Very excited to announce that Rachel was awarded a 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry to perform research in our lab over the summer. She’ll be part of a nation-wide cohort of fellows who participate in joint professional development activities this summer and will travel to California in the fall to tour an industrial chemistry company and present her work. Congratulations Rachel on this remarkable accomplishment! You can read the announcement here and learn more about the program:
NCAS Meeting 2025
Another great time at the NCAS meeting for the Reynolds lab. Laura presented a poster on her Design to Data project, and Rachel and Inayat won first place and second place Derieux awards, respectively, for their oral presentations! Fellow GAINS member Ashley also won an award! It was a great weekend!
Wiggins 2025
The Reynolds lab had a good showing at the Wiggins Symposium this year, with Inayat and Rachel both giving oral presentations. Great job to all the presenters!
December Graduation 2024
Two students from the Reynolds lab, Sumiya and Alex, graduated this weekend! We’ll miss you in the lab but wish you the best in all the exciting things you have planned for the future!
Faculty Ligtning Talk
I had a great time participating in our library’s faculty lightning talk series this fall. I presented on our research engineering thiamine-dependent enzymes for chemical synthesis. It was also really fun learning about the research of my colleagues from other fields.
Tarhelium Feature
This was a fun feature on my work with hosting ACS Project SEED students for summer research that was published in the NC-ACS section newsletter, the Tarhelium. Project SEED is a great program and I really encourage high school students to take a look, as well as professors to consider hosting a student!
Here is the feature:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13tESWxGmatqT9rGRvjYpiJuEb05_WM3F/view
And here is the Project SEED website:
Summer Research 2024
Had a blast this summer working with Rachel as part of Campbell’s Howard Research Fellows program and Kyra as part of ACS Project SEED! They made great progress and learned a lot! Looking forward to their presentations coming up, and ready to continue the work this school year!
Rachel giving the Bradford assay a good stare to scare it straight
Those E. coli colonies can’t hide from Kyra!
NSF LEAPS-MPS Award
Very excited to announce that we were awarded a Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS) Grant from the NSF! We’ll be receiving $250,000 over the next 2 years to support our work using thiamine-dependent for asymmetric catalysis. A major goal of the project is to broaden participation in STEM by providing students with greater opportunities for research here at Campbell. We’re excited about the impact this grant will have on our research, and especially the benefits it will bring to our students! Here is the link to the Campbell News release:
You can also read more about the work in the abstract on the NSF website:
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2417808&HistoricalAwards=false
Yarbrough Grant
Congratulations to Rachel on being two for two on grant applications this spring! She was awarded a Yarbrough grant from the NC Academy of Science to fund our research on thiamine-dependent enzymes! We are grateful for the support and look forward to getting to work!
Overcoming the Status Quo Award
Excited to announce that I was awarded an Overcoming the Status Quo Award from Campbell University in recognition of my work supporting students of color in STEM through the GAINS (Growing Alliances in STEM) mentoring program. I am excited to continue working to grow and improve the program for our students in the years to come! For more information about the GAINS program, see our website and follow our Instagram page for the latest updates!