Washington, D.C. -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected Georgetown University assistant professor of chemistry Sarah L. Stoll as a 2005 recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award. Stoll is one of five current junior faculty members from the University’s Chemistry Department to have received this award.
"We are very proud of Professor Stoll's achievement and the national prestige that it brings to the department of chemistry," said Jane McAuliffe, dean of Georgetown College. "This honor is yet another indication of the high caliber of the faculty of which this program may justly boast."
The CAREER program is one of NSF’s most prestigious awards for new faculty members. Through these grants, it recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of teachers-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.
"In the chemistry community, the CAREER award is a mark of promise and a sign of support by peers in the field,” Stoll said.
Stoll’s selection was made on the basis of her creative plans for career-development that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the University’s mission. For consideration by NSF, Stoll submitted a 15-page proposal detailing her plans for career-development titled, “Lanthanide Chalcogenide Based Nanoparticles.”
Stoll’s research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of magnetic semiconductors. Through NSF funding, she hopes to develop her research, mentor graduate students and provide research opportunities for undergraduates. In addition, Stoll plans to offer high school students in the Washington, D.C. area laboratory experiences through the American Chemical Society's Project SEED, a project designed to encourage economically disadvantaged high school students to pursue careers in the chemical sciences. The $525,000 grant will make possible these and various other research projects Stoll has proposed over the next five years.
"The [CAREER] award really makes a huge difference in what you can do research-wise," Stoll said. "It provides you with the money necessary to actually do the research, support students, obtain necessary materials, attend conferences and travel."
Sarah Stoll is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Georgetown University, where she has served on the faculty since 2002. She has been the Principal Investigator (PI) for six other NSF grants and the co-PI on two others. Throughout her career, Stoll has had the privilege of mentoring a combined total of more than 20 undergraduate and graduate students and authoring more than a dozen publications. Prior to her arrival at Georgetown, Stoll conducted research and served on the faculty at several other institutions, among them Helsinki University of Technology, Oberlin College, Oxford University, Harvard University and Rice University.
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