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February 9, 2006 -
The Chemical Society of Washington awarded
Megan Carroll (C’06)
and Morgan L. Deacon
(C’06) with the
College Chemistry
Achievement Award.
 The Chemical Society of Washington awarded
Megan Carroll (C’06) and Morgan L.
Deacon (C’06) with the College Chemistry
Achievement Award. In recognition of outstanding
achievement in college chemistry, the CSW
awards its College Chemistry Achievement
Award to a senior majoring in Chemistry or
Biochemistry.
Megan Carroll, a Chemistry
major and an outstanding scholar-athlete, performed
undergraduate research for one year in the
Swift lab where she initiated a project examining
the crystallization of monosodium urate, a
material most often implicated in the disease
gout. Through her detailed in vitro crystallization
work, she has been able to demonstrate a possible
clinical correlation between lead poisoning
and the growth of urate crystals. This work
was supported in part by a highly competitive
Summer 2005 GUROP (Georgetown Undergraduate
Research Opportunities Program) fellowship.
In her first year, Morgan
L. Deacon, a biochemistry
major from Philadelphia,
started her quite productive
undergraduate research
in the Tong lab where she
studies nanomaterials.
She has co-authored a paper
published in the Journal
of the American Chemical
Society in 2004 and
was the leading author
of another paper appearing
in Synletters in
2005. Morgan also presented
her research at the undergraduate
research poster session
during the ACS annual meeting
in D.C. last August. Additionally,
Morgan was a recipient
of the GUROP Fellowship
(2004) and of the Adams
Summer Fellowship (2005).
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