SEMO SCIENCE PROFESSOR GIVEN RESEARCH AWARD

Dr. Marcus Bond, assistant professor of chemistry at Southeast Missouri State University, has received a $34,723 Cottrell College Science Award.

The award will support Bond's research project on liquid crystals.

Bond plans to insert clusters of metals into organic liquid crystals. Bond said he will conduct the research in the summers of 1997 and 1998.

The award is given by the Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of science and technology. The Cottrell College Science Program supports basic research in chemistry, physics and astronomy at public and private, predominantly undergraduate colleges.