The annual top 10 list features early- and mid-career scientists who are pushing the boundaries of scientific inquiry and demonstrating potential to shape the science of the future.

The award will enable Shen and her research group to create new electrochemical methods and microscopes to detect, measure, and visualize the presence of chemicals that are used as neurotransmitters that currently cannot be investigated by other methods.

An alumna from the Department of Chemistry is one of 10 alumni from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences to be named recipients of the college’s 2020 annual alumni awards.