University of Iowa Professor Honored for Her Work on Mineral Dust

Vicki H. Grassian, the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Chemistry and director of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute at the University of Iowa, has been named as the recipient of the 2012 Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology by the American Chemical Society. Professor Grassian is being honored for her work on research on mineral dust aerosol and its impact on the environment.

Dr. Grassian is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany. She earned a master’s degree at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley.