Two CSN graduate students recently received awards at the annual conference of the National Organization for the professional advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). UW-Madison student Izzy Foreman-Ortiz won a NOBCChE poster award, which provides $500 and support to attend Pittcon in 2019, for her poster, “Anionic Nanoparticles disrupt Gramicidin A (gA) Activity in Model Phospholipid Bilayers.” University of Iowa student Diamond Jones received an Advancing Science Conference Grant to attend the conference and present her talk, “Modeling the Dissolution of Compositionally-Tuned Complex Metal oxides from First Principles.”