Awards, promotions, publications and other milestones of our members.
Dr. Alaaeddin Alsbaiee, a founding member and former President of SAAS, and Professor William Dichtel of Northwestern University won the 2026 ACS Green Chemistry Challenge Award for their polyurethane recycling research.
SAAS congratulates Dr. Alaaeddin Alsbaiee on his appointment as Associate Professor of Chemistry at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) and thanks him for his service as the Society’s President.
SAAS congratulates Dr. Anas Al-Fattal on receiving tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Crookston.
SAAS congratulates Dr. Mhd Hasan Almekdash on his promotion to the rank of Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, effective June 1, 2026.
SAAS congratulates Dr. Reem Haikal, Professor of Law at Texas Southern University, on being voted “Professor of the Year” for the second consecutive year and on winning first place at the 2026 Research Week.
SAAS congratulates Dr. Alaaeddin Alsbaiee on new research, published in Biomacromolecules, on peptide-functionalized rosette nanotubes with promising uses in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
SAAS congratulates member Dr. Dima Dira on receiving the 2026 NSF CAREER Award for her research project “AdaptTrust” on adaptive, trustworthy learning in smart sensing technologies.
SAAS congratulates Dr. Laila Alhusini on earning her PhD in Media and Public Relations with distinction, with a dissertation on the role of local Arab media in the United States during the COVID-19 crisis.
SAAS congratulates Dr. Nora Masri on beginning a postdoctoral research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at Yale School of Medicine, supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 fellowship.
Dr. Mhd Hasan Almekdash led a national study, funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, evaluating whether the VA Toxic Exposure Medical Evaluation Program speeds veterans’ diagnosis and treatment.
New research by the Society’s president, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), shows that hard-to-recycle plastics can be chemically recycled without expensive external catalysts.
