Cottrell Postbac Awards Support Research Year for New Graduates
Nine Cottrell Scholars have received Cottrell Postbac Awards of $50,000 each in the first year of a new initiative to provide undergraduate seniors working under their supervision the opportunity to continue a research project for a year after graduation.
“This experience will give strong undergraduate researchers more time and experience to see themselves as scientists,” said RCSA President & CEO Daniel Linzer. “Whether they go on to graduate school or find jobs in STEM-related fields, they will be able to strengthen their research portfolios, contribute to projects, and help train the next undergraduates in their research groups.”
The awards are the latest addition to RCSA’s portfolio of Cottrell Plus awards, which advance the skills, knowledge, and research of Cottrell Scholars throughout their careers.
“These outstanding undergraduate mentors are developing a diverse new generation of scientists,” said Senior Program Director Silvia Ronco. “As their labs emerge from the pandemic and all its disruptions, we hope this support will offer some continuity and help strengthen their important contributions to the larger scientific enterprise.”
Recipients of 2022 Cottrell Postbac Awards are:
CS 2020 David Strubbe (postbac Elsa B. Vazquez)
Physics, University of California, Merced
Raman Spectroscopy and Friction in Doped 2D Materials
CS 2017 Shane Ardo (postbac Enrique Surio)
Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
Assessing the Suitability of Marcus Theory to Explain Driving-force-dependent Rates of Heterolytic Water Dissociation in Bipolar Ion Exchange Membranes
CS 2005 Adam Urbach (postbac Sara Trauth)
Chemistry, Trinity University
Supramolecular Controlled Release of Protein Drugs
CS 2021 Jeanine Amacher (postbac Jadon Blount)
Chemistry, Western Washington University
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Sortase Enzymes
CS 2019 Ryan McGorty (postbac Philip Neill)
Physics, University of San Diego
Micro- and Macro-rheology of Topologically-active DNA-based Materials
CS 2009 Rory Waterman (postbac Evan Beretta)
Chemistry, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Phosphinidene Transfer Reactions to Launch a Career in Research
CS 2018 Grace Stokes (postbac Elliott Anderson)
Chemistry, Santa Clara University
Surface Characterization of Peptoids at the Liquid/Air Interface
CS 2009 John Gilbertson (postbac Allison Teigen)
Chemistry, Western Washington University
Reduction of the Pervasive Environmental Pollutants Nitrate/Nitrite via Redox-Active Complexes
CS 2008 Katherine Plass (postbac Qi Luo)
Chemistry, Franklin & Marshall College
Post-synthetic Transformation of Copper Sulfide Nanoparticles to Design Novel Multicomponent Nanoparticles
