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Green chemistry cooks up a national award for UO doctoral student
Lallie McKenzie is given the 2008 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award for green chemistry, becoming the second national winner from Jim Hutchison's green chemistry/nanotechnology laboratory
University of Oregon doctoral student Lallie C. McKenzie has received national recognition for her research and educational efforts in environmentally friendly green chemistry. She was one of two U.S. doctoral students to receive the Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award, which honors outstanding student contributions to furthering the goals of green chemistry through research or education.
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1) About winning the Hancock award
2) About coming to the UO and doing green chemistry
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The 2008 co-winner was Arsen Simonyan, a doctoral student at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The winners each get $1,000 and a framed certificate. The award, given during a ceremony of the annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., is sponsored by the American Chemical Society's Division of Environmental Chemistry and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
"The award acknowledges Lallie's accomplishments in education and research in green chemistry and is an endorsement of the continuing success of our green chemistry program here at the University of Oregon," said Jim Hutchison, associate vice president of research and strategic initiatives.
McKenzie, a research assistant in Hutchison's nanotechnology lab, is the second UO student to win the award. Scott Reed, while a member of Hutchison's lab, won the award in 2000. He now is on the faculty at Portland State University.
McKenzie, who holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Yale University (1986) and a master's in science teaching from the University of Chicago (1989), changed career paths after teaching reading, math and science to middle school students in the Chicago public schools from 1989 to 1993. After a stint as a stay-at-home mom, she enrolled in a summer chemistry course at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and became hooked on the field and moved to Eugene.
In June 2002, she earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry, with honors, from the UO. A year later, she completed a master's degree in chemistry, specializing in polymers and coatings. She also has completed industrial internships through the UO's outreach program.
The Hancock Award honors the contributions of Kenneth G. Hancock, who was a pioneer in green chemistry. As director of the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation, Hancock emphasized the role of chemists and chemistry in avoiding environmental problems through the use of benign chemical synthesis and processing.
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1) About winning the Hancock award
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2) About coming to the UO and doing green chemistry and nanoscience