The Reed Thesis<\/h2>\n
During your final year, you will plunge headlong into an intellectual adventure\u2014the senior thesis. Undertaken with support from a faculty adviser, the senior thesis is your opportunity to explore a problem or answer a question that holds particular significance for you. (read more<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n For some seniors, this adventure may be more than ‘intellectual,’ it may also involve coming face-to-face with a life-threatening disease that attacks millions of humans every year: malaria.<\/p>\n This year one member of the Class of 2017, Rose Gonoud<\/strong>, took advantage of a special opportunity to synthesize anti-malarial drugs in the experimental chemotherapy laboratory of Prof. Michael Riscoe<\/strong><\/a> at OHSU. You can read more about Rose and how this came to pass at “Chem major battles malaria parasite<\/a><\/strong>“<\/strong> (Sallyportal blog, 24 Apr 2017).<\/p>\n Rose Gonoud ’17<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n To give full credit where credit is due, Rose’s opportunity came about when Lisa Frueh ’15<\/strong>, a Reed chemistry alum who was working in the Riscoe lab, approached her supervisor, Dr. Aaron Nilsen<\/strong><\/a> [chemistry, 2013-14], with a crazy idea: if Nilsen and Riscoe would provide lab space and a project to a current Reed senior, Frueh would volunteer to provide day-to-day training and direction in laboratory procedures for Rose on top of her regular duties.<\/p>\n The Gonoud-Frueh partnership worked beautifully from Day 1. As Lisa told me by email, “It was such a fun and rewarding experience–being in a teaching\/mentor position always reminds me why I love the scientific process and being in the lab. <\/em>Congratulations on sending another class of qualified chemists out into the world!”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is a Reed thesis? Search online and you might come across: The Reed Thesis During your final year, you will plunge headlong into an intellectual adventure\u2014the senior thesis. Undertaken with support from a faculty adviser, the senior thesis is … finish reading Rose Gonoud ’17 Tackles Drug-Resistant Malaria<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-current-students","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rose](\"http:\/\/www.reed.edu\/reed_magazine\/sallyportal\/assets\/images\/rose-gonoud-17.jpg\")