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Aaron Wrobleski, graduate student, received a fellowship from the American Chemical Society for his research in the field of medicinal chemistry. Wrobleski is the first medicinal chemistry student to win the fellowship in organic chemistry.
Student awarded fellowship
Bv Sarah Hill
Kansan staff writer
Aaron Wrobleski made University of Kansas history when he was awarded a distinguished organic chemistry fellowship by the American Chemistry Society.
More importantly, Wrobleski, Oglesby, Ill. third-year graduate student, made national history because he is the first medicinal chemistry student in the history of the society to win an organic chemistry fellowship. The society awarded 16 fellowships this year.
Jeff Aubé, professor of medicinal chemistry and Wrobleski's graduate mentor, nominated Wrobleski for the award last year, and said that the award showed the promise of
Wrobleski's work.
"The award is for significant work by an organic chemistry graduate student," he said.
organic培养基 give Wrobleski won the award for his work in Aubé's lab on a molecule found in the skin of South American poison dart frogs.
Because the molecule only exists in small quantities in nature, Wrobleski works to make a synthetic form to use in laboratories. Aubé said that the synthetic form is necessary to make enough to test the substance's properties. The molecule has never been tested in a lab to see if it carries any useful medical properties.
"You don't get a lot of these materials," he said. "You can't just go around harvesting frogs."
After he makes enough of the substance, Wrobleski sends it to a pharmaceutical company for tests. The company will see how the substance reacts with the body.
The fellowship, sponsored by Abbott Laboratories, will pay Wrobleski a stipend of $19,000 for his studies next year. After he graduates in December of 2003, he will work as a post-doctorate student in organic chemistry at the University of California-Irvine.
"It's a really big honor," he said. "It not only says good things about the department as a whole, but also about the good chemistry in our lab."
Contact Hill at shill@kansan.com. This story was edited by Justin Henning.
Rural areas wait for ice storm aid
The Associated Press
About 132,000 people were still without power in Kansas from last week's ice storm, and some areas served by small electric companies may have a long wait in store.
It could be up to two weeks before power is restored in some rural areas, said Allen Zadorozny, manager for the Caney Valley Electric Cooperative, which serves Chautauqua County and most of Elk County.
The co-op has about 1,000 downed electric poles, he said.
"It's real slow going because there's so much damage," Zadorozny said.
Eldon Bedene, director of Crawford County Emergency Management, said residents teamed with 10 members of the Kansas National Guard, who brought three dump trucks to help clear debris from the storm.
Discarded trees and limbs were stacked 10 feet high along neighborhood curbs and stretched for blocks throughout the county. Bedene said.
"They didn't even make a dent in it," he said. "It looks like a tornado went through Crawford County."
The number of people still without power was down from 177,000 on Friday,the adjutant general's office said.
Officials from Kansas Emergency Management and the Federal Emergency Management Agency began to survey the damage in the Kansas City metro area Saturday.
Joy Moser, representative for the adjunct general's office.
said the crew would move south through the state to estimate the loss to utility companies, roads and other infrastructures.
The estimation could help determine whether insurance will cover losses and whether communities need additional assistance, possibly from the federal level, Moser said.
Help came to other counties Saturday from the Kansas Department of Transportation. About 30 crews of volunteers removed storm debris from Allen, Elk, Wilson and other counties, she said.
Gov. Bill Graves declared a state of emergency for 22 counties, mainly in the southeast area of the state. The governor ordered the Kansas Division of Emergency Management to help local communities deal with the storm.
Around the state,175 people were in 20 emergency shelters opened by the American Red Cross.
The busiest shelters were in Garnett, where 62 people sought shelter Friday, and Arkansas City, where 50 people staved the night in a shelter.
The Red Cross has not opened that many emergency shelters in Kansas since the 1993 floods, representative Andrea Anglin said.
Jim Phillips, meteorologist with WeatherData, said the weather in the next few days shouldn't hamper the cleanups throughout the state. Temperatures today are expected to be in the lower 40s.
"It's above freezing, and that's all that matters," he said.
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