{"69217":{"#nid":"69217","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two Georgia Tech Faculty Named Fellows by the American Chemical Society","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Chemical Society (ACS) has named two Georgia\nTech professors as fellows for 2011. Paul Houston, dean of the College of\nSciences and professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and C. David\nSherrill, professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry were added to\nthe ACS Fellows list in August for their work in chemistry as well as their\ncontributions to the society.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cACS is especially\nproud to honor these chemists during the 2011 International Year of Chemistry,\u201d\nsaid ACS President Nancy B. Jackson.\u0026nbsp;\n\u201cThe work they are doing will improve all of our lives as they unleash\nthe power of chemistry to solve global challenges like providing clean water,\nsufficient food, new energy sources and cures for disease.\u0026nbsp; But that\u2019s not all. They\u2019re also\norganizing scientific conferences for their peers, doing outreach with scouts\nand schools, and being mentors to the next generation of scientists.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ACS Fellows Program was created in December 2008 \u201cto recognize members of ACS for outstanding\nachievements in and contributions to Science, the Profession, and the Society.\u201d\nFellows come from academe, industry\nand government.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year the ACS named 213 distinguished scientists who have demonstrated outstanding\naccomplishments in chemistry and made important contributions to ACS, the\nworld\u2019s largest scientific society. The 2011 Fellows will be recognized at an\ninduction ceremony on August 29 during the Society\u2019s 242nd\u0026nbsp;National\nMeeting \u0026amp; Exposition in Denver.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am honored that these\ncontributions are appreciated by my colleagues,\u201d said Houston, who arrived at\nTech in 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHouston\u2019s research involves\nfiguring out how molecules that are involved in combustion or atmospheric\nchemistry react after they absorb light.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn the case of combustion, the\nstudies give us information about what intermediate species might be involved in\nthe burning of fuel,\u201d said Houston. \u201cIn the case of atmospheric chemistry, our\nresults help to understand how ozone in the stratosphere is created and\ndestroyed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur work is motivated by\nscientific curiosity but made possible by the technological advances in tools\nlike lasers and charge coupled device optical elements.\u0026nbsp; New technologies\nmake new science possible, and that is why it is exciting to be a scientist at\na technological institute like Georgia Tech,\u201d he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore taking the\ndean\u2019s position at Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Sciences, Houston had\u0026nbsp; a distinguished career at Cornell\nUniversity where he served as Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and\nSciences as well as Chair of the Department of Chemistry. He was elected a\nmember of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and elected into\nthe American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2002. He received\nthe Herbert P. Broida Prize from the American Physical Society in 2001. He\nreceived his doctorate in the chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of\nTechnology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDavid Sherrill has\nbeen at Georgia Tech since 1999.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u0027s\u0026nbsp;an honor to be recognized by such a venerable\ninstitution as ACS,\u201d said Sherrill.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESherrill\u2019s research\nlies in the realm of computational quantum chemistry, which mixes chemistry,\nphysics, mathematics and computational science. It involves developing new\ntheoretical approaches to describe molecules, executing them as efficient\ncomputer programs and applying them to study challenging problems in chemistry.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are especially interested in\nnon-bonded interactions between molecules,\u0026nbsp;because these interactions\ngovern everything from biomolecular structure\u0026nbsp;to drug docking,\u201d he said.\n\u0026nbsp;\u201cMy group is developing much more efficient methods to\u0026nbsp;compute and\nanalyze these interactions. We are using the new techniques to\u0026nbsp;understand\ndrug binding and DNA base-pair stacking.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESherrill is\ncurrently an associate editor for the Journal of Chemical Physics. He was\nelected as a fellow in the American Physical Society in 2010. He was named a\nVasser Woolley Faculty Fellow from 2008-2010. He received the Class of 1940 W.\nHoward Ector Outstanding Teacher Award in 2006 and the CAREER award from the\nNational Science Foundation in 2001.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESherrill has been active with the\nACS through the years. He has served as a councilor for the Georgia section of\nACS as well as a coordinator for National Chemistry Week and chair of the\nsubdivision of theoretical chemistry.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPrevious honorees\nfrom Georgia Tech include Bridgette Barry, Rigoberto Hernandez and Paul Wine in\n2010. Jean-Luc Bredas , Mostafa El-Sayed, Elsa Reichmanis and Laren Tolbert\nwere named as ACS Fellows in 2009.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe American Chemical Society (ACS) has named two Georgia\nTech professors as fellows for 2011. Paul Houston, dean of the College of\nSciences and professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and C. David\nSherrill, professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry were added to\nthe ACS Fellows list in August for their work in chemistry as well as their\ncontributions to the society.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Designation honors Dean Paul Houston, of the College of Sciences, and David Sherrill, of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry."}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2011-08-08 09:22:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:55","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-08-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"69215":{"id":"69215","type":"image","title":"Paul Houston Named Fellow by the American Chemical Society","body":null,"created":"1449177239","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:59","changed":"1475894606","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:26","alt":"Paul Houston Named Fellow by the American Chemical Society","file":{"fid":"193397","name":"08c4201-p1-004.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/08c4201-p1-004_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/08c4201-p1-004_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":930230,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/08c4201-p1-004_0.jpg?itok=0rYfemoY"}}},"media_ids":["69215"],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"743","name":"acs"},{"id":"5477","name":"American Chemical Society"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"13933","name":"David Sherrill"},{"id":"13932","name":"Paul Houston"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Terraso\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Sciences\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-1393\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@cos.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}