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  • May 1, 2008

  • Chemistry's Patricia Thiel receives Iota Sigma Pi honor

    Patricia Thiel, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, has received the highest honor bestowed by Iota Sigma Pi, the national honor society of women in chemistry.

    This award , named the National Honorary Member Award, is "for exceptional and significant achievement in chemistry or an allied field of such nature as to merit international recognition." It is given to only one person every three years.

    An expert in the chemistry and physics of surfaces, Thiel has made pioneering contributions in three main areas: surfaces of quasicrystals, interactions of water molecules with metal surfaces, and the evolution and growth mechanisms of metal nanostructures.

    She has served on the Committee of Visitors for the Division of Chemistry of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and has been a member of the advisory council of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). At Iowa State, Thiel formerly served as director of the Materials Chemistry Program of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and as chair of the Department of Chemistry.

    Her numerous awards and honors include the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the ISU Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research and the DOE's Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials Chemistry.

    She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Vacuum Society and the Institute of Physics.

 Pat Thiel in office

Patricia Thiel
Air Force Aerospace Studies - Anthropology - Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology - Chemistry - Computer Science
Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology - Economics - English - Genetics, Development & Cell Biology - Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication - History - Mathematics - Military Science - Music - Naval Science
Philosophy & Religious Studies - Physics and Astronomy - Political Science - Psychology - Sociology - Statistics - World Languages & Cultures
African American Studies - American Indian Studies - Biological/Premedical Illustration - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Classical Studies - Communication Studies - Criminal Justice Studies - Environmental Science - Environmental Studies - Interdisciplinary Studies
International Studies - Liberal Studies - Linguistics - Software Engineering - Speech Communication - U.S. Latino/a Studies - Women's Studies