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A Note from the WCC Chair
A Note from the WCC Immediate Past Chair
Anna J. Harrison, First Female ACS President
Metals in Biochemistry
The Merck Index 2008 Women in Chemistry Scholarship Results Announced!
Scholarship in Honor of Priscilla Carney Jones
WCC Open Meeting
Women in Chemical Technology Professions
Successful Women in Chemistry
Gender and Workforce Studies
WCC Luncheon
Spring 2009 Travel Awardees
2008 WCC ChemLuminary Awards
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The Merck Index 2008 Women in Chemistry Scholarship Results Announced! ACS Meeting Symposium and Poster Session Honors Recipients
Photo courtesy of Linda Wang The Merck Index launched an annual scholarship program in 2007 for outstanding women entering a graduate program in synthetic organic or medicinal chemistry. Winners are chosen based on academic performance and undergraduate research accomplishments. The 2008 winners were:
Karen holds a B.S. in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College. She has completed numerous undergraduate research projects including studies toward the concise, biomimetic synthesis of (+)-davanone under the direction of David A. Vosberg at Harvey Mudd, and studies of the catalytic asymmetric arylation, alkylation, and allylation of nitroalkanes with Alessandro Boezio at Amgen. Karen has won numerous awards and honors including the Dorothy C. and J. Arthur Campbell Prize for achievement and promise in chemistry at Harvey Mudd College, the William S. Sly Chemistry Prize for excellence in chemistry at Harvey Mudd College, and a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. She was a four-year Harvey S. Mudd Merit Scholar and a National Merit Scholarship recipient. Karen plans to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry as a Springborn Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she will also be supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
Sarah completed a dual major in chemistry and mathematics at Furman University. She has conducted undergraduate research in the synthesis of chromium(III) diimine complexes and diimine ligands as model systems for Cr(III)-DNA adduct formation under the direction of Noel A. P. Kane-Maguire. Sarah presented her work at the 59th Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, where she was a poster session winner. She has won numerous scholarships, including a Wylie Mathematics Scholarship, a Vogel Chemistry Scholarship, a Furman University Achiever's Scholarship, and a Robert C. Byrd Scholarship. Sarah plans to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Florida and a career in academia.
Sandra recently graduated with a double major in chemistry and mathematics from Grinnell College. As a Snyder Scholar, Sarah completed a research project involving synthesis of ligands for an enantioselective iridium-catalyzed allylic alkylation and amination methods study under the direction of John Hartwig at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also conducted theoretical and computational chemistry research with Xueyu Song at Iowa State University as part of an NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Award. Sarah's other awards and honors include a Smith Family Prize, a Chemistry Alumni Prize, a Joe Wall Scholarship, a Joyce Buck ’56 Award, Academic All-Conference Honors, and Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Sandra plans to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry at Yale University, and a career in synthetic chemistry research in the pharmaceutical industry.
Jelly maintained a perfect 5.0 GPA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she received a B.S. degree in chemistry. She also earned first class honors during a one-year exchange program at the University of Cambridge, Trinity College. Jelly has completed undergraduate research with John Essigmann at MIT, investigating how mismatch repair proteins collaborate with methyltransferases in the repair of O6-methylguanine. She also worked with Steven Ley at the University of Cambridge on developing a unified strategy towards the development of piperazic acid derivatives. Her numerous achievement awards include a scholarship from the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology in Thailand, and a gold medal at the 35th International Chemistry Olympiad in Athens, Greece. Jelly plans to pursue a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. Her long-term career goal is to address global health issues as a chemistry professor.
Amy holds a B.S. in chemistry, and is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in organic chemistry from Carleton University. Her undergraduate research focused on synthesis of fatty acid analogues required for the mechanistic analysis of selected desaturase-mediated oxidations, under the supervision of Peter H. Buist. Amy's research has been published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, and Organic Letters. Amy also presented her work at the 8th Tetrahedron Symposium in Berlin, Germany in 2007. Amy has received numerous scholarships and other awards for excellence in chemistry, including the John W. ApSimon Graduate Student Award in Chemistry and Biochemistry, an Alfred Bader Scholarship, and three undergraduate research awards from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Amy will continue her graduate studies as a Ph.D. candidate at Carleton University. Amy plans to pursue a career in teaching and research as a university professor. Each winner received a $5,000 scholarship and a personalized
imprinted copy of The Merck Index. The awards were presented at the Women Chemists Committee’s Women
in Industry Breakfast at the 236th
In addition to the five scholarship winners, the selection committee identified ten outstanding applicants who received $500 and a personalized imprinted copy of The Merck Index, and presented their work at "The Merck Index Women in Chemistry Poster Session". The poster session awardees are: Kristen Clary (University of Calgary) Anna Dawsey (University of Southern California) Maggie He (University of Pennsylvania) Casie Hilliard (Texas A&M University) Lauren A. Martini (Yale University) Alison Oostendorp (UCLA) Caroline Proulx (University of Montreal) Lindsay Repka (Caltech) Kelly A. Volp (University of Minnesota) Christina M. Woo (Yale University)
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