Nasser Arshadi (right), vice provost for research at UMSL and Christopher Spilling (right), chair, Department of Chemistry at UMSL, present the UMSL Inventor of the Year award to Janet Braddock-Wilking, associate professor of chemistry at UMSL. (Photo by August Jennewein)

Nasser Arshadi (right), vice provost for research at UMSL and Christopher Spilling (right), chair, Department of Chemistry at UMSL, present the UMSL Inventor of the Year award to Janet Braddock-Wilking, associate professor of chemistry at UMSL. (Photo by August Jennewein)