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Katherine Seley-Radtke Named to Jefferson Science Fellowship

Seley-Radtke pictured far right.

Katherine Seley-Radtke who received her PhD in Organic Chemistry from Auburn University in 1996, has been named to the prestigious Jefferson Science Fellowship.  Seley-Radtke is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and her current research involves drug discovery and development.

"While at Auburn Dr. Seley-Radtke was exceptional as a knowledgeable, well read and successful researcher and as a highly regarded classroom instructor," remarked her PhD advisor and COSAM Dean Stewart Schneller. "Since leaving Auburn I have had the privilege of following her career and she continues to excel. Thus, it is not surprising that she was selected for one of the prestigious JSP positions and it is particularly noteworthy that she was the only woman selected this year."

The Jefferson Science Fellowship initiates a fundamentally new relationship between the U.S. academic science and technology community and the U.S. Department of State.  Each Fellow will spend one year at the Department of State in Washington, D.C. in either a regional or functional bureau.  Assignments may include working with embassies around the world.

The Jefferson Science Fellowships are a partnership among American philanthropic foundations, The U.S. academic community and the United States Department of State.

When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were …

                                                                                                  Thomas Jefferson, March 3, 1818