Department News

Department News

chemical symbols on colored balls
Student Honors/Awards

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, Ph.D., in a chemistry laboratory
Student Honors/Awards

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.

Student Honors/Awards

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, scientist, in lab coat in the lab
Student Honors/Awards

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.

Student Honors/Awards

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
Student Honors/Awards

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.

Senior Chemistry Major Emma Corcoran and Professor Jane Wissinger created a curriculum around edible water pods
Student Honors/Awards

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
Student Honors/Awards

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 conducting research
Student Honors/Awards

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 putting liquid in a tube in the lab
Student Honors/Awards

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.