Daniel Cohen Receives A.C.S. Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship

Daniel Tzvi Cohen, a fourth year graduate student in Professor Karl Scheidt’s laboratory has been awarded a Division of Organic Chemistry fellowship for 2011-2012. The specific sponsor for Daniel’s award is Organic Syntheses/Organic Reactions. This highly competitive national fellowship is awarded to 12 of the country’s best organic graduate students in their fourth or fifth year. Daniel’s graduate work focuses on the development of annulation strategies in N-heterocyclic carbene-catalysis. Daniel received his undergraduate degree from SUNY New Paltz in May 2007 and he is the fourth student in the Scheidt Research Group to receive the prestigious DOC graduate fellowship (Anita E. Mattson, 2005-2006, Troy E. Reynolds, 2007-2008, Eric M. Phillips, 2008-2009).

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