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UD undergraduates earn recognition at regional research symposium
9:17 a.m., Nov. 7, 2014--Nineteen undergraduate science students from the University of Delaware presented their research on Oct. 25 at the 17th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences, a competition that drew nearly 250 students from 14 states.
UD students competed in 18 of the 36 groupings at the symposium, held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and received five first-place and four second-place awards.
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The students' attendance at the symposium was sponsored by the University's Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Undergraduate Science Education Program.
“This continues a tradition of excellence established by UD students at this competition” over the past several years, said Hal White, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and director of the HHMI program at UD.
White and five other faculty members — David Usher, professor, Gary Laverty, associate professor, and Carlton Cooper, assistant professor, all of biological sciences; Jacqueline Fajardo, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry; and Angelia Seyfferth, assistant professor of plant and soil sciences — accompanied the students.
Seyfferth was a student participant and award winner at the 2002 symposium, when she was an undergraduate at Towson University.
First-place winners, their categories and faculty supervisors are:
Hannah Anderson, Biological Sciences Group B, Deni Galileo
Matthew Fischer, Biological Sciences U, Erica Selva
Thomas Keane, Chemical Sciences Y, Joel Rosenthal
Molly Peters, Biological Sciences E, E. Fidelma Boyd
Becky Pollack, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology EE, Patricia Martin-DeLeon
Second-place awards went to:
Gabriel Gregorzak, Chemical Sciences DD, Mark Baillie, Alenka Hlousek-Radojcic and Fajardo
Brooke Palus, Biological Sciences D, Selva
Jay Subramoney, Biological Sciences N, Sharon Rozovsky
Hanna Wastyk, Biological Sciences A, for work done at Dartmouth
Also presenting at the symposium:
Jackie Clarizio, supervised by Hlousek-Radojcic, Fajardo and Baillie
Andre Freligh, supervised by John Jungck
Lauren Genova, supervised by Catherin Leimkuhler Grimes
Kelli Kearns, supervised by Seyfferth
Jasmin Philip, supervised by Rozovsky
Tom Rivas, supervised by Grimes and Brian Bahnson
Troy Rubenstein, supervised by Melinda Duncan
Dominic Santoleri, supervised by Rozovsky
June Teichmann, supervised by Kali Kniel
Sarah Yannarell, supervised by Julia Maresca
Photo courtesy of Hal White