Chemistry prof wins NSF early career award

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<p>Nice award for an FSU chemistry faculty member…</p>

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A Florida State University researcher whose work involves designing novel magnetic materials has won a coveted Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).</p>

<p>Michael Shatruk is an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry. The award marks his second major successful NSF grant since September 2009.</p>

<p>“Although they are drastically different projects,” Shatruk said, “magnetism is the unifying theme.”</p>

<p>While it is highly unusual for a young professor to win two NSF grants at the same time, Shatruk explained that his two grants come from separate NSF divisions. His newer grant, worth $500,000 over five years, comes from the Division of Materials Research, while his earlier grant, worth $382,000 over three years, comes from the Division of Chemistry.</p>

<p>“Professor Shatruk has had a tremendous positive impact on research and teaching in our department,” said Joseph Schlenoff, chairman of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Florida State’s Mandelkern Professor of Polymer Science. “His leadership in materials science has stimulated collaborative activities across campus. We are delighted, but not surprised, that he has had this much success so early in his career.”</p>

<p>Shatruk, who joined the Florida State faculty in fall 2007 after postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell and Texas A&M, is an experimentalist.

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