Dugald John MacDougall, a 2006 graduate of Notre Dame’s Chemistry PhD Program, was awarded the 2005 Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award and a 2005 Rohm and Haas Outstanding Graduate Student Award for his research into the assembly of metal-organic frameworks derived from molecular group 1 complexes.

Dugald MacDougall began his doctoral studies at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK), but transferred to the University of Notre Dame in 2002 when his supervisor, Professor Kenneth W. Henderson, took a new appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Notre Dame. Under the continued tutelage of Prof. Henderson, Dugald has forged new synthetic strategies for the rational preparation of highly ordered metal-organic coordination polymers.

The quality of this work was recognized by his peers when he received the Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award for his oral presentation at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Crystallographic Association. Further recognition was attained when he was selected for a Rohm and Haas Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

Following his graduation in January 2006, Dugald was appointed as a post-doctoral research associate at the University of California, Davis.