Trent Winning Streak Continues at Annual Chemistry Conference Having won at least one prize at every conference they have participated in for the past 6 years at the Southwestern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference, Trent students continued their winning streak this year bringing home two prizes and one honourable mention. Matthew Thompson won First Prize in the Theoretical/ Physical/ Inorganic Chemistry Session for his research on "Interactions of Ethene with Early First and Second Row Transition Metals: A Matrix Isolation Spectroscopic Study" with Dr. Mark Parnis as his thesis advisor. Eric Escobar won Third Prize in the Biochemistry Session for this research "Insertion of Iron Heme into the Heme-deficient W188F Mutant of the Oxygenase Domain of iNOS" with Dr. Steven Rafferty as his thesis advisor. Dewald Delport won Honourable Mention in the Biochemistry Session for his work on the "Mutational analyses of the Giardia histone H4 gene promoter" with Dr. Janet Yee as his thesis advisor. Students Karen Foster, Ken F.D. Hoard, Marcella Liem, Michelle McDowell, Andriy Plugatyr, and Daryl Smith also participated in the conference, which is sponsored by the Chemical Society of Canada. Officials noted the judging was challenging due to the high calibre of research-and the enthusiasm with which students presented their information. Over 50 students from 10 different universities presented their research projects in four parallel symposia at this year's conference held on Saturday, March 23 at Ryerson University. Back to the Trent Report main page

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