Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1993 from MIT
M.S. from Georgia Tech in 1988 S.B. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 1984
In 1994 Dr. Hammond was awarded the NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry while performing postdoctoral research in the Harvard University Chemistry Dept as a member of the Whitesides research group. In 2000, Professor Hammond was awarded the Junior Bose Faculty Award, and the GenCorp Signature University Award. She has also received the NSF Career Award, the EPA Early Career Award, the DuPont Young Faculty Award, and the 3M Innovation Fund Award. Dr. Hammond was one of a group of key faculty members involved in the planning and writing of the proposal for the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN) at MIT.