John Gilbertson (Chemistry) recently received a Single Investigator Cottrell College Science Award for $44,965 from the Research Corporation to continue his work on developing environmentally friendly small molecules that mimic the biologically important enzyme nitrogenase. These target molecules are important in studying the production of ammonia (a necessary nutrient in growing crops that is responsible for feeding more than 40 percent of the world's population).

Workers are still plugging away on the addition to the Chemistry Building on the Western Washington University campus.

For more information on this project, check out "The Shape of Things to Come" from Facilities Management.

Photos by Michael Leese | WWU intern