New year honours recognise chemists’ services to inclusion and diversity

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC’s) immediate past president, Gill Reid, is one of several members of the chemical sciences community to have been recognised in the UK’s 2025 new year honours list. Reid, who has been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the chemical sciences and to inclusion and diversity, described the honour as one of her ‘proudest moments’.

Also to be recognised in the 2025 honours was Ijeoma Uchegbu, professor of pharmaceutical nanoscience in the School of Pharmacy at University College London and chief scientific officer of the pharmaceutical nanotechnology spinout Nanomerics, who was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the chemical sciences and to inclusion and diversity.