Two researchers receive prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER awards

Two rising stars on the Florida State University faculty are recipients of highly competitive National Science Foundation research grants totaling nearly $1.6 million.

M. Elizabeth Stroupe, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, has won a five-year NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award, also known as a CAREER Award, totaling $997,000 to advance her research into what the “Structure and Function of Sulfite Reductase Teach About Fundamental Biology.”

Kenneth L. Knappenberger Jr., an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has received the same award in the amount of $600,000 to advance his research into “Structure-Specific Nanoscale Dynamics Studied by Nonlinear and Magneto-optical Spectroscopy.”