{"id":1575,"date":"2012-11-29T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:39:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T18:39:12","slug":"undergraduate-quarter-fall-2012-monica-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2012\/11\/29\/undergraduate-quarter-fall-2012-monica-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate of the Quarter – Fall 2012 – Monica Best"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monica Best has been selected as an undergrad chem major of the quarter for Fall 2012. \u00a0Monica grew up in Portland, OR and attended La Salle High School. Her junior and senior-year chemistry courses in high school solidified her interest in Chemistry. \u00a0When she visited OSU, she was impressed with the Chemistry Department and specifically credits Chris\u00a0Pastorek with telling her all the great things going on here. \u00a0She is in her junior year right now \u2013 working in Adjunct Chemistry faculty member Jennifer Field\u2019s laboratory. \u00a0She is unsure\u00a0if she plans to attend graduate school, but hopes to stay in Oregon (or the Northwest) after she graduates. She is a fan of the TV crime dramas such as NCIS (particularly the lab tech\u00a0Abby Sciuto) which has inspired her interest in the forensic science-chemistry option (with a toxicology minor). \u00a0She has enjoyed participating in the Chemistry Club within the\u00a0Department \u2013 particularly the laid back feel and the expectation that the students do the work. \u00a0Her favorite courses so far have been Experimental Chemistry with Emile Firpo and John\u00a0Loeser where she tells us that the student gets to be the \u201cbrain of it\u201d \u2013 deciding what they are going to do. \u00a0She is taking Physical Chemistry this term and really has enjoyed Professor\u00a0Glenn Evans\u2019 passion and enthusiasm in the classroom. Outside of chemistry, she likes going to OSU football games, swimming and waterskiing in the summer time and crafting\u00a0\u201deverything\u201d from picture frames to scrapbooks. \u00a0She also recently joined the OSU Flying Club to learn how to fly. \u00a0It is talented and diverse students like Monica that help to make the OSU Chemistry program so strong!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monica Best has been selected as an undergrad chem major of the quarter for Fall 2012. \u00a0Monica grew up in Portland, OR and attended La Salle High School. Her junior and senior-year chemistry courses in high school solidified her interest in Chemistry. \u00a0When she visited OSU, she was impressed with the Chemistry Department and specifically… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1235743],"tags":[187037,102670,102669,187034],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-undergraduate-of-the-quarter","tag-chris-pastorek","tag-emile-firpo","tag-john-loeser","tag-undergraduate-of-the-quarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}