Xiaotang Lu, assistant professor of chemistry, is among 12 researchers selected as Beckman Young Investigators by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.
The 2026 class of awardees was announced June 9, 2026, and selected from a pool of about 400 applicants from colleges and universities across the U.S. They will receive $7.2 million in total science funding for cutting-edge research, according to the Foundation's announcement that said the “awardees exemplify the Foundation's mission of supporting the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open new avenues of research in science.”