University of California, Santa Barbara Scholar Honored by the American Chemical Society

Alison Butler, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and associate vice chancellor for academic personnel at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been selected to receive the Alfred Bader Award in Bio-Inorganic or Bio-Organic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. Dr. Butler will receive a cash award and deliver a keynote address at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans.

The award “recognizes significant accomplishments at the interface between biology and organic or inorganic chemistry, particularly applications of chemistry’s fundamental principles and experimental methodology to areas of biological significance.” Specifically, Professor Butler was chosen for her work “elucidating the bioinorganic chemistry of the marine environment.”

A graduate of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Professor Butler received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. She was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the California Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara in 1986.