Dr. Scott Reid
Professor of Chemistry

Dr. Scott Reid, professor and department chair of chemistry in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University, is the recipient of this year’s Way Klingler Fellowship in science. The award, which includes $50,000 annually for three years, will allow Reid to finish a project focused on a new roaming reaction pathway to molecular products in the chemistry of halogenated organic compounds.

Reid’s research, which began in 2010, was made possible through his Way Klingler Sabbatical award. He worked alongside researchers from the University of Sydney who were developing new tools to study these reactions.

“I want to sincerely thank the Way Klingler family for this fellowship. Not only will the award allow us to build upon the research project we started three years ago, but in helping develop new tools and external funding for our research, it will strengthen research here at Marquette,” Reid said.

Reid has been at Marquette since 1994 and in 2011 he was named the chair of Marquette’s Chemistry Department. His work has resulted in more than 80 peer-reviewed papers. Additionally, he has received more than $2.3 million in external funding including a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

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Dr. Ulrich Lehner
Associate Professor of Theology

Dr. Ulrich Lehner, associate professor of theology and director of undergraduate programs in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University, has been awarded the 2015 Way Klingler Fellowship in the humanities. Lehner will receive $20,000 annually for three years, which he will use to research the roles of women during the Catholic Enlightenment.

Lehner recognizes that the Catholic Enlightenment generally refers to philosophical and intellectual developments in catholic regions of Europe during the 18^th century relating to men. It has been within the last ten years that researchers have begun to consider women’s roles in the Enlightenment.

“Since there is little to no research on this topic, the work I do will put Marquette on the map and ensure the university is recognized as a place where faith and reason complement each other,” Lehner said.

Lehner intends to use his fellowship award to write a book based on traveling and digitizing archival documents. Ultimately Lehner’s goal is to tell a story of how Catholic women in Europe, North and South America, and Goa, India used enlightenment to articulate their faith.

Lehner is an internationally recognized scholar in the area of the Catholic Enlightenment. He has written four books that have resulted in nearly 100 reviews published in English, American, Italian, French, Spanish and German academic journals and newspapers.