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Alison Fout is a Professor and Associate Head of Graduate Studies at Texas A&M University, specializing in Bioinorganic Chemistry. Her research program emphasizes the synthesis of ligand architectures that support transition metal complexes, which are capable of mediating unusual transformations for biological and energy-related problems. Fout's core interests lie within catalytic, synthetic inorganic, and bioinorganic chemistry, especially in using synthesis, reactivity, and detailed mechanistic studies to investigate the activation of strong bonds in sustainable catalysts. Fout has received numerous awards for her contributions to the field, including the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award in 2019 and the American Chemical Society Emergent Investigator Award in Bioinorganic Chemistry in 2018. She had previously been a Mary Fieser NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and has held various honors including the Dalton Lecturer position at the University of California, Berkeley. Her educational background includes a B.S. from Gannon University and an M.S. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, culminating in a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2009.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.