#  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](https://research.fas.harvard.edu/deans-competitive-fund-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](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/people/jarad-mason), [Kang-Kuen Ni](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/people/kang-kuen-ni), and [Suyang Xu](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/people/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"

Sort      ![Three black and white headshots of the three award winners](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/chemistry/files/deans_competitive_fund_2020.jpg?itok=xXzO80kj) 

 

 

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

 

 





 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Mason ](/news-and-events-faculty/mason)
- [ Ni ](/news-and-events-faculty/ni)
- [ Xu ](/news-and-events-faculty/xu)
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