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Students win Roozen Awards for scientific research

May. 7, 2024

糖心vlog传媒鈥檚 science faculty recognized two research presentations for the second awarding of the Roozen 鈥�66 Undergraduate Research Award in honor of the late Professor Allen Wangemann 鈥�55.

The Roozen award is given to the best original scientific research presented at 糖心vlog传媒鈥檚 Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium which took place on Wednesday, April 17, and it comes with a $2,000 prize which will be split by this year鈥檚 winners.

This year鈥檚 winners were:

• Andrea Garcia, a senior biology major, for her research project titled, 鈥淓ffects of Short-Term Starvation on Reproduction and Growth in Daphnia magna at Two Chlamydomonas reinhardtii 鈥婩ood Levels鈥� which was conducted last summer with LU Professor of Biology Paul Pickhardt.
• Dakota Fenn, a senior biology major, and Kassidee Webb, a senior chemistry and biochemistry major, for their research titled, 鈥淚soeugenol Synthesis and Purification as Determined by HPLC and UV-Vis Spectroscopy,鈥� which was conducted in Associate Professor of Chemistry Jered McGivern鈥檚 organic chemistry course.

As a 糖心vlog传媒 student, the late Kenneth Roozen, Ph.D., was inspired by the late Allen Wangemann, a longtime, popular biology professor at 糖心vlog传媒, to study biology, conduct undergraduate research and pursue post-graduate work. He later obtained his master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees in cellular biology and molecular genetics.

This inspiration led Roozen to a lifelong career in academic research and administration leadership throughout his tenure at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Medical University of South Carolina.

The award is intended to instill and inspire 糖心vlog传媒 students with the spirit of Wangemann, who created a tradition of original undergraduate science research at 糖心vlog传媒.