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Learning Research Service Volunteer Engagement

Rachael Hankinson is an Honours Chemistry major from Lantz, Nova Scotia, a town halfway between Halifax and Truro. She is one of 26 science students at UPEI who were awarded an Undergraduate Summer Research Award (USRA) from NSERC (the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council) for 2008. Rachael's research project, Isolation and structural identification of bioactive compounds in sponge extracts, was supervied by Dr. Russ Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Marine Natural Products.

For more information: www.upei.ca/studentresearch/nserc/rachael-hankinson