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Riggs-Gelasco Receives Dreyfus Grant August 31, 1998 
Dr. Pamela Riggs-Gelasco, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry was awarded a $20,000 Faculty Start-Up Grant for
Undergraduate Institutions. She began her career at the College of
Charleston in August 1998 after completing a post-doctoral appointment in
the lab of Dr. Joanne Stubbe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She received her Ph.D.from University of Michigan in 1995 and her B.S.
from Albion College in 1989.The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Faculty Start-up Grant Program provides funding for new faculty members at non-Ph.D.-granting institutions at the start of their research and teaching activities. While most talented young faculty apply for and are able to secure external research support, in most cases such support does not ordinarily become available before the end of the first year of appointment. Thus, a key feature of the award is an unrestricted research grant of $20,000 that is awarded in September of the year the new faculty member formally begins the first-year appointment. In general, ten awards are made each year based on institutional nominations. Only faculty members who are due to start their first full-time tenure-track appointments in the year of nomination are eligible for awards. Institutions that grant a bachelor's or master's degree, but not a doctorate, in chemistry, chemical engineering or biochemistry may submit nominations. Nominees are normally expected to have no more than three years of postdoctoral experience.
Riggs-Gelasco is interested in metal cluster assembly in enyzmes, x-ray
absorption spectroscopy, EPR spectroscopy, and rapid kinetic techniques.
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