Education Notebook: Purdue Fort Wayne student earns award at international conference

A Purdue University Fort Wayne student who discovered and identified a Carbon 102 molecule as a junior earned an award at an international conference – an astonishing achievement considering most student participants were working toward a master’s degree or doctorate, a news release said.

Faculty member Steven Stevenson invited Angel Bishop, now a senior, to present at the Electrochemical Society meeting in Canada following the discovery in his lab, the release said.

Bishop received one of three third-place awards in the Carbon Nanostructures and Devices division – an award that Stevenson said boosts Bishop’s career options.

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