STONY BROOK, N.Y., November 10, 2008 — Kathlyn A. Parker, a Professor of Organic Chemistry at Stony Brook University, has been named the recipient of the Francis P. Garvan – John M. Olin Award of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Professor Parker is being honored for leadership in the chemistry community and for innovative research in synthetic organic chemistry.
Kathlyn A. Parker
The Garvan – Olin Award is given annually to recognize distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists who are citizens of the United States. It is the third oldest national award given by the ACS.
Professor Parker is known for her research on the synthesis of natural products related to pharmaceuticals and also for the development of laboratory methods for synthesis. She has published more than 100 articles, papers, and reviews and presented invited lectures at international conferences, symposia, universities, and companies. She has also been active in the national movement to enrich graduate education. She conceived the Academic Chemistry Enhancement at Stony Brook (ACES) project which was sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. This led to Stony Brook’s participation in the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, a multi-university project of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Professor Parker’s accomplishments have been honored by a number of fellowships and awards. She has been a Fellow of both the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She has held a Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award and both the Career Advancement Award and the Visiting Professorship for Women from the National Science Foundation. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Parker recently served as the Chair of the Organic Division of the ACS.
Previous winners of the Garvan – Olin Award include distinguished scientists from academic, industrial, and government laboratories. Among these are Gertrude B. Elion, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Isabella L. Karle and Mildred Cohn, winners of the National Medal of Science. Joanna S. Fowler, a Senior Chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an adjunct faculty member at Stony Brook, received the Garvan – Olin Award in 1994.
The announcement of this year’s recipient was made on Monday, September 8 in Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly magazine of the ACS.
Chemical & Engineering News announcement
http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/86/i36/html/8636awards1.html
