Minh Nguyen, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences, has received the 2014 Sabin Metal Ron Bleggi Award from the International Precious Metals Institute. Nguyen accepted the award at IPMI’s 38th Annual Conference in Orlando, Fla.

Nguyen received the award for his research pertaining to polymer supported silicon reagents for Pd catalyzed cross coupling reactions. At Penn, he works in the lab of Amos B. Smith III, the Rhodes-Thompson Professor of Chemistry.

IPMI is an international association of producers, refiners, fabricators, scientists, users, financial institutions, merchants and private and public sector groups within the precious metals community. The Institute was organized to provide a forum for the exchange of factual information on all aspects of precious metals and precious metals technology.