{"id":3943,"date":"2016-05-20T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T21:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2016-11-15T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T00:48:17","slug":"undergraduate-quarter-spring-2016-dang-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2016\/05\/20\/undergraduate-quarter-spring-2016-dang-nguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate of the Quarter – Spring 2016 – Dang Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dang-nguyen\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dang Nguyen has been named one of our Spring 2016 Undergraduates of the Quarter and we couldn\u2019t be happier for him.\u00a0 Dang was born in Colorado, but his parents moved to Portland when he was three-years-old, so he considers himself an Oregonian.\u00a0 He attended Clackamas High School where he was first exposed to Chemistry by his OSU Alumni Chemistry Teacher, Mr. Sytsma.<\/p>\n

Being one of the best engineering schools in the country and fairly close to home, OSU quickly became the clear choice for him however, during his freshman year, everything changed.\u00a0 Dang commented on one of the turning points in his life, speaking about Dr. Richard Nafshun, who was his General Chemistry at the time.\u00a0 \u201cHe has a teaching style that made me want to learn more about chemistry.\u00a0 The more chemistry I took, the more I enjoyed it; so, I switched.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dang has been doing undergraduate research with Maduka Ogba in Professor Paul Cheong\u2019s lab for almost two years.\u00a0 He said they were working on non-classical hydrogen bonding research using computational chemistry, something he found very interesting.\u00a0 At the end of the academic year, they were working on a manuscript that Dang is hoping will reach publication.<\/p>\n

He was unable to list just one favorite instructor, but was pretty adamant that his favorite class was experimental chemistry.\u00a0 \u201cExperimental chemistry is more of an application and hands-on experience. I like this class because it\u2019s a bridge between the two core concepts that one needs to fully understand a subject; theory and implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his spare time, Dang is the president of the Chemistry Club.\u00a0 He also is an undergraduate TA for the general chemistry 12x and 23x sections and worked in the mole hole tutoring students.\u00a0 Upon graduation, he will be attending graduate school here at OSU, in the College of Education in the hopes of getting his Masters.\u00a0 He plans on teaching high school chemistry and math in the future; saying his teaching style is to use a lot of demos and applications.\u00a0 He feels like high school is the best place to do that.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Dang for being named a Spring 2016 Undergraduate of the Quarter.\u00a0 We\u2019re proud to add you to this growing list of great students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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