Ray Schaak, DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry in the Penn State Eberly College of Science and professor of chemical engineering, has been awarded the 2025 F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society (ACS). The award recognizes outstanding achievements in synthetic inorganic chemistry. Schaak will be presented with the award at the Spring 2025 ACS meeting in San Diego. This meeting will also feature a symposium in his honor that is being organized by four doctoral alumni of the Penn State Department of Chemistry.