Examples of Successful Cottrell Scholar Award Educational Plans

In an effort to improve the chances of success for future Cottrell Scholar applications, we have chosen successful educational plans which are representative of the best we have received in the past few years. They illustrate a variety of styles and approaches that convinced us of the PI's passion for teaching in the college setting. Successful plans are multifaceted and may be directed toward the undergraduate or graduate level. We offer these as examples that illustrate a scholar's understanding of his/her institutional culture and setting. Consequently, these cannot and should not serve as templates for future submissions.

Kathryn L. Haas, Cottrel Scholar 2016, Chemistry, Saint Mary's College, Transporting Cu(I) as Cargo and Using Cu(III) as a Killer Cofactor: Histidine-rich Motifs in Ctr1 and Histatin 5 Control Cu Oxidation State and Reactivity

Aaron M. Leconte, Cottrell Scholar 2016, Chemistry, Claremont McKenna College, Biochemical Characterization and Engineering of Luciferases Through Statistical Coupling Analysis

Jeanine Amacher, Cottrell Scholar 2021, Chemistry, Western Washington University, Investigating Sortase Enzyme Activity and Specificity Using Natural Sequence Variation and Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction

Rachel Bezanson, Cottrell Scholar 2021, Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Building Bridges in the Steel City: Leveraging the Nearby to Follow Galaxies Across Cosmic Time

Thomas Gianetti, Cottrell Scholar 2021, Chemistry, University of Arizona, Developing a Photo-Rechargeable and Symmetrical Organic Redox Flow Battery

Christopher Hendon, Cottrell Scholar 2021, Chemistry, University of Oregon, Inorganic Defects in Metal-Organic Frameworks.

Alexandra Velian, Cottrell Scholar 2021, Chemistry, University of Washington, Synthesis of Functional Metal Chalcogenide Lattices Using Symmetry-Encoded, Atomically Precise Clusters