Prof. Lisa McElwee-White
Crow Professor and Chair, University of Florida
Lisa McElwee-White is the Crow Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida. She received a B.S. degree from the Univ. of Kansas and completed her Ph.D. at Caltech. After postdoctoral work at Stanford, she joined the Stanford faculty as an Asst. Prof. in 1985. She moved to UF as an Assoc. Prof. in 1993 and was promoted to Professor in 1997. Following a term as Assoc. Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, she returned to the Department of Chemistry, where she served as Chair 2017-2024. Her research interests center around the applications of organometallic chemistry in materials science. She is the author of 189 publications and has presented more than 250 invited lectures. Her Editorial Board service includes ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Organometallics, and J. Org. Chem. She has served as Chair of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry and was named an ACS Fellow in 2010. Her recent awards include the Garvan-Olin Medal, Gassman Award, Southern Chemists Award, Herty Medal, Florida Award and Stone Award.