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THE ERIC B. ABRAMSON SCHOLARSHIP Lynelle Takihashi is a second-year chemistry graduate student in the Stephen Leone group. As a physics undergraduate at Berkeley, she showed an early interest in multidisciplinary research by working with the Richard Saykally group in the chemistry department on the spectroscopy of small water clusters. She currently is working with the Advanced Light Source at LBNL on using spectrometry to image cell surfaces. “The Eric B. Abramson award came as a great surprise for me,” says Takihashi, “and I am grateful for the honor. The award built my confidence as a new member of the chemistry department, and it has allowed me to charge forward with my studies and research.” Lynelle Takihashi
The Abramson Fund was established by family and friends of Eric Abramson, a graduate student who died in 1973. The fund has grown over the years and now supports two fellows per year.
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THE ERIC B. ABRAMSON SCHOLARSHIP Gabriela Schlau-Cohen was raised near Philadelphia, PA, in the same area as the Eric B. Abramson family. Schlau-Cohen attended Brown University as an undergraduate and graduated with a Sc.B. degree in chemical physics. At Berkeley, she is a member of Graham Fleming’s research group. The Fleming group is well known for studying the interactions between chromophores and the nanoscale engineering principles of natural photosynthetic light harvesting systems. These processes are ultrafast and require the use of femtosecond spectroscopy, where one femtosecond (10-15 seconds) is one millionth of one billionth of a second. “The Abramson award,” says Schlau-Cohen, “both helps fund our research and personally provides an important boost to my career.”
College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen
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