Department News
Department News
Six students receive NSF graduate research fellowships
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Six Department of Chemistry students have received fellowships in the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and two more have earned honorable mentions.
Xiao Xiao receives department's thesis award
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Xiao Xiao, Ph.D., received the Department of Chemistry’s Best Thesis Award for 2019. Xiao earned his doctorate working with Professor Thomas Hoye, researching aryne-based synthetic methodologies.
Monica Ohnsorg selected for CAS Future Leaders program
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Monica Ohnsorg has received a prestigious CAS Future Leaders program award.
Rebeca Rodriguez receives fellowships and awards
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Rebeca Rodriguez is an outstanding graduate student and researcher earning fellowships and awards for her work, including a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Fellowship, Louis T. Dosdall Fellowship, and Women Chemists Committee Merck Research Award.
Graduate students receive poster session awards
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Amy Ott and Blair Troudt receive poster awards at conferences and discuss their research
Hannah Lembke receives NIH Biotechnology Training Grant
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Hannah Lembke has received a National Institutes of Health Biotechnology Training Grant. The Biotechnology Training Program at the University of Minnesota provides students with cross-disciplinary skiils, knowledge and prospectives that are needed to solve challenging questions questions and problems in biotechnology.
Emma Corcoran creates article for Chemists Celebrate Earth Week
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Senior chemistry major, Emma Corcoran, wrote an article that was published as one of the feature articles in the American Chemical Society's Celebrating Chemistry, a publication for intermediate and middle school students in grades 4th-6th for "Chemists Celebrate Earth Week."
Emily Prebihalo receives teaching assistant award
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Emily Prebihalo has been awarded the "Aaron and Anna Beek Graduate Student Teaching Award," by the Council of Graduate Students (COGS). This is a university-wide award for teaching assistants.
Meghan Cahill receives ACS Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry
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Meghan Cahill, a junior chemistry major working with Professor Christy Haynes, has received the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry.
Amani Lee wins top poster award
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Amani Lee was recognized as the best graduate student presenter at the annual meeting for the University of Minnesota's Institute for Engineering in Medicine.