Maroney Wins UMass-Amherst Samuel Conti Research Fellowship

Bio-inorganic professor Michael Maroney has been awarded a prestigious Samuel Conti Research Fellowship for the 2005-2006 academic year. The award recognized excellence in research, and provides a cash award and a year's leave of absence to pursue research activities. Prof. Maroney joins Profs. Vincent Rotello (2003) and Lila Gierasch (2002) as recent Chemistry Department recipients of this award. (Prof. Gierasch is also a joint faculty member with the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology).

For more about work in the Maroney group, see the recent news of his major NIH grant for "Structural Parameters Involved in Metal Recognition."

(5/16/2005)