Undergraduate chemistry majors and underclassmen strongly considering a major in chemistry were invited to participate in the Summer Research program of 2006, funded by the NSF. This summer program ran for 10 weeks under the direction of Professor Shenda Baker (See building of research group paramid) . We had students conducting research, learning about the chemistry profession, and honing their presentation skills. They also participated in a variety of social activities, such as a BBQ, chili cook-off, donut Fridays, ice cream socials, t-shirt dyeing and a good ole game of Duopoly.

Professor Shenda Baker (See finished research group paramid)
Claudia Candito ’07 (University of Cincinnati) - The Development of Natural Biopolymers as Antibacterials
Katie Douglas  ’07 (Eureka College) - The Development of Natural Biopolymers as Antibacterials
Nicholas Evans ‘’07 - Microwave Detection
Katie Gould ’05 (University of Virginia) - Endotoxin Removal from Shrimp Shells
Margie Ho ’08 - Spectrophotometric Method to Measure Functionalization of Biopolymers
Joshua Kao ’08 (with Professor Tom Donnelly) - Nanoparticles out of Polymers
Sarah Moore ’08 - Crosslinking Chitosan
Katie Peterson (Williams ’07)  - Guanidinylating Chitosan Using Pyrazole
Ben Schiller ’08 and Timmy Wu ’07 (Upland High School) - Characterization of Poly(butadiene-b-ethylene oxide) as Langmuir Blodgett Films
Andrew Stewart ’08
Kyle Zarzana ’07 - Modification of Plastics with Chitosan
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Professor Robert Cave with Professor Hal Van Ryswyk (group pic)
John-Andrew Kouzelos ‘07 - Modification of Plastics with Chitosan
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Professor Karl Haushalter (group pic)
Ken Loh ’08 -Trapping of the Hnth-Nucleosomal DNA Schiff Based Intermediate
Janina Moretti ’07 - Cross-Linking Histones and DNA to Prevent Transient Site Exposure
Katie Mouzakis ’07 - Characterization of Variants of Human 8-oxoguanine DNA Glycosylace 1 (hOGG1) Identified in Cancer Patients
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Professor Kerry Karukstis with Professor Gerald Van Hecke (group pic)
Kristen Chellis ’08 - Determination of the Phase Diagram of Biologically Relevant Liquid Crystals
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Professor Gerald Van Hecke
Minseok Jang ’08 - Excess Thermodynamic Functions of Alcohols and Alkane Mixtures
Aurora Pribram-Jones ’08 - A Systematic Study of Structure and Physical Properties of the Smectogenic 2,7-diacyl Fluorenes
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Professor Hal Van Ryswyk
Amanda Hickman ’07 - Electronic Coupling in Metalloporphyrin Oligomers
Scott Rodriguez ‘07 (St. Mary’s University) - Solid Phase Organic Synthesis of Ruthenium Porphyrin Oligomers
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Professor David Vosburg (group pic)
Kathryn Poindexter ’07 (Pomona) - Work toward a Biomimetic Synthesis of Davanone
Sam Sobelman ’08 - Work Toward a Biomimetic Synthesis of Endiandric Acids A-H