Kristin J. Smith, a chemistry major, is one of four undergraduate students nationwide to receive the American Chemical Society’s I.M. Kolthoff Enrichment Award.<\/p>\n
The award recognizes outstanding undergraduate research in analytical chemistry. Smith, a senior from Plattsburgh, N.Y., has participated in Dana Professor of Chemistry Thomas Wenzel’s research into molecular chirality, or “handedness” \u2014 a phenomenon in which some molecules of a given compound are mirror images of the remaining molecules, with potentially critical reactive differences. For instance, “right-handed” molecules of the compound might have beneficial medical properties, where their “left-handed” equivalents would be toxic.<\/p>\n
Smith is researching the use of amino acids to impart specific chirality. The Kolthoff award is the second she has received for this work. Last spring, a $5,000 fellowship from the pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer Inc. enabled her to continue her research at Bates through summer 2001.<\/p>\n
The American Chemical Society’s Division of Analytical Chemistry presents the Kolthoff award to encourage talented undergraduates to pursue further studies in analytical chemistry. The $500 award supports recipients’ travel to the society’s national meeting to present their research. This is the second time a student of Wenzel’s has won the award. The first winner was Jolene Thurston ’00, of Post Mills, Vt., who received the Kolthoff in 1999.<\/p>\n
Smith and this year’s other Kolthoff recipients will travel in April to the society’s annual gathering in Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n
A professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Minnesota, the late I.M. Kolthoff was a 20th-century leader of the profession, author of numerous influential textbooks and a major researcher in electroanalytical chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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