Fourteen impressive KSC students presented at the 2010 Northeast Undergraduate Research and Development Symposium (NURDS) at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine, on April 17 and 18. Two of those students won awards there.
Elizabeth A. Neuhardt ’10 won an award for a top-ten poster presentation, “Synthesis of ProtonatedBis(imino)acenaphtheneCationsKatherine.” A report of her research has been published in the April 2010 edition of The Nucleus, the journal of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society.
Anna McLean ’11 gave the symposium’s fourth-best oral presentation, “Untangling the Passionflower Vines: Preliminary Insights on the Evolution of Passiflora Subgenus Decaloba, Based upon trnL-F Sequence.”
Keene State College students Jade Halsey, Jill Gormley, Jake Neal, Kelly Hideriotis, Amanda Izzo, Jeff Tretheway, Erika Brooks, Christin Gaudette, Gregory Drugen, Fred Brown, Nicolle Siddall, and Zack Martin were the other remarkable students who presented at the conference.