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 2007 Winners

 

Kaylie Young Brian Shuhler Jesse Jacobsen
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.”

 

 

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.”

The other finalists were:

Leslie Aldrich Andrew Chang Catt Edgley William Hudson
Leslie Aldrich
Mercer University

Andrew Chang
Harvard University

Catt Edgley
University of Maryland

William Hudson
Duke University

Marc Lajoie Jamie Rogers Lisa Ryno  
Marc Lajoie
Dartmouth College
Jamie Rogers
Illinois Wesleyan University
Lisa Ryno
Trinity University
 

 

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