Geoffrey Coates, a Cornell assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been awarded a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, designed to support young researchers.
The fellowship will support research in Coates' laboratory directed toward the discovery of catalysts for the synthesis of biodegradable polymers from bio-renewable resources, such as carbon dioxide.
Each year the Packard Foundation invites 50 universities to submit two nominations each, and from this list the foundation awards 24 fellowships.
Coates earned a doctoral degree in organic chemistry from Stanford University in 1994. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1997, after postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology.
Last year he was selected by Technology Review magazine as one of 100 young innovators under the age of 35 "who exemplify the spirit of innovation in science, technology, business and the arts."
Coates also received a four-year, $328,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program grant last year from the National Science Foundation.
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation was created in 1964 by David Packard and Lucile Salter Packard. In 1988 the foundation established the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering to allow the nation's most promising young professors to pursue their science and engineering research with few funding restrictions. The fellowships are aimed at researchers working in areas that are not generously funded by government and other agencies.
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