Isiah M. Warner

Isiah Manuel Warner is the Boyd and Phillip W. West Professor of Surface and Analytical Chemistry and the Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at Louisiana State University. Warner has won numerous national and international awards for chemistry and mentoring of students in the sciences.

Isiah Warner was born in Bunkie, Louisiana in 1946. He is a graduate of Southern University where he received his BS degree in Chemistry. Warner received his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Washington in 1977. Following a post-doctoral research experience, Warner started his academic career at Texas A&M University where he received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. Following receipt of tenure and promotion, Warner moved his research laboratory to Emory University and was promoted to full professor in 1986. In 1992, Warner returned to Louisiana and serves as the Phillip W. West Professor of Surface and Analytical Chemistry at Louisiana State University. He is currently the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at LSU and serves as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.

Warner received an honorary doctorate from Marquette University.He has been recognized for his chemical research and mentoring. Warner was named a fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2009. He is a recipient of the NOBCChE Percy L. Julian Award.

• 2016: SEC Professor of the Year
• 2016: American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member
• 2015: Iddles Lectureship
• 2014: Oesper Award
• 2014: American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Professional Relations Henry Hill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Professionalism
• 2014: Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in Chemical Sciences (ACS), November 19, 2013
• 2013: American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry
• 2010: Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) Fellow
• 2009:American Chemical Society Fellow – Inaugural Class
• 2008: ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis
• 2007: Association of Analytical Chemists (Anachem) Award
• 2005: Marquette University, honorary Doctor of Science degree
• 2005: Charles E. Coates Award – ACS local section
• 2005: Tuskegee University George Washington Carver Achievement Award
• 2004: University of Washington, College of Arts & Sciences, Distinguished Alumnus Award
• 2000: CASE Louisiana Teacher of the Year Award
• 2000: LSU Distinguished Faculty Award
• 1997: Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring

• Detection of Homocysteine and Cysteine; Weihua Wang,Oleksandr Rusin,*, Xiangyang Xu,Kyu Kwang Kim,Jorge O. Escobedo,Sayo O. Fakayode,Kristin A. Fletcher,Mark Lowry,Corin M. Schowalter,Candace M. Lawrence,Frank R. Fronczek,Isiah M. Warner, and, and Robert M. Strongin*; 2005 127 (45), 15949-15958 DOI: 10.1021/ja054962n

• Analysis of multicomponent fluorescence data; I. M. Warner, G. D. Christian, E. R. Davidson, and J. B. Callis;1977 49 (4), 564-573; DOI: 10.1021/ac50012a016
• Changing the Culture of Science Education at Research Universities; W. A. Anderson, U. Banerjee, C. L. Drennan, S. C. R. Elgin, I. R. Epstein, J. Handelsman, G. F. Hatfull, R. Losick,*, D. K. O'Dowd,*, B. M. Olivera, S. A. Strobel, G. C. Walker, I. M. Warner; 14 Jan 2011: Vol. 331, Issue 6014, pp. 152-153 DOI: 10.1126/science.1198280