UNC Greensboro: We're Going To Need A Bigger Molecule

Greensboro NC

11 January, 2022

7:10 PM

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Press release from UNC Greensboro: Several years of hard work later, she has received a Goldwater Scholarship – one of the oldest and most prestigious STEM scholarships in the United States. Youngblood is the first Goldwater Scholar at UNCG in almost a decade. Youngblood is exploring chemical synthesis as an undergraduate researcher in the lab of organic chemist Dr. Kimberly Petersen. The first-generation college student is part of UNCG's prestigious NIH-funded MARC U-STAR program, which seeks to bring underrepresented students into science research careers. Youngblood hopes someday to have her own research lab, where she can also mentor students. "The reason I'm here is because I had mentors – from my high school chemistry teacher to the MARC U-STAR faculty – who believed in me and told me that I could do those things." This press release was produced by UNC Greensboro. The views expressed here are the author's own.