Awards and Research
Congratulations to faculty members in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry who have received awards and held prestigious positions.
Year | Faculty Member | Award |
20262023 | Trushar Patel | Chair and Executive Committee Member, Awards Committee, Biophysical Society of Canada |
20262023 | Trushar Patel | Early Career Committee, Biophysical Society, USA |
2025 | Jessica Willi | Banting Discovery Award |
2025 | Stacey Wetmore | Canadian Association of Theoretical Chemists (CATC) Honorary Lecturer |
2025 | Stacey Wetmore | Graduate Student Mentorship Award |
2025 | Stacey Wetmore | Clara Benson Award, Canadian Society for Chemistry |
2025 | Trushar Patel | King Charles III Cornation Medal |
20252022 | Trushar Patel | Chair, Communications and Publications Committee, Canadian Society of Molecular Biosciences |
20252022 | Paul Hayes | Director of Subject Divisions, Canadian Society for Chemistry |
20252019 | Paul Hayes | Tier 1 Board of Governors Research Chair in Organometallic Chemistry |
2025 | Michael Gerken | Distinguished Service Award ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry |
2024 | Marc Roussel | 2024 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner |
2024 | Wayne Lippa | 2024 Board of Governors Teaching Chair |
2024 | Trushar Patel | Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, FRSB (United Kingdom) |
2023 | Stacey Wetmore | Tier 1 Canada Research Chair – Computational Chemistry |
2023 | Trushar Patel | Tier 2 Canada Research Chair – RNA and Protein Biophysics |
2023 | Paul Hayes | Specially Appointed Professor (Hokkaido University) |
20232017 | Stacey Wetmore | Tier 1 Board of Governors Research Chair in Origins and Explorations |
2023 | Stacey Wetmore | CFI – John R. Evans Leaders Fund |
2023 | Borries Demeler | Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand |
2023 | Michael Gerken | American Chemical Society Fellow |
2023 | Trushar Patel | Speaker Research Award UofL |
20232015 | Paul Hayes | Associate Editor of RSC Advances |
2022 | Laura Keffer-Wilkes | Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Scholar Award |
2022 | Trushar Patel | New Investigator Award from the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences |
2022 | Trushar Patel | Young Investigator of the Biophysical Society of Canada |
2022 | Trushar Patel | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC (United Kingdom) |
2022 | Stacey Wetmore | Elected to the Board of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists |
2021 | Michael Gerken | Elected Chair of the Division of Fluorine Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ASC) |
2021 | Susan Findlay | Excellence in Teaching Award |
2021 | Stacey Wetmore | Ingrid Speaker Research Award |
2021 | Stacey Wetmore | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry |
2021 | Paul Hayes | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitational Fellowship (Long-term) |
2019 | Borries Demeler | T. Svedberg Prize 2019 - AUC 2019 New Zealand |
2019 | Greg Patenaude | ULSU Teaching Excellence Award (only person to win it two times) |
2019 | Stacey Wetmore | Co-Editor in Chief, Canadian Journal of Chemistry |
2018 | Borries Demeler | Fulbright Specialist Fellow, Helsinki, Finland |
2018 | Borries Demeler | Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand |
2018 | Borries Demeler | 2025 Canada 150 Research Chair for Biophysics |
2018 | Stacey Wetmore | Chemical Institute of Canada Fellowship |
20172006 | Stacey Wetmore | Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Computational Chemistry |
2016 | Paul Hayes | Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry |
2016 | Stacey Wetmore | Australian Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (AATACC) International Fellow |
2013 | Greg Patenaude | ULSU Teaching Excellence Award |
2012 | Roman Przybylski | American Oil Chemists' Society - |
2011 | Roman Przybylski | Alberta Food for Health Award - |
2010 | Paul Hayes | Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations - |
2009 | Paul Hayes | Alberta Innovates New Faculty Award |