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Students celebrate Bi Visibility Day
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Andrew Rosenthal/KANSAN Two KU students, Anne Lynn (second from left) and Emily Smith (third from left) were recognized for being awarded the Astronaut Scholarship Friday afternoon. Two former astronauts, Steve Hawley (second from right) and Sam Gemar (far left) presented the awards and spoke about their experiences being astronauts.
sandy drag about both after astronaut Sam Gemar presented them with the Astronaut Scholarship.
The scholarship is awarded to a limited number of students each year who have shown great promise in the fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics, according to the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation website. The scholarship was created with the intention to keep the U.S. on the cutting edge of technology.
Overland Park received the scholarship for her research and work in the field of chemical engineering, while senior Emily Smith of Olathe received the scholarship for her research in physics.
Senior Annie Lynn of
ambassador that was giving the tour worked in Dr. Tang's lab, which is how I got involved there," she said. "They do X-ray crystallography on viral proteins. What we're looking at are what viral proteins look like
"I came up here as a high school senior for a campus tour, and the
Lynn said her journey into chemical engineering began during her senior year of high school after a visit to the University.
to do is take a protein from another more stable virus and fuse it with Hep C, which will hopefully allow us to work with it more efficiently."
Smith's research, on the other hand, took her from Kansas all the way to Geneva, Switzerland, where she help conduct physics research at CERN, a nuclear research center there.
"I actually started doing physics research with professors Baringer and Bean the summer before my freshman year," she said. "This stuff is pret-
you're actually helping out with is the computational aspect, since the theoretical side is so, so complex," she said.
Gemar, who was a crew member on three different NASA missions, presented Smith and Lynn with their certificates on behalf of the ASF. Former astronaut Steven Hawley, who is also a University alumnus and professor of physics and astronomy, also attended the presentation.
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