Congratulations to Charles "Chuck" Lucy, recipient of this year’s J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Charles “Chuck’ Lucy on being the recipient of this year’s J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education given out by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Analytical Chemistry. He is the first Canadian winner in the award’s 35 year history.

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Chuck joins a long list of distinguished recipients , see https://acsanalytical.org/awards-resources/national-acs-awards/excellence-in-education/, and becomes the first Canadian winner in the award’s 35+ year history. Over his career, Chuck has admirably filled the mandate of this award to enhance “the personal and professional development of students in the study of analytical chemistry in one or more of the following ways: 

  • Authorship of an influential textbook for an analytical chemistry course. 

  • Design and implementation of a successful new approach to teaching analytical chemistry.