Prof. Chip Nataro Receives E. Emmet Reid Award in Chemistry Teaching

Chip Nataro, professor of chemistry, has received the E. Emmet Reid Award in Chemistry Teaching in Small Colleges. Administered by the organizing committee of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, the prize is given to “recognize, encourage, and stimulate high-quality teaching and research at small colleges.”

Nataro, who has been at Lafayette since 1999, has worked with 65 undergraduate students, and he and his students have published 36 papers detailing their work in the field of organometallic chemistry.  Nataro regularly teaches inorganic and general chemistry and occasionally teaches a First-Year Seminar course on baseball.