BU Chemistry welcomes our newest faculty member, Malika Jeffries-EL

Malika Jeffries, EL
Malika Jeffries, EL

Chemistry is pleased to welcome our newest faculty member. On January 4, Malika Jeffries-EL joined the Chemistry Department as an Associate Professor with tenure. Professor Jeffries-EL comes to BU from Iowa State University, and her research focuses on the development of organic semi-conductor materials. She received B.A. degrees in Chemistry and Africana Studies at Wellesley College, and her Ph.D in Chemistry from The George Washington University. After spending one year at Smith College as a Mendenhall Fellow, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow under the direction of Professor Richard D. McCullough at Carnegie Mellon University.

Professor Jeffries-EL’s 30+ publications have garnered over 2,000 citations, and she has given more than 80 lectures in the United States and abroad. She has won numerous awards, including the 3M Untenured Faculty Award (2008), the Emerald Honors for Most Promising Minority Scientist (2008), the Lloyd Ferguson Award from the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (2009), a NSF CAREER award (2009), the ISU-College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Diversity Award (2011), the ACS Women Chemist Committee Rising Star Award (2012), and the Iota Sigma Pi Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award.

 

For more information about her interests and research, please visit her faculty webpage at www.bu.edu/chemistry/jeffries-el-3.