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Kathryn Knowles Receives 2020 NSF CAREER Award
Congratulations to Kathryn Knowles, UR Chemistry Assistant Professor, who has been named as a recipient of a 2020 Faculty Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her proposal entitled, “Combining Main Group and Transition Metals to Tune the Electronic Structure, Photophysics, and Photocatalytic Activity of Spinel Oxide Nanocrystals.”
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