2000 Lawrence G. Haggerty Faculty Award for Research Excellence Recipient

James R. Kincaid Chemistry Professor Kincaid is one of Marquette University’s most prolific and talented researchers. Since arriving at Marquette in 1984 and establishing his laboratory here, he has garnered more than $3 million of extramural research funding from a dozen research projects, published 88 journal articles which have been cited more than 2400 times by other researchers, and served as research mentor for 11 Ph.D. students, 10 M.S. students, 5 undergraduates and 11 postdoctoral fellows.

Professor Kincaid’s area of research is in spectroscopic techniques of resonance Raman and timeresolved Raman spectroscopy. His work with zeolites show great promise in resolving significant issues of “back-electron transfer” which have hindered solar energy research in the past. His findings, published in Nature, have gained him international acclaim and promise to open the door to significant breakthroughs in energy research.

His zeolite research also holds promise for new areas of research in the biological sciences as well. Professor Kincaid has received numerous honors for his research including the National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health (1975-1978), the Wehr Professor of Chemistry Chair at Marquette from 1993 –1998, and the Milwaukee Section Award from the American Chemical Society in 1998.

He has served his discipline as an NIH peer reviewer since 1981. Professor Kincaid has served his Marquette students, and his discipline with his research, publication, service and teaching.