Patrick J. Walsh, a professor of chemistry in the School of Arts & Sciences, has been selected as one of ten annual recipients of a 2025 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award. The award, administered by the American Chemical Society, recognizes and encourages excellence in organic chemistry.

Research in Dr. Walsh’s laboratory merges the fields of catalysis and organic and inorganic synthesis with the goal of achieving new catalytic and stoichiometric transformations. Dr. Walsh’s research interests include mechanism study for some novel and unusual reactivity.