The Great Lakes Region of The American Chemical Society honored Illinois chemistry alumna Lydia E. Moissides-Hines (M.S., ’69; Ph.D., ’71, Applequist) with the inaugural 2025 Martin Rudd Mentoring Award sponsored through the American Chemical Society Great Lakes Region.
A retired chemistry lecturer from Western Michigan University, Moissides-Hines is described by one of her nominators as a “force of nature when it comes to the education, promotion and proliferation of chemistry in the counties surrounding Kalamazoo, Michigan.” Hines has been very active with ACS for nearly 60 years during her teaching career and beyond. She has devoted more than 45 years as a volunteer, bringing interactive science experiments to classrooms and mentoring college chemistry clubs, ACS chapter colleagues, and chemistry students in Southwest Michigan, primarily in Kalamazoo, where she is known as the “face of chemistry.”