Katie Murphy Receives 2015 Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Katie Murphy, Stanford University B.S. with Honors in Chemistry and Class of 2015, is the recipient of this year's Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.  Katie's thesis was on the "Sub-Cellular Characterization of the Pre-Meiotic Maize Anther: An Analysis of Cell Wall Components, Chloroplasts and Reactive Oxygen Species in Somatic Tissues," chemistry; advised by Virginia Walbot, professor of biology, and Lynette Cegelski, assistant professor of chemistry.

During her academic career at Stanford, Katie was an ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow and received an Honorable Mention - Goldwater Scholarship.  Katie was also a Science in Service Education Fellow, a member of Alpha Chi Sigma and a TA for several chemistry courses at Stanford.  Katie will be pursuing a Ph.D. at UC Davis this fall.