Dr James Allan Cowan

2085 Evans Laboratory
88 W Eighteenth Ave
Columbus, OH 43210

Phone: (614) 292-2703

Email: cowan.2@osu.edu

 

Current OSU Appointment

Professor, Chemistry

 

Degrees

1983B.S., University of Glasgow, Chemistry

1986Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Chemistry

1988Postdoctoral, California Institute of Technology, Chemistry

 

Honors

1983 - 1986 Benefactors' Scholar.

1986 Research Fellow.

1986 - 1988 NATO Research Fellow.

1987 Member.

1992 - 1994 Fellow.

1992 - 1997 NSF Young Investigator Award.

1994 - 1999 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar.

1995 - 1996 Visiting Professor.

1996 Visiting Professor.

1997 Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award.

1998 Fellow.

2002 Krebs Lecture. University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.

2004 Chemistry/Biology Program Lecture. University Of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.

2007 University Distinguished Scholar Award.

2009 Fellow, American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellows' inaugural class. American Chemical Society.
Subject: True excellence in contributions to the chemical enterprise coupled with distinctive service to ACS or to the broader world of chemistry.

 

Positions

1988 - 1993Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, Chemistry. Columbus, OH, United States.

1993 - 1996Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, Chemistry. Columbus, OH, United States.