Principal Investigators & Senior Personnel
Scott K Shaw
The University of Iowa
Scott is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Iowa. His research group focuses on improving measurment science at chemical interfaces, especially as they apply to materials, energy, and environmental sciences. Scott teaches several analytical chemistry, and has a passion for showing students how the lab instruments work. He also founded the Rural Scholars Research Program, which recruits first year undergraduates from rural areas to participate in genuine, laboratory reserach experiences.
Sara E. Mason
University of Iowa
Prof. Mason leads a research group at the University of Iowa that uses theory and modeling to understand structure, properties, and reactivity of materials. She teaches a rage of courses from high-enrollment freshmen chemistry to graduate-level quantum mechanics. She is currently the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Chemistry at Iowa. and is also a Counciloe of the Iowa Local Section of the American Chemical Soceity.
Susan Odom
University of Kentucky
Susan Odom is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky. Her research involves exploration and characterization of new battery materials with a focus on liquid energy storage systems. Prof. Odom teaches organic chemistry lecture at the 200 level. She serves on the University Appeals Board and is the chair of the Chemistry Departments Academic Integrity Committee. She is also the faculty mentor of UKs Energy Club.
David Eaton
University of Kentucky
Dave is a Research Program Manager at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research. His work focuses on advanced carbon materials for structural and electrochemical applications, especially in the areas of utilization of biomass and waste carbon materials. He has a decade and a half of experience in industrial R and D, developing products and processes for various industries. He supervises and mentors graduate and undergraduate student, and works extensively with UK's diversity and inclusion programs.
Craig Teague
Cornell College
Craig Teague is Professor of Chemistry at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. He and his students are interested in energy-related research such as liquid-based energy storage and carbon dioxide capture using both experimental and computational methods. This work includes studying structure and function of ionic liquids. He teaches physical chemistry and a range of other courses, and he is active in Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) and the POGIL Project as well as physical chemistry education communities.
Chad Risko
University of Kentucky
Chad Risko is an Associate Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky (UK) and an affiliated faculty member of the UK Center for Applied Energy Research. Chad received his PhD at the Georgia Institute of Technology working with Professor Jean-Luc Brédas, and undertook postdoctoral research with Professors Mark Ratner and Tobin Marks at Northwestern University. Chad’s research is centered in computational materials chemistry and aims to understand how molecular design ultimately impacts materials properties.
 Yang/me.png)
