The 2016 Graduate Research Fellowship awardees from the National Science Foundation were announced this week. This is a highly competitive award in which the NSF received 17,000 applications and awarded 2,000 fellowships nationwide. Congratulations Taylor, Cristian, and Luis!
Taylor M. Courtney: Covalent Protein Cross-Linking as a Fundamentally New Approach to Kinase Inhibition
Cristian A. Morales-Rivera: Computational Study and Design of Hypervalent Iodine reagents for C−H Functionalization
Luis A. Vázquez-Maldonado: Development of a Synthetic Immune System for Viral Infection
David G. Parobek, a University of Pittsburgh alum (BS, Chemistry) who is presently at Texas A&M University, also received an award.