NESACS - The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society


2012 Grants-in-Aid Award
The Education Committee has awarded a Grant-in-Aid of $350 to four undergraduates at the colleges and universities within the Northeastern Section to enable the students to attend the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, California to present a paper at the Undergraduate Research Poster Session in the Division of Chemical Education. Matching funds have been committed by the institution to support the student’s travel. The recipient is also required to participate in the Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC) in May 2012. The awardees, research supervisors, and the titles of the papers are as follows: Emily Nicotera, Stonehill College (Prof. Maria Curtin), Investigation of Aluminum Chlorohydrate by Atmospheric Ionization Mass Spectrometry Stephanie Murray, Stonehill College (Prof. Leon Tilley), Trifluoromethyl Directed y-Silyl Elimination in the Cationic Mediated Synthesis of Trifluoromethylcyclopropanes. Eve A. Granatosky, Stonehill College (Prof. Louis Liotta), Stereochemically Controlled Dihydroxylations in the Synthesis of Polyhydroxylated Pyrrolizidines. Kelly McCarthy, Stonehill College (Prof. Louis Liotta), The Synthesis of a Polyhydroxylated Pyrrolidine from a D-Altrose Derivative.
Applications for the travel stipend are accepted from students majoring in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, or molecular biology who are in good standing with at least junior status, and are currently engaged in undergraduate research. Abstracts for the Undergraduate Research Poster Session were required to be submitted by electronic transmission to the ACS National Headquarters by October 31, 2011 (11:59 pm EST).