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Caroline Chick Jarrold
Caroline Chick Jarrold (born September 27, 1967) is a physical chemist who was named the Herman B Wells Endowed Professor at Indiana University in 2018. This reward is given to professors for academic excellence, devotion to diversity, inclusion, and for showing a great passion towards the well-being of students. Jarrold leads a research group composed of graduate and postdoctoral students at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The research done by her group aims to alleviate issues with energy and the environment. More specifically her research focuses on: design an optimization of heterogeneous catalysts with lower operating temperatures, oxidation of volatile organic compounds in atmospheric reaction complexes and exploration of electronic structures that arise in heteronuclear lanthanide complexes.

Early Life and Education
Caroline spent her young life growing up in Detroit, Michigan where she enjoyed playing the piano and composing music. She also loved to go into nature depict different objects in nature through drawings. It was not until her first undergraduate chemistry class at the University of Michigan taught by Professor Robert Kuczkowski that she decided to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, which she later received in 1989. During her time in her undergraduate studies, she worked under Professor A.H. Francis, a physical chemist. Caroline then went forward to complete her Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley under Daniel M. Neumark. As a University of California’s President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA, Caroline worked under James R. Heath until she left to join the chemistry faculty at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1997. Caroline later, went to be part of the Indiana University chemistry faculty in Bloomington Indiana, where she still works today.

Career
Jarrold serves as a professor, researcher, and chair for the department of Chemistry at Indiana University. Professor Jarrold’s research utilizes the applications of gas-phase reactivity, mass spectrometry, anion photodetachment spectroscopies, and computational chemistry to aid in energy and environment.

Awards and Honors

 * 2020 Francis P. Garvin-John M. Olin Medal
 * 2018 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor
 * 2003-2005 NSF Career Award
 * 1995-1996 University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow

External Link

 * http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjarrold/index.htm