Central Faculty Receives Recognition
Five Central College faculty members received awards this spring for their outstanding leadership in teaching, service and scholarship.
Five Central College faculty members received awards this spring for their outstanding leadership in teaching, service and scholarship.
Central College is hosting a free, hands-on STEM Visit Day for high school students Friday, June 18.
Jay Wackerly, associate professor of chemistry at Central, has been awarded the Organic Syntheses, Inc. Grant for Summer Research. Amy Philavanh, Class of 2022 and a biochemistry major from Ankeny, Iowa, will help Wackerly conduct research this summer.
A Central College professor and four students have had their research on a byproduct of indigo dye featured in RSC Advances, a peer-reviewed journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Central College has received a $145,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to replace and upgrade its nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer.
Central College is hosting a hands-on STEM Camp Visit Day for high school students.
Central College will offer two special remote courses in the summer of 2020 about the COVID-19 pandemic — one for incoming first-year students and another for current students.
Central College student Katelyn Wang has been named a 2020 Goldwater Scholar in a prestigious national competition that recognizes undergraduates for outstanding achievements in the fields of mathematics, science and engineering.
Jay Wackerly, associate professor of chemistry at Central College, was the primary author of research published in “Chemistry — A European Journal” earlier this year.
Central College professors Paul Weihe and Cathy Haustein will present “Flint, Michigan, and the Water Supply: How Safe is Our Own Drinking Water?” as part of the Faculty Lecture Series, Tuesday, Feb. 11.
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