There are three ACS Undergraduate Scholarships of $1,000 each to the following three outstanding students that the Undergraduate scholarship committee selected from the 27 (!) applications that were received this year:
Matthew Morris Dedmon, Gary J. Pielak-advisor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Matthew aspires a career in biochemistry/biophysics and plans to spend the scholarship money for his summer studies on molecular crowding and natively unfolded proteins. With the scholarship funds he will become trained in various technical aspects of NMR analysis and purchase reagents for the laboratory. He is further interested to spend some of this money to travel to an ACS conference to present the results of his research.
Joyce Eugenia Kung, Eric J. Toone-advisor, Duke University: Joyce is interested in becoming a chemistry teacher at either a high school or a college. Her summer project involves studies of the thermodynamic solvent isotope effect by measuring the binding between crown ethers and metal ions. She plans to spend the scholarship money on chemicals and also would like to attend a scientific conference.
Dave Chokshi, Dhavalkumar Patel-advisor, Duke University: Dave plans to pursue a career in the field of biochemistry and is currently working on research relating to chemokines, in particular fractalkine along with its G-protien coupled receptor CX3CR1. He plans to purchase text books and software with part of the scholarship funds and would like to use the other part to participate in two meetings to present his research next spring.
Andrea Liebmann-Vinson
Chairperson of the Undergraduate Scholarship Committee