Fellowship Awardees for 2011-2012
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Fellowship Awardees for 2011-2012 Nicholas Calandra Sponsor: Boehringer Ingelheim Yale University Advisor: Seth Herzon Biographical Information: Nick is currently a fourth-year graduate student working with Seth Herzon exploring the synthesis of hasubanan and related alkaloid natural products Undergrad: St. Lawrence University, BS Chemistry Daniel Tzvi Cohen Sponsor: Organic Syntheses/Organic Reactions Northwestern University Advisor: Karl A. Scheidt Biographical Information: Daniel is currently a fourth year working in Professor Karl Scheidt's Laboratory at Northwestern University studying annulation strategies in N- heterocyclic carbene-catalysis. Undergrad: SUNY New Paltz, BA Chemistry Kaid Harper Sponsor: Organic Syntheses (Nelson Leonard Fellowship) University of Utah Advisor: Matthew S. Sigman Biographical Information: Kaid is currently a 4th year graduate student working in Matthew Sigman's laboratory working on new methods to identify and optimize highly enantioselective catalysts using ligand liBAies and free energy relationships. Undergrad: Brigham Young University, BS Chemistry Julia Kalow Sponsor: Pfizer Princeton University Advisor: Abigail Doyle Biographical Information: Julia is currently a fourth-year student in the laboratory of Professor Abigail Doyle. Her research focuses on the development of enantioselective nucleophilic fluorination reactions enabled by cooperative catalysis. Undergrad: Columbia University, BA Chemistry and Creative Writing Justin Malinowski Sponsor: GlaxoSmithKline University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Advisor: Jeffrey Johnson (advisor) Biographical Information: Justin is currently a 4th year student in Professor Jeffrey S. Johnson's laboratory working on natural product synthesis and the development of new alpha-amination methodologies. Undergrad: Siena College, BS Chemistry (ACS) Lindsay Repka Sponsor: Genentech California Institute of Technology Advisor: Professor Sarah E. Reisman Biographical Information: Lindsay is currently a fourth year graduate student in Professor Sarah Reisman's laboratory studying new, enantioselective methods for the preparation of pyrroloindolines and unnatural amino acids. Undergrad: Barnard College, BA Chemistry Joseph Tucker Sponsor: Amgen Boston University Advisor: Prof. Corey R. J. Stephenson Biographical Information: Joseph is currently a fourth year graduate student in the lab of Prof. Corey Stephenson at Boston University studying the application of photoredox catalysis in the realm of synthetic organic chemistry. Undergrad: The College of William and Mary, BS Chemistry Adam B. Weinstein Sponsor: Organic Syntheses University of Wisconsin-Madison Advisor: Shannon S. Stahl Biographical information: Adam is currently a fourth-year student in Professor Shannon Stahl's laboratory investigating stereoselective Pd-catalyzed oxidative aminations of alkenes that are coupled to molecular oxygen as the sole stoichiometric oxidant. Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley, BS Chemical Biology Filename: FellowshipAwardees2011.docx Folder: /Users/bjmyers/Desktop/Fellowship Awardees Template: /Users/bjmyers/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content.localized/Templates.localized/Normal.dotm Title: Subject: Author: Myers, Brian Keywords: Comments: Creation Date: 11/17/16 12:21:00 PM Change Number: 2 Last Saved On: 11/17/16 12:21:00 PM Last Saved By: Myers, Brian Total Editing Time: 0 Minutes Last Printed On: 11/17/16 12:21:00 PM As of Last Complete Printing Number of Pages: 3 Number of Words: 458 (approx.) Number of Characters: 2,615 (approx.) .