Dr. Megan Sassin and Professor Annaliese Franz will be receiving the Women Chemist's Committee's "Rising Star" award in March at the ACS meeting in San Diego.  Megan is an alum of Reg Penner's group and one of the founders of the Iota Sigma Pi chapter here at UCI.  She is a research scientist at the Naval Research Labs.  Annaliese was in Keith Woerpel's lab and is now an assistant professor at UC Davis.