ENY ACS recognized Dr. Kwabena Bediako with the 2025 Buck-Whitney Award. Dr. Bediako’s work in magnetic solids offers promising solutions to accelerating energy demand by electronic and computing systems.
This award was established by the Eastern New York ACS section executive committee in 1976. The name of the award, Buck-Whitney, was chosen to recognize two of the most eminent research directors in the section. The purpose of the award is to recognize excellent original contributions to pure and applied chemistry. The recipient is preferably someone who has not yet achieved national recognition as evidenced by a national award from the ACS. The recipient is expected to deliver an address before the meeting at which the award is made.