UMSL - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Please join us in congratulating Lol Barton on receiving a 2026 Chancellor’s Faculty Retiree of the Year Award!

This prestigious award honors retirees who remain actively engaged in service to the University of Missouri–St. Louis, their profession, and their community. Lol’s continued dedication and impact make him a truly deserving recipient.

Congratulations on this well-earned honor, Lol!

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Sanford A. Asher on January 16. Sanford earned his BA degree from UMSL in 1971 before going on to receive his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He later served as a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh.

In recognition of his outstanding accomplishments and contributions to science, Sanford gave the inaugural Distinguished Alumni Lecture of our department in 1988 and received a UMSL Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004. He will be remembered with great admiration and fondness by the many students, colleagues, and friends whose lives he touched.

Meet Carol Welch! She is the recipient of the Outstanding MS Student Degree Award. 🏆 Congratulations, Carol! 🎉👍

And here is Heba Abid, the winner of the Rudolph E. K. Winter Graduate Scholarship. 🏆Congratulations, Heba! 🎉

And more Graduate Student Awards! 🎉 Meet Cristina Sinobas Pereria (Thomas Jones Memorial Fellowship, Graduate Student Research Accomplishment Award, Ceil DeGutis Award), and Mark Eissler (Thomas Jones Fellowship, Jack L. Coombs Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award). Congratulations! 🏆👍

And Graduate Awards season! 🏆 Meet Mark Eissler (left) and Sri Harsha Mamillapalli (right), the recipients of the Jack L. Coombs Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulations! 🎉

Meet undergraduate student Abrar Al-Ebadi, the recipient of the William and Erna Cooke Scholarship! 🏆 Congratulations, Abrar! 🎉

Meet undergraduate student Mariya Abdulhamid, the winner of the Eric Brunngraber Scholarship. Congratulations, Mariya! 🎉🏆

And here is Ethan Agren, the recipient of the American Chemical Society Award for Outstanding Performance in Introductory Chemistry! 🏆 Congratulations, Ethan! 🎉👍

Meet Allison Ryerson, who received an Undergraduate Research Symposium Excellence Award! 🎉👍 Congratulations, Allison!