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Undergraduate Student Research Awards

Call for Applications for
2023 Undergraduate Student Research Awards
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Submissions due Monday April 3, 2023

The Mid-Hudson Section of the American Chemical Society invites applications for the 2023
Mid-Hudson valley ACS Undergraduate Student Research Awards from student researchers who plan
to present their work at the 2023 symposium. Outstanding submissions will be selected to each
receive a monetary award. This is a separate application and is not required of all students
presenting posters only those students who wish to be considered for this very prestigious award need
apply.

Rationale
The Mid-Hudson Section wishes to reward undergraduate students who choose to write a short
summary about their research and scholarship activities. The paper is to be written for a general
scientific audience who is not familiar with the specifics of the research but who does have a
chemical background.

Criteria
Research work should be completed by a student currently enrolled (2022-2023 academic year) as an
undergraduate at one of colleges in the Mid-Hudson ACS area. Students must also present their work
at the 2023 Mid-Hudson ACS Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium at Bard College on April
21, 2023.

Application Format and Procedure:
All papers submitted must be primarily chemistry, not biology or physics.
Format: The paper must be written in Microsoft Word with a font type of New Times Roman and a
font size 12. Margins should be set to the Narrow setting under page layout/margins in Word. The
description part of the paper may not be longer than two pages; however, the Acknowledgments and
References may cause the paper to run longer. Any papers longer than the requested two written
pages will not be considered.


When compiling the report it is very important to consider that your paper will be critiqued by people
who have no background in your specific area of research although they will be professional
chemists. Therefore, you need to explain your research to them in terms they can understand without
the specific background you have been immersed in while doing the research. This is the most
important aspect of the paper for many of the reviewers. If the reviewers do not understand the
research paper, they will generally give it a poor review regardless of the validity of the actual
research. The paper should be written in normal scientific format and divided into appropriate
sections and must have the following order:
1) Title with authors: The title of the paper should be at the top with the authors underneath. The
student submitting the paper for the award must be clearly indicated by bolding and underlining that
author.
2) Introduction: Keep in mind that the judges for the paper come from a wide variety of chemical
backgrounds and will almost assuredly not be familiar with your research or your area of
specialization. You need to clearly outline what you are doing and why it is being done.
3) Experimental: Just a brief review of your experimental design and data is needed.
4) Results and Discussion: This is your chance to WOW the judges with your fabulous work.
Remember the judges will not be familiar with your work so you must educate them. Now, after
years of learning and studying, is your chance to educate us the reviewers. Make sure you include all
chemical structures, equations and reactions. Remember, although you have spent many hours
intimately involved in this research and thus all the reactions and chemicals are as familiar to you as
your best buddies, they will be new to the judges. The better the judges understand exactly what you
are doing and what you have accomplished the better your chances at winning the award. Do not be
shy about drawing chemical structures and writing out the reactions as these are some of the best
ways to help other chemists understand exactly what your research is about.
5) Conclusion: This needs to be consistent with the introduction and should obviously quickly
summarize what your research has accomplished and if applicable where it will be going in the near
future.
6) Acknowledgments and References: This part of the paper may exceed the two-page limit and
should be as extensive and comprehensive as needed.
7) In Summary: Again, it is important to remember the judges are not experts in your area of research
so your job is to educate them on your research and impress upon them how exciting and interesting
the work you have been doing actually is. This does not mean you have to be overly technical in your
writing as it need to be understood by a more general audience. You should include all the relevant
chemistry being careful to include all important chemical structures and reactions but make sure the
paper is readable and flows well. The judges, who are chemists, volunteer their time to judge this
competition and will not spend excessive amounts of time trying to decipher cryptic or non-coherent
writing. As a parting note, remember the judges must be able to understand exactly what you have
accomplished so a poorly organized and poorly worded paper will not impress the judges. Good luck
on your submission and the judges are looking forward to learning about your research.

Submission procedure:
Applications should be sent by e-mail as an attached Word document to Dr. Chi Nguyen e-mail:
chi.nguyen@westpoint.edu by Monday April 3, 2023. Please indicate in the subject line of the e-mail
that you are submitting an application for the URS Student Research Award so it does not accidently
get deleted.

2022 Undergraduate Student Research Paper Awards

The Mid-Hudson Section of the American Chemical Society is pleased to announce the recipients for the 2022 Mid-Hudson valley ACS Undergraduate Student Research Awards from student researchers who presented their work at the 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium. Research work was completed by students currently enrolled (2021-2022 academic year) as an undergraduate at one of the colleges in the Mid-Hudson ACS area.  These Outstanding submissions were selected and each student received a monetary award. 
​Brianna Flood, SUNY New Paltz, Correlating D8-BPA Retention in Regenerating Planaria with Phenotypic Effects
Justus Gabriel, USMA, Therapeutic Strategies to Mitigate the Toxicity of Biothreats, Ranging from Misfolded Protein Oligomers to Pore-Forming Toxins
Melissa Hernandez, Vassar, Antioxidant properties of bee propolis and an important component, galangin, described
by X-ray crystal structure, DFT-D and Hydrodynamic Voltammetry
Sandra Yu, Vassar, Formononetin - A Potential Antidiabetic Compound with Antioxidant Activity

2021 Undergraduate Student Research Paper Awards

The Mid-Hudson Section of the American Chemical Society is pleased to announce the recipients for the 2021 Mid-Hudson valley ACS Undergraduate Student Research Awards from student researchers who presented their work at the 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium (virtual). Research work should be completed by a student currently enrolled (2020-2021 academic year) as an undergraduate at one of the colleges in the Mid-Hudson ACS area.  Outstanding submissions will be selected to each receive a monetary award. 
X-RAY, ANTIOXIDANT, AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF TWO NATURAL PRODUCTS TO EXAMINE THEIR ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY BY BINDING TO FALCIPAIN-2, A KEY ENZYME IN THE PARASITE HEMOGLOBIN DEGRADATION PATHWAY 
Ijeoma Okoye*, Francesco Caruso, Miriam Rossi
Department of Chemistry, Vassar College
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Mechanistic insights into the inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 main protease by a natural phenolic compound found in Theobroma Cacao L.: Can chocolate assist in treatments of COVID-19? 
Naike Ye, Francesco Caruso, Miriam Rossi*
Department of Chemistry, Vassar College
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Comparison of Porous and Nonporous Silica Nanoparticles for Biomedical Application 
Abigail Graham, Brooke Finnessy, and Chi Nguyen 
Department of Chemistry and Life Science, United States Military Academy, WestPoint, NY
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Synthesis of organometallic chromophores to investigate novel materials for reverse saturable absorption
Nanki Verma,1 Danielle Cross,1 Jack Harrison,1 Thomas N. Rohrabaugh Jr,2 Ryan M. O’Donnell,2 William M. Shensky,2 Victor A. Jaffett,1 Chi K. Nguyen1
1. Department of Chemistry and Life Science, United States Military Academy, WestPoint, NY
2. U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD 

2020 Undergraduate Student Research Paper Award Recipients

The Mid-Hudson Section of the American Chemical Society is pleased to present the following Mid-Hudson ACS Undergraduate Research Paper Awards to local student researchers who submitted research papers on their current work.   A panel of judges from the Section determined these to be of the highest caliber.  The student's name, college and paper title are listed below.
Henry Liu, Vassar College
Synthesis, Characterization and in vitro Anticancer Screening of (O-isopropyldithiocarbonato-S)-triphenylphosphine-gold(I)
 
Thomas Alvermann, United States Military Academy at West Point
Conductive Noble Metal/Silk Fibroin Films for Bioelectronics Applications

Ryan Kreiser, United States Military Academy at West Point

Development of preventative Measures to Counteract the Cytotoxicity of Protein Misfolded Oligomers
 
Payton Boylston, United States Military Academy at West Point
Rheology of CHOCOLATE
 
Eunice Koh, United States Military Academy at West Point
Synthesis and Characterization of Conductive Nonporous Silica

Recipients of 2019
Undergraduate Research Paper Awards

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Undergraduate Research Awards were presented
to student researchers during the 2019 Undergraduate
Research Symposium



Mark H. Jaskot (United States Military Academy at West Point):
 
3D Layer-by-Layer Electrostatic Assembly of Graphene-Noble Metal Thin Films for Energy Storage and Conversion Applications
 
​Grant R. Hall (United States Military Academy at West Point): 
Viability of a Rhodamine-B Derivative as a "Turn-on" Chemosensor for GX Agents
 
Ross Poulin (United States Military Academy at West Point):
Chemical Crosslinking Graphene Oxide with Deoxyribonucleic Acid and Protein Reaction Centers to Create Aerogels for Use in Biosensors

​2018 Undergraduate Student Research Awards
Paper Submissions

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The Mid-Hudson Section of the American Chemical Society presented four 2018 Mid-Hudson valley ACS Undergraduate Research Awards to local student researchers who presented their work at the 2018 undergraduate poster symposium.
The Mid-Hudson Section rewarded undergraduate students who wrote a short summary about their research and scholarship activities.  The following  students received a monetary award and were recognized at the symposium for their outstanding submissions:

Aakriti Ramayani    "Efficient Synthesis of Iodo-Alcohols"  

Aron Sulovari   "Synthesis, Characterization and Computational Analysis of Ruthenium-p-cymene Metal Complexes with Hispolon Derivatives"

Kelly Wen  "Structural Characterization and Investigation of Antioxidant Properties of Emodin and Osthole, Constituents found in Goji Berries and C. Monnieri and used in Traditional Chinese Medicine"

Madeleine D. Breshears    "Synthesis of carbon nanotube-DNA hybrid molecules and characterization of DNA-drug interactions using Raman spectroscopy"


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