Three very brave souls volunteered to help Prof. Topczewski get this lab up and running! Two undergraduates from UMN, Vicky Suding (middle) and Rami Shaker (left of Goldy) took on this challenge, as well as incoming graduate student Amy Ott (far left). Amy went to Carroll University and worked with Prof. McMahon on the development of enantioselective organocatalytic methods for the nucleo-acylation of alkenes.