Sara Skrabalak Named Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awardee

Professor Sara Skrabalak has been named a 2014 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awardee. The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained within the first five years of their appointment as independent researchers, and a demonstrated commitment to education, signaling the promise of continuing outstanding contributions to both research and teaching.

Sara Skrabalak received her B.A. in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002. She then attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joining Professor Ken Suslick's laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry, with an emphasis on materials, from UIUC in the fall of 2006 and was the recipient of the T. S. Piper Thesis Research Award for her dissertation entitled: Porous Materials Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis. She then did postdoctoral work at the University of Washington-Seattle beginning in 2007 with Professors Younan Xia and Xingde Li. She is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington.

Her research group is developing new synthetic methods to solid materials with defined shapes and architecture then studying the structure-function relationships of prepared materials as they are applied to energy applications. Professor Skrabalak has been recognized as a Cottrell Scholar, Sloan Fellow, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar and as the 2014 recipient of the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry.