Gustavus Chemistry Department alumnae Annika Silverberg (’22) won a Howard P. Klein Early Career Excellence in Research Award from the University of Arizona. The Howard P. Klein Early Career Excellence in Research Awards are awarded to a Chemistry or Biochemistry graduate student who has demonstrated extraordinary success in research early in their graduate career. Annika’s presentation entitled “Monitoring Exchange of Cholesterol Between Nanodiscs by APCI” won one of two awards given this year at the Annual CBC Research Symposium. While at Gustavus, Annika studied the environmental fate of the herbicide dicamba under the direction of Dr. Amanda Nienow and presented that work at the National American Chemical Society Meeting in San Diego, CA. Annika started graduate school at the University of Arizona in the fall of 2022. Congratulations Annika!
