Chemist Patrick Walsh Honored with 2025 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award

Patrick J. Walsh, Professor of Chemistry, has been selected as one of 10 annual recipients of a 2025 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, which recognizes and encourages excellence in organic chemistry. Walsh will receive his award, which is administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and includes $5,000 and a $40,000 unrestricted research grant, at the ACS Fall meeting in Washington, D.C., in August 2025.
 
A member of the Penn faculty since 1999, Walsh works in the areas of catalysis, methods development, and reaction mechanisms. His group at Penn merges the fields of catalysis and organic and inorganic synthesis with the goal of achieving new catalytic and stoichiometric transformations. From 2008 to 2018, Walsh was Alan MacDiarmid Term Chair in the chemistry department. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (U.K.) in 2016.
 
The Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards were established in 1984 by the ACS Board of Directors on the recommendation of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry and under the terms of the will of the influential organic chemist Arthur C. Cope, who was credited with developing several classical chemical reactions. ACS National Awards recipients are nominated by their peers.