Penn Chemistry Librarian Judith Currano has been elected to the 2020 class of American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellows. The fellows program began in 2009 as a way to recognize ACS members for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and ACS.

Ms. Currano is responsible for developing the electronic and print collections in chemistry. She also teaches a half-credit graduate course in chemical information that is required for the PhD in chemistry at Penn. In 2016, she received the Special Libraries Association’s Rose L. Vormelker Award for teaching and mentoring students and professionals. She is an active member of the American Chemical Society, where she serves as the chair of the ACS Committee on Ethics, and the Special Libraries Association Chemistry Division. Ms. Currano’s research interests center around teaching chemical information, structure-based information retrieval, and the responsible conduct of research in chemistry. She currently serves as the advisor to Penn’s Women in Chemistry group and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC).