Dr. John P. Ferraris, head of the Chemistry Department at The University of Texas at Dallas, has been named this year’s winner of the W. T. Doherty Award by the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The award will be formally presented at a dinner meeting of the section in September at which Ferraris will deliver a technical lecture. The award, which includes an honorarium of $1,000, recognizes significant achievement in research, teaching and service – in Ferraris’ case, his work in the field of conducting polymers for energy storage, light emission, electrochromism and membrane separations. The award was established by the local section of the ACS to honor the memory of Wilfred Thomas “Doc” Doherty, one of the founding trustees and later president of the Robert A. Welch Foundation, a Texas-based philanthropic organization that supports chemical research. The first award was given in 1972, the year after Doherty’s death.