June 2024: Novel spectroscopy technique sheds light on NOx reduction
January 2024: Core-shell ‘chemical looping’ boosts efficiency of greener approach to ethylene production
January 2022: Smarter catalysts through ‘induced activation’
July 2021: A 'solid' approach to sustainable shale gas ethylene conversion
Septemeber 2019: Cutting-edge instrumentations finally resolved 40 year old question
December 2018: Prof. Israel E. Wachs elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
September 2018: Prof. Israel E. Wachs' scholarly publications reach ISI Golden h-Index of 100
April 2018: Professor Israel Wachs receives Research Leadership Award
2017 NSF's MRI Program: Interdisciplinary HAT TRICK by Lehigh University
January 2018: Professor Israel Wachs receives Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation
December 2017: Professor Israel Wachs' group wins Best Poster Award at International Conference
November 2017: Lehigh University Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Student Wins Best Poster Presentation at Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Annual Poster Competition
November 2017: "Unparalleled access" in surface science
September 2017: Graduate Student Ben Moskowitz wins the Department of Energy Office of Science Student Research (SCGSR) Award
May 2017: Wachs Group Wins Best Paper in ACS San Francisco Session
November 2016: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering major recognized in student poster competition at the AIChE Annual Meeting
November 2016: Lehigh Students Shine at Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Student Poster Competition
November 2016: Catalyzing Excellence: Dr. Israel E. Wachs wins major award for research leadership
August 2016: Stories Scratching the Surface
Summer 2015: Opening Up Possibilities for Greener Natural Gas
April 2015: Critical Catalytic Reaction Understood at Molecular Level
November 2014: Taking Aim at Acid Gases
October 2014: Professor Israel Wachs part of a team that will receive a DOE EFRC grant
April 2014: ChemE Ph.D. candidate finds success through catalysis
April 2014: Grad Students Win Catalysis Prizes
March 2014: Lehigh University Students Shine at Northeast Regional Catalysis Symposium
December 2013: Lehigh professor delivers key lectures at CHF, TSRC conferences
October 2013: Lehigh among best at Northeastern Student Poster Competition
July 2013: Vanadium Oxide catalysis work from the group of Professor Israel E. Wachs featured on the cover page of Dalton Transactions.
October 2012: Student leadership in catalysis
July 2012: Wachs Receives the 5th Vanadis Award
May 2012: Israel E. Wachs receives a top international research prize
December 2011: Graduate students shine at catalysis conference
September 2011: The Catalyst Review Special Feature: New Catalyst Research Instrumentation is Allowing for Quantitative Atomic Composition of the Outermost, Top-Surface Layer of Heterogeneous Catalysts and Sorbents
September 2011: Nanotechnology for Better Natural Gas Utilization
September 2011: A Chemical Engineer Joins a Select Group
August 2011: Dr. Israel E. Wachs named an ACS Fellow
April 2011: Julie Molinari wins First Place in Annual Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York Poster Competition
April 2011: Playing Pool with Atoms
January 2011: Catalysis science of methanol oxidation over iron vanadate catalysts
January 2011: The generality of surface vanadium oxide phases in mixed oxide catalysts
December 2010: Anomalous Surface Compositions of Mixed Oxides
December 2010: Utilizing Raman Spectroscopy to Monitor Catalysts In Action
November 2010: Building a Better Catalyst
November 2010: Michelle Spicer, a Lehigh Junior, Recognized for CO2 Capture Research
May 2010: Students Excel in Catalysis Research Presentations
November 2009: Imaging a catalyst one atom at a time
October 2009: A singular, molecular focus yields more effective catalysts
May 2009: Catalyst Journal Highly Cited Author
March 2009: Ph.D. candidate recognized by Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York
November 2008: Lehigh Senior Recognized for Catalysis Research
April 2008 : Scientist Explores Invisible Environmental Helpers (National Science Foundation)
October 2007: Wachs chosen to receive Olah Award
September 2007: A "sub-nanoscale" leap in reactivity
April 2007: Grad students tops in region for catalysis research
March 2007: Prof. Wachs' students win award at the New York and Philadelphia Catalysis Socities (pdf)
Prof. Wachs and students active at 232nd ACS meeting in San Francisco, September 2006.
Prof. Wachs' students come up big at conference, February 2006.
