I-APS Awards

Nomination Procedures and Deadlines


I-APS Award in Photochemistry

2008 Peter C. Ford, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Polychromophoric Compounds for Photogeneration of Bioactive Agents"
2007 Joseph T. Hupp, Northwestern University
"Nanostructured Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Beyond Nanoparticulate Cells"
2006 Daniel G. Nocera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Powering the Planet: The Challenge for Science, Chemistry and Photochemistry in the 21st Century"
2005 Devens Gust, Arizona State University
"Molecule-Based Switches and Logic Gates: Using Photochromic Molecules to Control Photoinduced Electron Transfer"
2004 Michael R. Wasielewski, Northwestern University
"Photoinitiation and Control of Charge Transport: From Molecules to Materials"
2003 Frederick D. Lewis, Northwestern University
"Reflections on Excited State Reactivity: Entropy, Enthalpy, and Conformation"
2002 Paul F. Barbara, University of Texas at Austin
"The Photochemistry, Structure, and Dynamics of Delocalized Charges in Water"
2001 Michael A.J. Rodgers, Bowling Green State University
"Redox Reactions in Complexes of Metalloporphyrins with Native Proteins and Synthetic Peptides: A Photodynamic Study"
2000 Peter J. Wagner, Michigan State University
"A Decade of Closure and Surprises"
1999 Douglas C. Neckers, Bowling Green State University
"The Photochemical Sciences"
1998 David G. Whitten, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Photoinduced Electron Transfer Fragmentations Revisited: Medium Effects and Amplification through Tandem Cofragmentation"
1997 Thomas J. Meyer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"MLCT Excited States"
1996 Graham R. Fleming, University of California at Berkeley
"Photosynthetic Light Harvesting"
1995 Samir Farid, Eastman-Kodak Company
"Bimolecular Photoinduced Electron Transfer"
1994 Josef Michl, University of Colorado at Boulder
"What Does Organosilane Photophysics Tell Us About the Nature of Sigma Bonding?"
1993 Juan C. (Tito) Scaiano, University of Ottawa
"Connecting the Free Radical, Carbene and Carbocation Manifolds through Electron and Proton Transfer Reactions"
1992 Gerhard L. Closs, University of Chicago
"Triplet and Singlet Energy Transfer in Bifunctional Organic Molecules"
1991 Nicholas J. Turro, Columbia University
"Photochemistry in Nanoscopic Reactors"
1988 C. Bradley Moore, Northwestern University

I-APS Young Investigator Award

2008 Elizabeth Harbron, William and Mary College
"Fluorescence Modulation in Photochromic Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) Derivatives"
2007 Torsten Fiebig, Boston College
- for his work on electron transport in DNA using ultrafast spectroscopy.
2006 Mohammad A. Omary, University of North Texas
 
2005 Igor V. Alabugin, Florida State University
"Photochemistry of Acetylenes and Enediynes: From MO Crossings to DNA Cleavage"
2004 Leonard E. MacGillivray, University of Iowa
"Linear Templates: Tools for Directing the [2 + 2] Photodimerization in the Solid State"
2003 Dario M. Bassani, Université Bordeaux
"Supramolecular Photochemistry: From Molecular Electronics to Self-Assembled Photoactive Architectures"

Gerhard Closs Student Award

2008 Smita Dayal
Case Western Reserve University; Clemens Burda, Supervisor
"Quantum Dots-based Resonance Energy Transfer to Photodynamic Therapy Agents"
2006 Ryan C. White
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Malcolm Forbes, Supervisor
"TREPR, CIDNP, and LFP Studies Of Radicals Formed From The Oxidation Of Diglycine By Water-Soluble Anthraquinone Derivatives and Their Use As Probes For The Aqueous Microenvironment"
2005 Lakshimi S. Kaanumalle
Tulane University; V. Ramamurthy, Supervisor
"Photochemistry in Water-Soluble Synthetic Capsules and Dendritic Reaction Cavities"
2004 Susan E. Bailey
University of California, Los Angeles; Jeffrey I. Zinc, Supervisor
"A Quantitative Model of Intervalence Electron Transfer Addressing Mode Symmetry, Coordinate Dependent Coupling and a Coupled Bridge State"
2003 Jayaraman Sivaguru
Tulane University; V. Ramamurthy, Supervisor
"Asymmetric Induction During Photoisomerization of Diphenylcyclopropane Derivatives: A Study in Isotropic and Confined Media"
2002 Tracy L. Morkin
McMaster University; William J. Leigh, Supervisor
"Photochemistry of alpha-Silylcarbene Precursors and Substituent Effects on the Reactivity of Silicon-Carbon Double Bonds"
2001 Mazdak Khajehpour
University of Missouri-Columbia; John F. Kauffman, Supervisor
"Investigating the Contribution of the Solvent Quadrupole Moment to the Solvent Reorganization Energy"
2000 Christine M. R. Clancy
University of North Carolina; Malcolm D. E. Forbes, Supervisor
"Time-Resolved Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Studies of Photoionization of Tyrosine Anion"
1998 Karen E. Torraca
University of Florida; Lisa McElwee-White, Supervisor
"Photooxidation of Metal Carbynes: Radical Reactivity of 17-Electron Cationic Complexes"
1997 Michele K. Eggleston
Purdue University; David R. McMillin, Supervisor
"Sequence Dependent Binding Using DNA-Hairpins"
1997 Gautam Prakash
University of Maryland; Daniel E. Falvey, Supervisor
"Model Studies into the Mechanism of the (6-4) Photoproduct Photolyase"
1996 Elisabeth A. Morlino
Bowling Green State University; Michael A.J. Rodgers, Supervisor
"Photodissociation of Nitrosyl-Metalloporphyrins: An Excited State Study"
1995 Paula J. Wedge
Dalhousie University; James A. Pincock, Supervisor
"The Photochemistry of Conformationally Rigid Benzylic Esters: 2,2-Dimethyl-1-indanyl Acetates and Pivalates"
1994 Michelle L. Absi
Northwestern University; Joseph T. Hupp, Supervisor
"Direct Observation of Intramolecular Electron Transfer Kinetics in Mixed-Valent Metal Complexes via Spectral and Photochemical Methods"
1993 Jeffrey W. Leon
University of Rochester; David G. Whitten, Supervisor
"Photo-SET Induced Carbon-Carbon Bond Cleavage of Monomeric and Polymeric 1,2-Diamines in Solution and in the Solid State"

I-APS Fellows

2006 Sally Mallory & Frank B. Mallory
University of Pennsylvania & Bryn Mawr College
2005 J. Kerry Thomas
University of Notre Dame
2005 David I. Schuster
New York University
2002 Donald R. Arnold
Dalhousie University
2000 Anthony M. Trozzolo
University of Notre Dame
1999 Glenn A. Crosby
Washington State University
1996 Eduardo A. Lissi
Universidade de Santiago, Chile
1996 R. Srinivasan
UVTech Associates
1995 Michael Kasha
Florida State University
1995 Harry A. Morrison
Purdue University
1994 Otto P. Strausz
University of Alberta
1994 N. C. Yang
University of Chicago
1994 George S. Hammond

G. Cilento Award

2008 Carla Santos de Oliveira
Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Distributions and Photochemical Mechanisms of CV and MB in Reverse Micelles and in HeLa Cells"
2006 Franco M. Cabrerizo
Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
"Photophysics And Photosensitizing Properties Of Pterins In Aqueous Solution"
2005 Alvaro Delgadillo
Potifica Universidad Catolica de Chile
"Photophysics of Condensed Heterocyclic Ruthenium Complexes in Solution and Anchored to Nanocrystalline TiO2"
2004 Sahori B. Yamaki
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
"Spectral Broadening of Selectively Attached Pyren-1-yl Groups and the Dynamics of Relaxation Processes in Ethylene-co-Vinyl Acetate Copolymers"
2002 Claudio D. Borsarelli
Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, Argentina
"Singlet Molecular Oxygen Quenching Ability of Carotenoids in a Reverse-Micelle Membrane Mimetic System"
2001 Ezequiel Wolcan
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
"Photochemical & Photophysical Properties of fac-Re(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes: A Comparison of Monomer and Polymer Species with -Re(CO)3Phen Chromophores"
2000 Ana Paola P. Cione
Universidad de São Paolo, Brazil; Fergus Gessner, Supervisor
"Photochemistry and Photophysics of Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Clays"

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