Undergraduate News

Pinkhassik Group on cover of Chemical Communications

  A paper from the Pinkhassik Group was featured on the cover of Chemical Communications. Drs. Sergey Dergunov and Eugene Pinkhassik — working with collaborators from Saint Louis University — uncovered evidence for freely diffusing ground-state atomic oxygen, an elusive species whose existence in solution was proposed by never proven. This study used hollow porous nanocapsules […]

McNair Scholars Present Research at Annual Poster Exhibition

When Sarah Beckett Cleveland ’19 (CLAS), a biological sciences major, wanted to get involved in science research, she wasn’t sure she could make it work. She was financing her own education through academic-year jobs, and helping to support her mother in her hometown of Windsor. But she heard about the McNair Scholars program for undergraduate […]

Undergraduate Student Awards

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS) AWARD Presented to the top graduating senior. Vincent Pistritto   ACS DIVISION OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY AWARD Presented to a student who displays an aptitude for a career in Analytical Chemistry. Lacie Dube   ACS DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY AWARD Recognizing achievements by an undergraduate in organic chemistry pursuing a career in […]

Meet Vincent Pistritto, Class of 2018

  Vincent Pistritto BS, chemistry; BA, music   Hometown: Woodbury, Connecticut Extracurriculars: Member of UConn Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra; student coordinator with Honors Initiatives for Prospective Students (HIPS) Scholarships: Dr. Victor Rizza Scholarship, Dr. Charles E. Waring Chemistry Scholarship, James L. and Shirley A. Draper Scholarship, William R. Granquist Jr. Memorial Scholarship; William P. O’Hara Endowed Scholarship; […]

Chemistry Students Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

The following students in Chemistry have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and most widely recognized honors society, celebrating achievement in the liberal arts and sciences. Congratulations to: Halle Barber Nicole Gomez Mark Johnson Aaron Cesar Lopes Jessica Elena Ortegon Ayushi Sanjay Pathak Zachary Daniel Stempel […]

UConn Chemistry REU Symposium 2017

The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program, funded via the National Science Foundation, allows undergraduate students the opportunity to spend their summer conducting research at a REU host institution. Students spend approximately 10 weeks working closely on a research project with faculty members and graduate students. Students will also have the opportunity to utilize the research equipment and […]