Jesse Gordon (Nocera Lab) is selected as a Sustainable Futures Initiative Grant Program Winner

Jesse Gordon (Nocera Lab) has won an Early Career Postdoctoral (ECP) Faculty Bridge Grant from the 2024 Sustainable Futures Initiative Grant Program.

Gordon's Project Title: Sustainable Strategies for Radical Amination Catalysis

“Equally important to my research vision is the role of sustainability in my teaching. The growing global emphasis on sustainability underscores the need to weave its principles into the chemistry curriculum. I hope to inspire students to see themselves as agents of change who can address global challenges through chemistry.”

The ACS Campaign for a Sustainable Future aims to advance chemistry innovations to address the challenges articulated in the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Launched in 2022, this multifaceted initiative aims to create a lasting impact on how we conduct research, how we teach chemistry, and how we collaborate globally. One of the key initiatives of the Campaign is the Sustainable Futures Initiative Grant Program (SFIGP), which provides catalytic funding for early and mid-career faculty interested in developing a research and teaching portfolio that contributes directly to developing transformative chemistries that address U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

The ECP Grant, one of two grants supported by the SFIGP, focuses on the first few years of chemistry and engineering faculty members’ careers—often the most challenging and critical years for developing a robust research program that attracts grant funding, provides holistic training and mentorship to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and contributes to the culture of the department and the professional community. To that end, the seven recipients of the ECP Grant will receive support for a postdoctoral fellow’s salary, benefits, and travel for two years, allowing the grant recipients to launch a productive research group as a new faculty member.

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