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Narayan Named Goldwater
Honorable Mention
Adams Named Truman
Scholarship Finalist
Natasha Narayan of Auburn, a COSAM junior
and Honors College student who is majoring
in biochemistry, received an honorable mention
during the 2015 Goldwater selection process,
one of only 50 students nationwide given this
distinction. Under the guidance of Bradley
Merner, an assistant professor in the Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Narayan’s
research is focused on the development of short,
streamlined, synthetic approaches to creating
tricyclic nucleic acids.
Jessica Adams of Smiths Station, Alabama,
was named a finalist for the Harry S. Truman
Scholarship, one of the nation’s top academic
awards. Adams, is a College of Sciences and
Mathematics and Honors College student majoring
in microbial, cellular, and molecular biology with
a minor in hunger studies. She is an IMPACT
project coordinator; an Auburn University Gl ؘ[