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Three CCB faculty earn awards from the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship

May 11, 2020
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For faculty pursuing innovative and high-impact research

 

On May 11, Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced the 2020 winners of the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship, an internal program for researchers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to pursue promising or original research directions.

This year, Jarad Mason, Kang-Kuen Ni, and Suyang Xu, three junior faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, counted among the winners. Their proposed projects are listed below.

Jarad Mason: "Metal-Organic Barocaloric Materials for Solid-State Cooling"

Kang-Kuen Ni: “Building Single Molecules for Quantum Bits"

Suyang Xu: “Electron Quantum Self-Rotation for Micro-Sized Harvesters of Ambient Electromagnetic (Em) Energy"

 

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From left: Jarad Mason, Kang-Kuen Ni, and Suyang Xu, three recipients of the 2020 Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship

 

See also: Faculty, Prizes & Awards, Mason, Ni, Xu