72 new members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Among them is Kevan Shokat, Reed ’86, currently a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UC San Francisco.
Since this is the time of year when seniors are filing their finished theses, it is interesting to go back and look at Kevan’s. The Reed library catalog describes this document as “49 leaves” carrying the title, “Synthesis of a precursor of PRCPCP, a non-hydrolyzable analog of phosphoribosylpyrophosphate (PRPP)”. Ron McClard served as Kevan’s thesis advisor.