Chemistry Graduate Students Score Well in NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Competition

Ms. Qiwen Su, a graduate student in Professor Jia Niu's research group, has been awarded a Graduate Resarch Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF).  This highly competitive fellowship program recognizes and provides 3 years of support to outstanding graduate students.  Ms. Su received the award for her project "CRISPR-mediated Intracellular Directed Evolution of RNA Aptamers."  For more information on the research being conducted in the Niu Research Group, please visit their website.

Professor Udayan Mohanty's graduate student, Mr. Yang Wang, reached the semi-finalist stage in the competition for his project "All-atom Structure Based Model of Group II Intron Dynamics with Explicit Treatment of Electrostatics and Mobile Ions."  To learn about Professor Mohanty's research, visit his website.