FIVE HIRES FROM PREVIOUS TRACK-1 RECEIVED NSF-FUNDED CAREER AWARDS

Congratulations to five KY NSF EPSCoR hires from our last track-1 award – Powering the Kentucky Bioeconomy for a Sustainable Future (2014-2019) who have earned the prestigious Career award from NSF. 

CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. 

Jeremy Van Cleve

Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, Biology

CAREER: Genetic architecture and the construction of complex social traits

Hui Wang

Associate Professor, University of Louisville, Mechanical Engineering
 
CAREER: Understanding Interfaces in Sulfide-based All-Solid-State Na Batteries

Farshid Ramezanipour

Associate Professor, University of Louisville, Inorganic Chemistry

CAREER: Rational Design of Defect-Ordered Architectures in Oxygen-Deficient Perovskites to Control the Oxygen-Evolution Activity

Jonathan Pham

Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, Materials Engineering

CAREER: Wetting and dynamics on soft and swollen polymeric surfaces

NOPPADON SATHITSUKSANOH

Associate Professor, University of Louisville, Chemical Engineering

CAREER: Detailing the mechanism of plasma-mediated oxidative depolymerization of plastics to chemicals by metal-organic frameworks in liquid water at ambient temperature