Jen Heemstra has been named a 2021 Rising Star by the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committeethe group of faculty that agree to advise a student’s rese... More. The Rising Star Awards recognize exceptional early-to-mid-career female-identified individuals from all areas of chemistry. Candidates are typically no more than 15 years from receipt of their terminal scientific degree and have demonstrated outstanding promise for contributions to their respective fields.
Awardees have the opportunity to present contributions at a WCC-sponsored symposium at the spring ACS national meeting. The award symposium serves to highlight the accomplishments of the award winners by providing a venue to inform researchers and other professionals of the status of current work, ideas, and thought; to enable networking with other practitioners; and to acquaint scientists with other active members of the research community. To facilitate participation, awardees receive a $1,000 stipendrefers to the funding offered to a student in support of the... More to cover spring national meeting travel expenses.
Congratulations, Jen!