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IU Bloomington chemist Daniel Mindiola is one of 58 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

He received the award from John Marburger, President George W. Bush's science adviser, on June 13 in a special ceremony. He is one of 20 scientists nominated by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the honor, and this year he was the only award winner from the state of Indiana. IU Bloomington theoretical chemist Ernest Davidson won the President's National Medal of Science in 2002

Among his many projects, Mindiola is examining metal-based systems that can transform greenhouse gases in our atmosphere into useful products.

The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers program was created in 1996 during the administration of Bill Clinton. Each of 11 U.S. government entities, including NSF, the National Institutes of Health, NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy, is invited to submit the names of promising young researchers to the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Mindiola was nominated by NSF from a pool of approximately 375 researchers who had previously received NSF Faculty Early Career Program grants.

Mindiola was also the recipient earlier this year of a 2005 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.