For release: April 4 , 2007

Contacts: 
Ed Yeung, Chemical and Biological Sciences, 515-294-8062
Kerry Gibson, Public Affairs, 515-294-1405

YEUNG NAMED SOCIETY
FOR APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY FELLOW

AMES, IA -- Edward Yeung, director of U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory’s Chemical and Biological Sciences program, was recently named a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. The Society selects members as Fellows in recognition for “service to the Society and exceptional contributions to spectroscopy.”

Yeung, who is also an Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of Liberals Arts and Sciences and the first Robert Allen Wright professor, will be formally recognized during the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies meeting to be held in Memphis, Tenn. in October.

Yeung received his A.B. in chemistry from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. Since then, he has been a chemist and later a program director at Ames Laboratory and a member of the chemistry faculty at Iowa State University. His research interests span both spectroscopy and chromatography. He has published in areas such as nonlinear spectroscopy, laser-based detectors for chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, trace gas monitoring, single-cell and single-molecule analysis, DNA sequencing, and data treatment procedures in chemical measurements.

He is an Associate Editor of Analytical Chemistry. He served on the editorial advisory board of Progress in Analytical Spectroscopy, Journal of Capillary Electrophoresis, Mikrochimica Acta, Spectrochimica Acta Part A, Journal of Microcolumn Separations, Electrophoresis, Journal of High Resolution Chromatography, Chromatographia and Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods.

He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, was appointed Honorary Professor of Zhengzhou University, Zhongshan University, Xiamen University and Hunan University, and was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, four separate R&D 100 Awards, the Lester W. Strock Award, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, the L. S. Palmer Award, the ACS Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry, the Frederick Conference on Capillary Electrophoresis Award, the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Analytical Chemistry, the ACS Award in Chromatography, the International Prize of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Separation Science, the Ralph N. Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, the Golay Award, and the Chicago Chromatography Discussion Group Merit Award.

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 energy resources, high-speed computer design, environmental cleanup and restoration, and the synthesis and study of new materials.

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