After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Western NY Inorganic Symposium (WNYIS) was held this year at the University of Rochester on August 4th. This meeting brought together inorganic chemistry faculty, students, and postdocs from the University of Buffalo, the University of Rochester, and Cornell University to present and discuss their research. The meeting was comprised primarily by students and postdoc oral presentations, thus providing a valuable training opportunity. The meeting also had two poster sessions, thus providing a low-barrier opportunity for students to participate in a regional scientific meeting. The Cornell local section was delighted to help to sponsor this symposium by providing prizes for student and postdoc presentations. Faculty judges selected eight poster prize winners, and one oral presentation winner. 8 students (shown below) earned a $50 award, while Melissa Bollmeyer received $100 for her talk, “Elucidating the Mechanisms of Cofactor Maturation and Hydroxylamine Oxidation by Cytochrome P460”. We would like to congratulate the winners on their selection, and thank all of the presenters for taking the time to talk about the hard work they’ve put into their science.
