EIF Board Member receives ACS Award

Kristin Bowman-James, University of Kansas Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, DIrector of Kansas EPSCoR, and member of the EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation (EIF) Board of Directors, was the 2021 recipient of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Inorganic Chemistry. This is Bowman-James’ first major national award, and she is only the second woman to receive the award since its inception in 1962.

The award is for Bowman-James’ work in expanding the structural concepts of transition metal coordination chemistry to the coordination of negatively charged ions, known as anions. She has succeeded in providing insight to anion coordination from a transition metal coordination perspective, possibly leading to a better understanding of the chemistry of anion interactions with surrounding environments.

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