Farah Ousman '11 will spend the summer conducting research at Pfizer in Cambridge, MA.

Karolina Kosakowska will spend the summer conducting research at Biogen Idec in San Diego, CA.

Megana Dwarakanath '10 has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Ethiopia

Stephanie Aldrin '10 has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in India.

Julie Olson '10 has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Malaysia.

Rachel Dorset '10 will begin a job at Forma Therapeutics in Connecticut after graduation.

Leslie Herndon '10 and Alice Reznickova '10 will begin graduate study in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin in the fall.

Keturah Edwards '11 will spend the summer conducting research at Novartis in Cambridge, MA.

Alex Page '12 will spend the summer conducting research at the Duke University marine lab, and was awarded a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship beginning in the fall of 2010.

Compounds with the imide linkage, such as phensuximide, an anticonvulsant, are common in natural products and drugs. The synthesis of these materials are well known, but often require several steps and are not atom economical. Zhang et. al. report a catalytic synthesis of imides that is efficient and economical. They treat a 1,4-diol with an amine and RuH₂(PPh₃)₄ and 1,3-diisopropylimidazolium bromide in base as catalysts and isolate the imide. The suggested mechanism involves the formation of an hemiaminal from the amine and an aldehyde produced from the diol. See Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2010, 49, 6391-6395.