The institute’s Faculty Fellowship Program will provide support for Frank Leibfarth, associate professor in the department of chemistry, whose research includes expanding options for recycling.

Chemist Alex Zhukhovitskiy has won an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. DOE awarded $110 million for groundbreaking research by 83 early career scientists this year.

Carolina chemists may have a solution to the country’s plastic problem by “upcycling” plastic trash to tougher, stronger material.

Frank Leibfarth, assistant professor of chemistry in UNC’s College of Arts & Sciences, has won two prestigious awards for early-career scientists. In only one week, he has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a Cottrell Scholar Award for 2020.