Harvard-bound Kiran Pendri ‘06 stands tall with a check for his $50,000 prize after taking second place in the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science & Technology on December 5th.
Pendri’s chemistry project, entitled “Macrocyclization Using Ring-Closing Olefin Metathesis: Synthesis of a 13-Member Dithiolactone,” incorporates recent Nobel Prize-winning research. On January 11th, Pendri was one of four students from Connecticut chosen as Semifinalists in the 65th Annual Intel Science Talent Search.
