Mary K. Carroll ’86, the Dwane W. Crichton Professor of Chemistry, is profiled in a cover story of the latest edition of C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society.

Carroll was elected as the president of the ACS, the world’s largest scientific society with 151,000 members in 140 countries.

She will serve as president of the society in 2024 and immediate past president in 2025; she will also serve on the board of directors from 2023 through 2025.

Carroll, an analytical chemist, joined Union in 1992, the first alumna hired as a tenure-track member of Union’s faculty.