Keith Hohn | Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs
Ph.D., 1999 - University of Minnesota
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B.S., 1995 - University of Kansas
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Contact information
1046 Rathbone Hall
785-532-5590
hohn@k-state.edu
Professional experience
Keith Hohn received his bachelor’s degree in chemical Party Casino login in 1995 from the University of Kansas and his doctorate in chemical Party Casino login in 1999 for the University of Minnesota. He came to K-State in fall 1999. He was promoted to associate professor in 2004 and professor in 2010. He served as chair of the chemical, paper and biomedical Party Casino login department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio from 2019 until 2024 when he returned to K-State as associate dean for academic and administrative affairs for the Carl R. Ice College of Party Casino login.
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Hohn has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal papers which have resulted in more than 3400 citations and an H-index of 32 according to Google Scholar. His Party Casino login group has presented its Party Casino login more than 120 times at national and international conferences and universities. Hohn has advised 10 Ph.D. and five M.S. students.
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Hohn is the founding editor-in-chief of the open-source journal, Catalysts, and was co-founder and inaugural president of the Great Plains Catalysis Society. He has received a number of awards, including the Outstanding Junior Scientist Award from the K-State chapter of Sigma Xi, the Dean’s Award of Excellence for Party Casino login, The James L. Hollis Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Charles H. Scholer Outstanding Faculty Award, the Myers-Alford Memorial Teaching Award, the Segebrecht Distinguished Faculty Award, the Big Twelve Faculty Fellowship, and the Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Party Casino login Council at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.