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Ben Naab is a Goldwater Scholar
Ben Naab is one of two chemistry majors at MSU to receive a 2009 Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship will give each recipient up to $7,500 a year for tuition, fees, books, plus room and board.
Ben is a junior who works in the laboratory of Prof. Hien Nguyen where he is focused on developing new stereoselective glycosylations which are performed in the absence of neighboring group assistance. A glycosylation is the chemical process of linking saccharides, sugar molecules, with various acceptors.
He has also done research as an REU student at the University of Minnesota with Prof. Bill Tolman in the summer of 2008. The goal of this research was to understand the fundamental chemical processes that occur in copper oxidases and oxygenases. The results of this work have set the stage for further synthetic and biological studies and have been published in the Journal of Inorganic Chemistry.
Ben will spend summer 2009 in a research lab at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
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