Over 200  students from 43 East Coast colleges converged on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, on Saturday, October 20, for the Fifteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences. University of Delaware students did very well receiving eight first or second place awards in several Biology or Biochemistry and Molecular Biology groupings.

University of Delaware had 22 Participants in the 2012 UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Left to right: Monica Pirigyi, Helen Schmidt, Kara Martin, Kathryn Hopkins,  Cullen Worsh, Mike Estephan, Kathleen Seip, Kahina Ghanem, Christine Dang, Anne Sanger, David Matera, Chenxi Huang, Doug Kenny, Rebecca Gripp, Megan Dumas, Justin Teesdale, Allison McCague, Seth Ritter, Anna Walter, Kevin Chang, Zach March, and Michelle Francis

Christine Dang 2nd Place Biological Science 4A	Megan Dumas 1st Place Biological Science 4A	Mike Estephan	Michelle Francis
Kahina Ghanem	Rebecca Gripp	Kathryn Hopkins and Annie Sanger	Chenxi Huang
Douglas Kenny	Zachary March	Kara Martin	David Matera
Allison McCague 2nd Place Biological Science 5A	Monica Pirigyi	Helen Schmidt 2nd Place Biological Sciences3B	Kathleen Seip
Justin Teesdale 1st Place Chemical Sciences 2B	Anna Walter	Cullen Worsh	Zach March & Seth Ritter Ritter 1st Place Biochemistry and Molecular Bioolgy 2A Not shown: Kevin Chang 1st Place Biological Sciences 5B