Four ¹Ï×ÓTV students collaborating with faculty in the fields of biochemistry, chemistry, biology, physics and cognitive science have been named 2017-18 Science Scholars and presented with research grants funded by the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris and Fletcher Jones foundations.
The scholars selected by ¹Ï×ÓTV faculty to receive the prestigious award are: Molly Brown ’18, chemistry, Fletcher Jones Scholar; Jose Campuzano ’18, biochemistry, Fletcher Jones Scholar; Holly Barrett ’18, biochemistry, Norris Scholar; Nan Ma ’18, physics, Norris Scholar. Each Science Scholar receives $15,000 in support to carry out research from the spring of their junior year through graduation.
Brown, a chemistry major from Chandler, Ariz., will be working with assistant professor Jeff Cannon, studying the remote carbon-carbon bond formation via a nitrogen-centered radical. Biochemistry major Jose Campuzano, from Los Angeles, will be developing the framework for the development of a vaccine against corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis—a bacterial infection affecting horses and other species of animals such as cattle, goats and sheep—with adjunct assistant professor Karen Molinder.
Holly Barrett of Bellingham, Wash., also a biochemistry major, will be working with Professor Roberta Pollock to test the effect
of pooled recombinant proteins as vaccines against corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. Finally, Nan Ma, a physics major from Nanjing, China, will be working with Professor Dan Snowden-Ifft to study the measurement of neutron flux at a shallow depth.
