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Associate Professor of Chemistry Aaron Leconte received a Cottrell Postbac Award of $50,000. The award is a post-pandemic initiative that supports research by undergraduate seniors working under faculty supervision for a year after graduation. Leconte will support postbac Marcell Simon, who is working on a project titled High-throughput Approaches to Biochemically Characterizing the C-terminal Domain of Firefly Luciferase.