The Illinois Tech section of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society held an event in The McCormick Tribune Campus Center on April 10. The Department of Chemistry is proud to announce that two individuals from the department received awards: The Student Award was given to Ph.D. candidate Elahe Moazzen for her research in the area of high-capacity alkaline batteries in the Segre research group and the Junior Faculty Award was given to Associate Professor David Minh. Minh was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure and is actively pursuing research on implicit ligand theory and predicting molecular interactions to aid drug discovery.