August 28, 2009

Munira Khalil receives NSF CAREER Award

Assistant Professor Munira Khalil has received a 2009 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER Program is a Foundation-wide program that “offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.”

Khalil received her NSF CAREER Award for her research proposal, “CAREER: Correlation of coupled electronic and nuclear motions in biological photoreceptors using femtosecond multidimensional spectroscopies.”

For more information about the NSF CAREER Award program, please visit the program website.

For more information about Munira Khalil and her research program, please visit her faculty page.