Every two weeks, Science reviews recently published articles and designates the most significant "Editor’s Choice." Stevenson explained, "This type of award is very unusual for an undergraduate to obtain."

Kiesewetter gained interest in annulene research after taking a class as a sophomore with Stevenson, who has been working with annulenes for the past two decades. This year, Kiesewetter, Reiter, and Stevenson discovered the second member of the class of compounds—triphenylene. The group's discovery was important because the new triannulenylene was produced via a very different procedure from that used when the first (and only before the Kiesewetter article) was made 124 years ago. This new synthetic procedure should open the door and allow many more members of the triannulenylene class of compounds to be synthesized. The group's discovery is not only of major theoretical interest, but will also have important pragmatic applications, according to Stevenson.

Kiesewetter is in his final semester at Illinois State University, planning to graduate in December. While at Illinois State, Kiesewetter has published four scholarly articles in major chemistry journals: the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Physical Chemistry. He earned the Presidential Scholarship in 2001 and the Bone Scholarship in 2004. He plans to enter graduate school to study experimental/physical chemistry.