Ellicott City Native Wins Fifth Place at American Chemistry Society Contest

ST. MARY'S CITY, MD (05/01/2013)(readMedia)-- St. Mary's College of Maryland chemistry student and Ellicott City native Greg Trieger won fifth place at the American Chemistry Society's Speak Simply Undergraduate Research Poster Contest with his project "Novel Method for the Fluorination of Electron Rich Rings." The contest took place at the 245th American Chemical Society National Convention in New Orleans this past April.

The Speak Simply Poster Contest was sponsored by the ACS Chemistry Ambassadors Program, which encourages chemistry discussion between scientists and non-scientists and aims to improve awareness and public appreciation for the central role of chemistry in everyday life. Speak Simply contestants are asked to discuss their chemistry research projects with judges "simply, but compellingly." To do so, contestants must eliminate chemistry jargon and consider the overarching importance of their research to the non-scientific community.

The ACS National Convention is attended by tens of thousands of chemists and chemical engineers. The undergraduate poster session represents several hundred of the top undergraduate chemists in the country.