One Road initiative, as the first North American partner. He formerly served as the only American member of the Executive Committee of the Universities Alliance of the Silk Road and resigned in 2019, which is when Washington University also left the Alliance. Awards and honors 1969 Monsanto Chemistry Award (Florida State) 1972 Herbert Newby McCoy Award (Caltech) 1974 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 1981 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry of the American Chemical Society MIT Chemistry Department Graduate Teaching Award 1983 Honorary Doctor of Science at the University of West Florida MacArthur Fellowship George and Freda Halpern Award in Photochemistry from the New York Academy of Sciences Ernest O. Lawrence Award from the U.S. Department of Energy 1984 Fresenius Award of Phi Lambda Upsilon 1987 MIT School of Science Teaching Prize 1988 Award in Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society 1992 Distinguished Alumni Award (Caltech) 1995 Honorary Alumnus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2002 Honorary Professorship at Shandong University (Jinan, China) 2007 Citizen of the Year Award from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2007 Honorary Doctorate Degree- Doctor of Humane Letters Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida) 2009 Honorary Doctorate Degree, Harris-Stowe State University (St. Louis, Missouri) 2010 Honorary Doctorate Degree, Fudan University (Shanghai, China) 2010 Right Arm of St. Louis Award from the St. Louis Regional Chamber 2019 Honorary Professor, Xidian University, Xi'an China 2019 Honorary Doctorate Degree, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (now Reichman University) Fellowships and appointments Member of the Chemistry Research Evaluation Panel of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (1976–1980) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (since 1986) Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1988) Member of the Board of Directors of Helix Technology (1990-2006 when it merged with Brooks Automation) Member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Museum of Science (1991–1997) Member of the Corporation of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1991–1995) Member of the Corporation of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (1994–1996) Member of the Board of Directors of the Chemical Heritage Foundation (1998–2002) Trustee of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (1998–2002) Trustee of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (1998-2019) Presidential Appointee to the National Science Board (2000–2006) Member of the American Philosophical Society (since 2001) Member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (2002–2005) Member of the Board of