June 1, 2010
On June 21, Laura Allen, received the Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award at the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Conference in Washington DC. This national award honors outstanding student contributions in green chemistry, a field that promotes environmentally sound chemical procedures and processes. Laura’s work telescopes a three step organic chemical process of pharmaceutical interest into one step, a strategy that also avoids the toxic reagents previously required. Laura is a fourth year graduate student in Dr. Crabtree’s lab in the Chemistry Department. Dr. Hancock was an active advocate emphasizing the role of chemists in solving environmental problems in an economically viable way.