RYAN P STEELE portrait
  • Associate Professor, Chemistry
801-587-3800

Professional Service

  • Q-Chem, Inc. Nicholas Besley Memorial Award Committee. 12/2022 - present
  • US National Science Foundation. Ad hoc proposal reviewer. 10/2021 - 10/2021
  • US Dept of Energy. Ad hoc proposal reviewer. 07/2021 - 07/2021
  • U.S. National Science Foundation. Role: Panelist. Review Panel. 01/14/2021 - 01/15/2021
  • American Chemical Society. Executive Committee Member-at-Large. 11/2019 - 12/2022
  • Utah Quantum Workshop. Co-coordinator. 09/2019 - 09/2019
  • American Chemical Society. Phys Division Symposium Organizer. 03/2019 - 03/2019
  • Advancing Mass Spectrometry conference. Advisory Board. 01/2017 - 03/2022
  • Q-Chem, Inc. Michael Wormit Memorial Award Committee. 01/2016 - present

Internal Service

  • Benefits Advisory Committee (Faculty representative). 08/2022 - present. University service.
  • College of Science Curriculum Committee. 07/01/2022 - present. College service.
  • Director of Graduate Studies. 07/01/2022 - present. Department service.
  • Chair, Graduate Education Committee. 07/01/2022 - present. Department service.
  • Faculty Senate Calendar Ad Hoc Committee. 10/2021 - 01/2022. University service.
  • Faculty Senate Executive Committee. 05/2021 - 05/2022. University service.
  • Undergraduate Education Committee. 08/2019 - 07/2022. Department service.
  • Faculty Senate. College of Science senator, 08/01/2019 - 07/31/2022. University service.
  • Teaching Mentoring Committee. Chair, 05/01/2019 - 07/31/2022. Department service.
  • Graduate Admissions Committee. 08/2018 - 07/2019. Department service.
  • Faculty Search Committee. 08/2018 - 05/2019. Department service.
  • College of Science Council. 05/2018 - 05/2020. College service.
  • Crocker Science Curriculum Committee. 01/2018 - 12/2019. College service.
  • Physical Chemistry Division Chair. 08/2017 - 08/2019. Department service.
  • Graduate Recruiting Committee. 08/2017 - 07/2018. Department service.
  • Teaching Mentoring Committee. Member, 08/2016 - 08/2019. Department service.
  • Teaching & Learning Portfolio Committee (College of Science represenative). 08/2015 - 07/2022. University service.
  • Center for High-Performance Computing Allocation Committee. 08/2014 - present. University service.
  • Undergraduate Council. 08/2014 - 05/2016. University service.
  • One Network Planning Committee. 01/2014 - 12/2014. University service.
  • Graduate Admissions Committee. 08/2011 - 07/2016. Department service.
  • Physical Chemistry Seminar Coordinator. 08/2011 - 05/2016. Department service.
  • Faculty Search Committee. 08/2011 - 05/2012. Department service.

Honors & Awards

  • Robert W. Parry Teaching Award. Department of Chemistry, 04/2019
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) Emerging Investigator Lectureship. Royal Society of Chemistry, 05/2017
  • Fostering Undergraduate Research Excellence. University of Utah, 05/2017
  • OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry. American Chemical Society, 03/2016
  • CAREER Award. National Science Foundation, 03/2015
  • Outstanding Junior Faculty Presentation. American Chemical Society, 08/2012
  • Student Choice Teaching Award. ASUU, 05/2012