Edwin Homan Awarded NSF Predoctoral Fellowship

Undergraduate chemistry major Edwin Homan has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees. The National Science Foundation aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering approximately 900 graduate fellowships in this competition.

Edwin has been a member of the research group of Prof. Ronald K. Castellano since 2003, during which time he has participated in both the UF University Scholars program and the NSF REU program. For the period January-August 2005, Edwin worked in the research group of Nobel Laureate Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn at L'Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France, where he studied helical metallo-supramolecular complexes. He will join the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University in the fall as a graduate student in organic chemistry or chemical biology.