Chemistry Assistant Professor Cedric Schaack has won an NSF CAREER Award Schaack’s five-year award totals more than $687,000 He and his team are studying and building new polymers, or plastics Schaack is hosting “sip-posiums” to teach the public about chemistry. Imagine putting a bandage on a wound. As your wound heals, the bandage is white, but if it becomes infected, the bandage alerts you by turning deep blue.