For release: May 21, 2007

Contacts: 
Mei Hong, Materials Chemistry and Biomolecular Materials, 515-294-352
Breehan Gerleman Lucchesi , Public Affairs, 515-294-9750

AMES LABORATORY’S HONG
RECIEVES ISU RESEARCH AWARD

AMES, Iowa—Mei Hong, associate at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has received a 2007 Iowa State University Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Research.

The ISU Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Research recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in research at the mid-career stage.  Hong will accept the award at the university convocation on Sept. 10.

Hong, the first ISU John D. Corbett Professor of Chemistry, has been an ISU chemistry faculty member since 1999 and an Ames Laboratory associate since March.  Her research interests center on the development and application of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate the structure and dynamics of membrane proteins and insoluble fibrous proteins.

Hong received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of California at Berkeley.  Before coming to ISU, Hong was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a research professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 

Hong has received a number of awards for her work, including a Beckman Young Investigator award in 1999, a Research Corporation Innovation award in 2000, a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2001, and the American Chemical Society Pure Chemistry Award in 2003.  She was named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in 2002.

Ames Laboratory, celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2007, is operated for the Department of Energy by Iowa State University. The Lab conducts research into various areas of national concern, including the synthesis and study of new materials, energy resources, high-speed computer design, and environmental cleanup and restoration.

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