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Shaffer Professor of Chemistry Appointed

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, associate professor of chemistry, has been appointed as the Shaffer Professor of Chemistry at Penn State.

Hammes-Schiffer has joined the University faculty for the fall 2000 semester.  She has been an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame since 1995.

"She is an excellent lecturer, dedicated teacher, and dynamic young scientist with an international reputation as an outstanding theoretical chemist," said Andrew Ewing, holder of the J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Natural Sciences, professor and head of the Department of Chemistry, and adjunct professor of neuroscience and anatomy.  "Her work is an excellent example of how modern theoretical chemistry can make significant contributions to important chemical and molecular problems."

The Shaffer Faculty Development Professorship in Science, established by Lionel B. Shaffer, '40 B.S. Premed, was created to provide financial support and encouragement for faculty starting their academic careers in the Eberly College of Science.  In addition to providing recognition of a faculty member's current achievements, the professorship was designed to demonstrate a belief in the recipient's potential to become an eminent faculty member.

Hammes-Schiffer earned her bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, at Princeton University in 1988 and her doctoral degree at Stanford University in 1993.

She conducted postdoctoral research at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1993 to 1995.  Before that, she was a graduate research assistant at Stanford University from 1988 to 1993.  She also conducted undergraduate research while at Princeton University.

She has earned numerous awards, among them the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 1999, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1998, and a Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1996.  She also received a NSF Graduate Fellowship in chemistry from 1988 to 1991 and the American Institute of Chemists Student Award in 1988.
 
 

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