{"id":14937,"date":"2022-12-17T19:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/?p=14937"},"modified":"2024-05-12T11:27:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T11:27:52","slug":"the-uppsala-chemical-societys-grand-prize-for-the-best-masters-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/the-uppsala-chemical-societys-grand-prize-for-the-best-masters-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uppsala Chemical Society\u2019s grand prize for the best Master\u2019s thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221216_Chemical-Society-Uppsala_Award.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221216_Chemical-Society-Uppsala_Award.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14938\" width=\"205\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221216_Chemical-Society-Uppsala_Award.jpg 768w, https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221216_Chemical-Society-Uppsala_Award-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mark Dennis Retrato (on the left) and Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo (in the middle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Every year the Chemical Society in Uppsala recognizes the best degree projects in chemistry. This year, the Grand Award was rewarded to Siyuan Qui for his 2022 Master\u2019s thesis. His supervisor Mark Dennis Retrato (an EACH 2020 alumnus), accepted the award at a memorable ceremony on the 13<sup>th<\/sup> of December.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award was handed over by the 2022 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine, professor Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo (an Uppsala University alumnus). This award has been announced for many years by the Society (that started in 1927) after nominations and votings, and the student is presented with a diploma and a prize sum. Both the supervisor(s) and the student are also invited to the dinner with the Nobel laureates at the Uppsala Castle the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221216_Mark_Svante-Paabo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221216_Mark_Svante-Paabo-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14939\" width=\"222\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221216_Mark_Svante-Paabo-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221216_Mark_Svante-Paabo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/221216_Mark_Svante-Paabo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mark Dennis Retrato (on the left) and Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo (on the right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The title of this year\u2019s selected Master\u2019s thesis was &nbsp;&#8220;Determination of fatty acids in lipid samples by gas chromatography coupled with single quadrupole mass spectrometry&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark Dennis<\/strong>: \u201c<em>I am grateful for my student Siyuan Qiu, big congratulations for working in this project together. You really deserve this prize and recognition! I wish to thank my own supervisors as well: Jonas, Anna, Kumari, and Aida. This is for all of us involved in the project.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I want to thank the Swedish Chemical Society and Uppsala University for the recognition. More importantly, I wish to thank the Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine in 2022, Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo. You are indeed a great inspiration for me and more people<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Chemical Society in Uppsala recognizes the best degree projects in chemistry. This year, the Grand Award was rewarded to Siyuan Qui for his 2022 Master\u2019s thesis. His supervisor Mark Dennis Retrato (an EACH 2020 alumnus), accepted the award at a memorable ceremony on the 13th of December. The award was handed over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":14939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14943,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937\/revisions\/14943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/each.ut.ee\/EACH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}