{"id":661,"date":"2013-11-09T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/undergradresearch\/?p=661"},"modified":"2013-11-09T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:07:43","slug":"uroygwini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/2013\/11\/09\/uroygwini\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Researcher of the Year Nigel Gwini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/files\/2013\/11\/1017196_10202117460960867_463972381_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-662\" alt=\"1017196_10202117460960867_463972381_n\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/undergradresearch\/files\/2013\/11\/1017196_10202117460960867_463972381_n-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mentor<\/strong>: Greg Powell<\/p>\n<p><strong>Department<\/strong>: Chemistry and Biochemistry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Dr. Powell Nominated<\/strong> <strong>Nigel<\/strong>:\u00a0(a) Nigel is a coauthor of a paper that was recently published in Journal of Cluster Science, an international peer-reviewed chemistry journal.<\/p>\n<p>(b) Nigel is an excellent presenter of his research results. He was awarded FIRST place in the undergraduate division of the 2012 Meeting-in-Miniature of the American Chemical Society DFW Section at the University of Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>(c) Nigel has a remarkable passion for research. He is highly motivated and extraordinarily responsible. I have been mentoring undergraduate research students for 28 years. Nigel is the first and only one who has said to me, \u201cPlease compile a list of my strengths and weaknesses as a research assistant in your lab. What do I need to work on to become a better researcher?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(d) Very few ACU undergraduates have spent as much time doing research as Nigel has. In addition to spending many hours a week on research during five different semesters, he has participated in both the 8-week Summer Research Institute within the ACU Department of Chemistry &amp; Biochemistry and the 10-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>(e) Nigel is a leader on the ACU campus. He has been involved in a variety of other activities including:<br \/>\nStudent Worker in the ACU Library<br \/>\nTutor for the Department of Chemistry &amp; Biochemistry<br \/>\nLYNAY<br \/>\nInternational Students Association<br \/>\nChemistry Club<br \/>\nHospital Volunteer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mentor: Greg Powell Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Why Dr. Powell Nominated Nigel:\u00a0(a) Nigel is a coauthor of a paper that was recently published in Journal of Cluster Science, an international peer-reviewed chemistry journal. (b) Nigel is an excellent presenter of his research results. He was awarded FIRST place in the undergraduate division of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1980,76761],"tags":[76732,76729,76767],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-stem","tag-chemistry-and-biochemistry","tag-student-researcher","tag-undergraduate-researcher-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}