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From the Chemistry Department
Two Chemistry Students Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships
The National Science Foundation has announced that they will be awarding 28 prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships to University of Texas at Austin students, including two from the Department of Chemistry - graduate student James Daniel Sanders and undergraduate Danny Quang Thach. The annual fellowship ho...Zachary Kasun Awarded ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship
Graduate student Zachary Kasun of the Krische Group is a 2015-2016 recipient of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship. The Division of Organic Chemistry annually awards fellowships to outstanding third and fourth year graduate students in organic chemistry. The program has awarded more than 300 fellowships since 1...Sarah Wong Participates in Prestigious Leadership Training to Increase STEM Leaders of Color
Dr. Sarah Wong is participating in a leadership program as a part of the Postdoctoral Fellow cohort at the SACNAS Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) led by Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) and American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS). The institute is an intensive course...Jeffrey Dick Attends Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany
By Jeffrey E. Dick, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in Prof. Allen Bard's Lab. The 65th Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany was a week to remember, rife with intellectual conversation, passionate debates, and copious amounts of German beer, sauerkraut, and sausage. 651 students from 88 different count...
