The Undergraduate Research Center is celebrating 20 years of supporting our students. Our own Prof. Cannon and Marc Kawada are featured in this video celebrating its success.

Senior members Marc, Kayla, and Yuri attended the symposium at UC Irvine last week to share their work and learn about research beyond the undergraduate level. Yuri was one of the five awardees for the Poster Prize for this event!

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Photos by UCI Chemistry

Another summer, another URC conference in the books! We had a fantastic ten weeks of summer, and we are definitely not ready to part with our beloved former members, Anne Marie and Daniel, who stayed for their final summer in the Cannon Lab. Anne Marie is off to Harvard and Daniel is off to UC Irvine, where they will both continue to do amazing work. We wish them the best of luck in graduate school!

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Kayla, Marc, and Yuri had a great time presenting their research this week at the 46th National Organic Symposium at Indiana University, and Yuri was awarded the Undergraduate Poster Prize for her session! Jeff was also featured on a panel about academic careers at PUIs and had the opportunity to speak about his experience leading a group of undergrads. See you in two years for even more exciting chemistry, NOS!

Daniel and Anne Marie presented at the ACS National Meeting in Orlando this week! It was great to share our work with chemists from around the world and learn about new advances in the field.

Congratulations to Marc Kawada ’20, one of this year’s Fletcher Jones Science Scholars at Occidental! With the support of this prestigious award, Marc will continue his research developing methods to make new carbon-carbon bonds using visible light-harvesting catalysts.

Hailey, Daniel, Marc, and Anne Marie attended the Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research this weekend at Pasadena City College. We had a great time sharing our research with our peers!

Congratulations to Natalie, Tina, Molly, and Jeff! Their work on the diastereoselective synthesis of unnatural amino acids has been accepted to Journal of Organic Chemistry!

Congratulations to the Bulletproof Gang! Nick, Katherine, Anne Marie, Max, and Jeff’s paper on dual Lewis acid/photoredox- catalyzed ketyl radical additions to vinylogous carbonates has been accepted to Organic Letters!

Another summer in the lab has come to an end, but we had a great time presenting our research to our peers at the URC’s Summer Research Conference. We are looking forward to continuing our work into the semester! Good luck to our former members, Katherine and Scott, who stayed for one final summer before they begin graduate school in the fall!