Election to fellowship is extremely prestigious because it is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the society’s total membership.
David Perry joins a very distinguished group of researchers at The University of Akron who have previously been names APS Fellows, including Drs. Ed Lim, Stephen Cheng, Daryl Reneker, Ernst von Meerwall, Shiqing Wang, Robert Weiss and Alexel Sokolov.
David Perry joined the Department of Chemistry as associate professor in 1987. He was elected department chair in 1999 and served in that capacity until 2005. He has more than 60 publications in the area of dynamics and energy redistribution in vibrationally excited molecules. Over the years, he has received more than $1 million in funding from federal agencies such as NSF, DOE and NASA. And David Perry is recognized on campus as an outstanding teaching and mentor. Congratulations David!