| Kaylie Young, a senior at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has won the 2007 Frank and Sara McKnight Prize in Undergraduate Chemistry. Ms. Young was awarded the $2,000 top prize for her work, titled “Conjugating Methotrexate to Magnetic Magnetite Nanoparticles via Trichloro-s-triazine.” |
The $1,000 second place award went to Brian Shuhler, a senior at Washington State University, for his work on “’One-pot’ Synthesis of Polysubstituted Thiophenes.”
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Jesse Jacobsen of the University of Louisville received third place, and $500, for his research project, “A Facile Synthesis of 3-fluoro-2,4,5-trisubstituted furans: the Importance of Microwave Irradiation.” |