{"id":4472,"date":"2024-01-26T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/partridge\/?page_id=4472"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:23:36","slug":"mckenna-young","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/partridge\/group-members\/mckenna-young\/","title":{"rendered":"McKenna Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4482\" src=\"https:\/\/sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/partridge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/McKenna-website-pic-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/partridge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/McKenna-website-pic-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/partridge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/McKenna-website-pic-1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>McKenna (she\/her) is a fourth-year undergraduate student who is working on the synthetic chaperone project and her research focuses on improving the solubility of spiropyran dendrons to allow them to be used in biological systems. Outside the lab, McKenna enjoys Irish dance, running, and traveling.<\/p>\n<h6>Education<\/h6>\n<p>2026 (expected)- B.S. Chemistry (minor in Spanish)<\/p>\n<h6>Awards and Honors<\/h6>\n<p>2025 \u2013 Junior Scholar Award, University of Rochester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKenna (she\/her) is a fourth-year undergraduate student who is working on the synthetic chaperone project and her research focuses on improving the solubility of spiropyran dendrons to allow them to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":356,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4472","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>McKenna Young - Partridge Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sas.rochester.edu\/chm\/groups\/partridge\/group-members\/mckenna-young\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"McKenna Young - 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