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Biochemistry major Amanda Ohs ’03 (St. Paul, Minn.) and chemistry major Abby O’Connor ’03 (Newton, N.J.) received praise for the EXCEL Scholars research they presented last weekend at the 20th annual Esther B. and Bingham J. Humphrey Memorial Symposium at the University of Vermont.
The students were accompanied at the symposium by Chip Nataro, assistant professor of chemistry, who mentored them in their EXCEL projects. The event included a series of lectures by some of the foremost chemists in the country, including Alan Bard, this year’s winner of the Priestly Medal, the highest award given by the American Chemical Society.
Ohs gave a poster presentation entitled “Ruthenium cluster compounds containing 1,1′-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene (dppf): An electrochemical analysis and the crystal structure of Ru3(CO)11dppfRu3(CO)11.” O’Connor’s poster was entitled “Analysis of Group VI Metal Carbonyl Compounds Containing 1, 1′-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene (dppf) by Electrochemistry.”
“The students got to discuss their work with some of the best chemists in their fields,” says Nataro. “They obtained some excellent insight into their work and received some very nice compliments. Dr. William Geiger — in my opinion the best organometallic electrochemist in the country — was very impressed that this was the work of undergraduates.”
A National Leader in Undergraduate Research. Abby O’Connor ’03 made a presentation on her collaborative research with Chip Nataro, assistant professor of chemistry, at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society.