Deadline is January 31, 2012.
The Recent Alumni Award recognizes alumni who have graduated within the last 15 years and have shown outstanding professional growth. Award recipients exemplify MSU’s commitment to the land-grant mission of teaching, research and outreach through their dedication to professional, community and/or MSU service.
Anyone may submit a nomination.
The Board of Directors of the CNS Alumni Association selects the recipient and presents the award at the annual alumni awards held in conjunction with Science University each April. Nominations not selected to receive the award are held for three years and automatically re-nominated each year.
2010 Recipient
Daniel Mindiola
B.S. Chemistry ’96Daniel Mindiola is a professor of inorganic chemistry at Indiana University. During his undergraduate study, Mindiola performed undergraduate research with Kim Dunbar and was inspired to study inorganic chemistry at MIT with Christopher Cummins. He received his doctoral degree from MIT in 2000 and then spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty at Indiana University as an assistant professor in 2002. Together with his research students, Mindiola discovered how to prepare low coordinate, multiple-bond complexes of inexpensive and versatile metals like titanium, vanadium and niobium that allows for their routine use in group-transfer chemistry. Applications based on this discovery could lead to cleaner and cheaper petroleum-based fuels.
Mindiola is extremely dedicated to his profession. The students he has mentored are sought by the best scientists in the world. He is an ardent promoter of diversity in the sciences through the mentoring of minority students. He founded the Indiana University chapter of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers and serves as their faculty advisor. He also serves on the American Chemical Society Minority Affairs Committee and the Fellowship Affairs Committee.
His success for a young scientist has been remarkable. This has been reflected by his publication track record and awards he received. In the eight years since he joined the faculty at Indiana University, he and his students have contributed 58 articles and reviews, and is work has been cited 845 times with 241 of these appearing in papers published in 2009.
Mindiola has been recognized with many national and international awards including: the National Fresenius Award; Dalton Transactions US Lectureship Award; the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Camille & Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award; the Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award; the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award; and the NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Past Recipients of the Recent Alumni Award
2003 – Carl Bruch, Physics
2005 – Wakeshi Benson, Chemistry ’96
2008 – Brian Langley, Chemistry ’99
2010 – Dan Mindiola, Chemistry ’96
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