Initiative awardees and a Facilitator of and Scialog: Negative Emissions Science Facilitator and Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage and Scialog: Scialog: Chemical Machinery of the Cell, has received Ah-Hung (Alissa) Park, Columbia University. For Negative Emissions Science Fellow Haotian Wang, the Association for Computing Machinery’s first physics, CS 1995 Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Chemistry, Rice University. Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Institute, and Eric Mazur, Harvard University, keynote Computing-Based COVID-19 Research. Ongoing speaker for Scialog and Cottrell Scholar conferences.

23 The inaugural meeting of Scialog: Negative and member of the House of Lords, spoke about Emissions Science initiative was held virtually the urgent need to decarbonize the global economy, November 5-6. More than 50 Fellows—from and the potential economic impact. chemistry, engineering, materials science, physics, and related disciplines—were guided by a group December of nine Facilitators in brainstorming ideas to The Cottrell Emerging Scholars Program, which advance fundamental science in the design of received one of four $25,000 Cottrell Scholar novel approaches for removing and utilizing or Collaborative awards from RCSA in 2019, is sequestering greenhouse gases, and for making harnessing the power of the Cottrell Scholar those technologies globally scalable. Keynote network to enhance faculty diversity in the physical Keivan Stassun Carlos Meriles speaker Julia King of the University of Cambridge, sciences at both research-intensive universities Chair of the United Kingdom’s Carbon Trust and primarily undergraduate institutions. and nanoscale sensing. He said the funding Project lead is CS 2006 Keivan Stassun, Astronomy, enabled his lab to do more mentoring and training Vanderbilt University, collaborating with: CS 2006 to help bring new people at the minority-serving Darren Johnson, Chemistry, University of Oregon; City College of New York into the scientific life. CS 2006 , Physics, University of Adam Leibovich Scialog: Solar Energy Conversion Fellow Pittsburgh; and CS 2018 , Chemistry, Grace Stokes Ray Schaak, Chemistry, Pennsylvania State Santa Clara University. University, was named recipient of the Akron CS 2004 Paul J. Chirik, Chemistry, Princeton Section Award presented by the American Chemical University, received the 2020 Linus Pauling Medal Society Akron Section. Schaak, whose research Award presented by the American Chemical Society focuses on the development of new synthetic tools Oregon, Portland, and Puget Sound Local Sections. for catalysis, photonics, and energy conversion and Chirik is recognized for his work to discover new storage, has also served on RCSA’s Cottrell Scholar catalysts based on transition metals abundant in Selection Committee. Earth’s crust and is editor in chief of the ACS journal Organometallics. In Memoriam CS 2007 Carlos Meriles, recipient of RCSA’s first Kathleen Eckert, RCSA Senior Program Assistant FRED Award in 2016, said his award has done more Susan Odom, Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage Fellow than help him make scientific advances opening Scialog: Negative Emissions Science awardees new routes to quantum information processing 24 2020 Financial Summary Program Expenses, Including Grants & Awards 87% General & Administrative Costs 13% Total Expenses $8.3 million

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