Kansas State University Chemistry Department

Lateef Syed receives Fateley-Hammaker Collaboration in Research Award

Lateef Syed, 4th year Ph.D. student in Prof. Jun Li’s analytical / nanotechnology group, has been selected to receive the Chemistry Department’s 2011 Fateley-Hammaker Collaboration in Research Award.

This award was established in 2010 through generous lead contributions from Dr. Charles Chaffin and Dr. Timothy Marshall, who were students in the research group led by Professor Bob Hammaker and the late Professor Bill Fateley. Charles and Tim subsequently founded a successful company, AeroSurvey, Inc., applying many of the concepts that they learned during their graduate work at Kansas State.

Because their careers benefitted greatly from the collaborative nature of the Fateley-Hammaker group, Drs. Chaffin and Marshall wished to recognize graduate students involved in collaborative activities and to encourage others to take advantage of such opportunities.

Mr. Syed’s thesis research is broadly involved with the development of nanotechnology-based biosensors, and has been conducted in collaboration with Profs. Duy Hua, Chris Culbertson and Ken Klabunde (Chemistry), with Prof. Annelise Nguyen in (KSU Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology Department), and with Prof. Judy Wu (University of Kansas Physics Department).