Dr. Christian Hilty, a newly hired assistant professor of chemistry at Texas A&M University, has been recognized with a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award for 2006.
Established in 1979 by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the $50,000 award is designed to provide new faculty working in chemistry, biochemistry or chemical engineering with vital research support as they begin their first full-time academic appointments. Awards are open to all chemistry, biochemistry or chemical engineering doctoral degree-granting institutions in the United States and are based on evidence that the nominee has the potential to produce an independent body of scientific scholarship of outstanding quality and will make significant contributions to overall education in the chemical sciences.
Hilty, one of only 12 recipients nationwide of the highly competitive award, was selected on the basis of his early accomplishments and future potential in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and hyper-polarization techniques. He is the second Texas A&M chemist to merit the prestigious honor in the past three years.
To learn more about Dr. Christian Hilty's award, go to http://www.science.tamu.edu/story3.asp?storyID=523
To learn more about the research being carried out in Dr. Christian Hilty's group, go to http://www.chem.tamu.edu/faculty/faculty_detail.php?ID=1423.