In Professor Kate Queeney nomination letter, she describes Lesley-Ann Giddings as the hardest working student she has ever met. According to Professor Queeney, it is Lesley-Ann’s love of chemistry that makes her work so hard. In her other letters of recommendation, the faculty at Smith College call Lesley-Ann an outstanding student who consistently ranks at the top of her class, a team leader and a superb mentor of other students. Lesley-Ann is not only excellent in the classroom she is also involved in numerous activities including undergraduate research and a peer-mentoring program for underrepresented students. As an undergraduate researcher, Lesley-Ann spent a summer at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD where she characterized the presence of alkaloids by GC-MS and infrared spectroscopy. Her future plans include pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry where she wants to combine her interests in physical and organic chemistry and apply them to biomedical problems.
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