Chemistry Students Share $25,000 Grant
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 27, 1999
Joe Wills
530-898-4143
Chemistry Students Share $25,000 Grant
California State University, Chico’s chemistry department announced it has chosen five students to be awarded $2,500 each as a part of a $25,000 grant from Roche Bioscience that encourages students’ interest in organic chemistry.
Recipients Lisa Hegewisch, Lindsay Jacks, Lori LaRiviera, Dana Ray and Marty Wallace will be participating in research programs during the summer of 1999. The students will work on a synthesis of novel organic molecules of interest to the pharmaceutical industry.
Lindsay Jacks and Dana Ray will be working with chemistry professor Donald Alger on the synthesis of a series of molecules that may have potential use as fungistats to inhibit the growth of molds in breads and cereals.
Lisa Hegewisch, Lori La Riviera and Marty Wallace will accompany chemistry professor David Ball to UC, Santa Barbara this summer, where they will be allowed to participate in a variety of on-going projects at the university’s chemistry laboratories.
Roche Bioscience is the Palo Alto-based division of the international pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. Part of Roche’s motivation for awarding the funds was CSU, Chico’s track record of sending students to graduate school and then to work in the laboratories of prominent researchers at pharmaceutical companies.
A luncheon in honor of the awardees and Dr. Deborah Reuter from Roche Bioscience, who arranged the donation, will be held Friday, April 30, on the Julia Morgan House lawn.
For more information, contact chemistry department secretary Barbara Paquin at 530-898-5259.
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