{"id":4516,"date":"2016-11-30T14:01:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T21:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2017-10-31T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:57:47","slug":"undergraduate-quarter-fall-2016-nathan-coddington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2016\/11\/30\/undergraduate-quarter-fall-2016-nathan-coddington\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate of the Quarter – Fall 2016 – Nathan Coddington"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Recently, Department Chair, Rich Carter sat down with Chemistry Undergraduate, Nate Coddington to discuss what brought him to OSU, why Chemistry, and how he feels about being named one of the Fall 2016 Undergraduates of the Quarter.<\/p>\n

Nate grew up in Eugene, Oregon, where he attended Willamette High School in the Bethel school district. Nate participated in Willamette\u2019s International Baccalaureate (IB) program.\u00a0 Nate reported that the difference between AP and IB is breadth vs depth. AP teaches the surface of many topics, while IB intensively teaches a few select topics.\u00a0 Nate spent his sophomore through senior years in high school participating in their honors and IB chemistry courses.<\/p>\n

Nate chose OSU because he did not want to go to an out-of-state school, and because his brother was already here, studying Nuclear Engineering.\u00a0 He moved to Corvallis to live with his brother while he was transitioning into college life \u2013 commenting \u201cit was great having someone who understood his sense of humor while relating to the struggles of college life.\u201d\u00a0 While Nate admits he started as a BB major to support his goal of ultimately becoming a dentist, upon entering the program it quickly became apparent to him that Chemistry was the better choice for his interests and his career path.\u00a0 So, he re-declared, with the premed option, and never looked back.<\/p>\n

Nate told us that his favorite class was, hands down, Organic Chemistry.\u00a0 \u201cIt was just so full of great professors,\u201d he said.\u00a0 But the teacher that resonates the most for him was Dr. Vince Remcho.\u00a0 \u201cDr. Remcho taught my Honors Gen Chem class,\u201d Nate said.\u00a0 \u201cHe was always so happy when teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, Nate is doing research in Dr. Sandra Loesgen\u2019s lab.\u00a0 Her research group focuses on natural products, specifically bio-active compounds like penicillin.\u00a0 Nate\u2019s research is a spin-off of Dr. Loesgen\u2019s PhD thesis on epigenetic modifications.\u00a0 He\u2019s hoping his research will result in unlocking new genes to produce previously unseen compounds.\u00a0 He\u2019s hoping to be able to obtain some usable results very soon so he can start writing his honors thesis on this topic.<\/p>\n

Nate still plans to enroll in dental school after graduation.\u00a0 His mother is a hygienist and he says he loves working with and helping people.\u00a0 Dentistry, he says, has always just clicked with him.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s so revered in our culture and I\u2019ve always just thought, \u2018I want to be this.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 He would like to do some job shadowing before graduation but says it is been difficult finding a slot due to doctor\/patient confidentiality.\u00a0 He is not giving up yet though.<\/p>\n

In his spare time, Nate is the President of the OSU Chapter of the National Society for Collegiate Scholars (NSCS), a community service and professional development based society that is currently working toward being recognized as an Honor Society.<\/p>\n

Students like Nate are part of what makes our Department so great.\u00a0 We could not be more proud of him and wish him nothing but success in his future endeavors!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, Department Chair, Rich Carter sat down with Chemistry Undergraduate, Nate Coddington to discuss what brought him to OSU, why Chemistry, and how he feels about being named one of the Fall 2016 Undergraduates of the Quarter. Nate grew up in Eugene, Oregon, where he attended Willamette High School in the Bethel school district. Nate… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1235743],"tags":[1235446,1235739,184499,199265,208179],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-undergraduate-of-the-quarter","tag-nate-coddington","tag-nscs","tag-rich-carter","tag-sandra-loesgen","tag-vince-remcho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4518,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}