Congratulations to Harrington Fellow Amy M. Rhoden Smith

Incoming graduate student Amy M. Rhoden Smith has received the prestigious Harrington Fellowship. The Harrington Graduate Fellows Program supports gifted and ambitious graduate students at The University of Texas, who in turn, will share their knowledge and success with future generations. In 1985, Mrs. Sybil B. Harrington conceived the idea of a fellowship program to honor her late husband, Donald D. Harrington, engineer, World War I Veteran, and oil developer. Harrington Graduate Fellows are chosen based on their scholastic records, character and personal qualities, commitment to pursuing a graduate degree in a designated area of study, and potential to become outstanding scholars and citizens.

Rhoden Smith recently graduated from the College of Charleston, located in Charleston, South Carolina, with a B.S. in Chemistry. At The College of Charleston, she worked with Professor Pamela Riggs Gelasco studying the metal specificity of the Ribonucleotide Reductase from Coryneform ammoniagenes. This biochemical research, combined with her undergraduate chemistry background, drove her interest in working at the interface between chemistry and biology. She is most interested in doing interdisciplinary research that utilizes chemistry to better understand biological problems. Amy was born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, so the hot Texas weather is no stranger to her. She recently married Daniel Smith and moved to Austin with their cat, Calvin.