Steven C. Zimmerman, also a professor of chemistry, was one of 10 winners of an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award. Each year, Cope awards are given in honor of especially creative and noteworthy accomplishments in organic chemistry. He earned a doctorate in 1983 from Columbia University in New York, and a bachelor's degree in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Charles F. Zukoski IV, a professor of chemical engineering, won the Ralph K. Iler Award in the Chemistry of Colloidal Materials. Colloidal materials are made up of very small, insoluble, nondiffusible particles larger than molecules but small enough so that they remain suspended in a fluid medium without settling to the bottom.
Colloids have applications in such areas as pigments, magnetic recording media and ceramics.