Undergraduate chemistry majors and underclassmen strongly considering a major in chemistry were invited to participate in the Summer Research program of 2007, funded by the NSF. This summer program ran for 10 weeks under the direction of Professor Adam Johnson.  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.

ENTIRE CHEMISTRY SUMMER RESEARCH GANG PIC

Professor Shenda Baker 
Dustin McCarren '08 (University of Cincinnati) and Ian Wright '09 - Generating Polymer Nanoparticles
Sarah Moore '08 - Nanoporous Whiffleballs, Golf Balls and the Future of Microscopic Sports Equipment
Taylor Neiman  '09 - The Influence of Hydrophobic Dyes on the Two-Dimensional Structures of Diblock Copolymers
Rachel Nishimura '09 -Synthesis of fluorescent chitosan using a water soluble rhodamine B derivative
Sam Sobelman '08 - Inhibition of the Shiga toxin: Synthesizing a Gb3 Receptor Analogue
Timmy Wu '11 (Harvard)- Comparison of Diblock Copolymer Films Prepared by Langmuir-Blodgett and Drop Deposition on a Single Wafer

Professor Robert Cave and Professor Hal Van Ryswk (SEE PIC)
Hufsa Ahmad '10 - Synthesizing Ruthenium Porphyrin Dimers
Megan Pennington-Boggio '08 (MIT) - A Solid Support for the Modular Synthesis of Molecular Wires
Glennis Rayermann' 09  - Synthesis of Osmium Porphyrin Dimers for Experimental Studies of Metal Coupling

Professor Bill Daub and Professor Robert Cave
Senna Vine '09 - Comparison of Theoretical and Experimental Studies of the Claisen Rearrangement 

Professor Karl Haushalter (SEE PIC)
Ethan Sokol '10, Ken Loh '09, Fang-Yuan Chang '07 - Trapping the hOGG1:nucleosomal DNA complex

Professor Adam Johnson (SEE PIC)
Lauren Hughs '09 - Titanium Ligand Catalyzed Reactions
Diana McAnnally-Linz '08 (Anges Scott College) - Enantioselective Hydroamination with Chiral Ligands
Minh Nguyen '08 (University of La Verne)- Asymmetric  Catalytic Hydroamination of Ligands Derived from Phenols and Primary Amines
Andrew Stewart '08 - Synthesis of a Third Generation Tethered Ligand

Professor Kerry Karukstis
Jonathan Litz '09 and Matthew Garber '09 - Electrostatic Interactions of Azo Dyes and Micelles

Professor Kerry Karukstis and Professor Gerald Van Hecke (SEE PIC)
Alison Lee '09 and Christina Snyder '09 - Determination of the Binary Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Phases Formed by n-Decyl-β-D-Glucoside in Water
Kristen Chellis '08 - Determination of Phase Diagrams of Biologically Relevant Liquid Crystals

Professor Gerald Van Hecke 
Joshua Cobb '09 - Phase Diagrams of Binary Mixtures of the Homologous Series of 4’-n-alkyl-4-cyanobiphenyls
Judy Hines '09 - Inducing Metallomesogenic Phases in Water-n-Octyl-β-D-glucopyranoside Mixtures
Trevor McQueen '09 - Using the Equal Gibbs method to generate re-entrant phase diagrams
Colleen Small '08 (  Bloomsburg University) - A Systematic Study of the Physical and Structural Properties of Smectogenic 2,7-Fluorenes
Minseok Jang '08 - Excess Gibbs Potentials of Hexanol or Cyclohexanol + Alkane Mixtures Using Rayleigh Light Scattering

Professor David Vosburg (SEE PIC)
Karen Brown '08 - Progress Towards a Biomimetic, Concise Synthesis of (+)-Davanone
Ken Loh '09 - A Biomimetic and Convergent Approach to the Endiandric Acids Cascade
Terence Wong '09 - Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions in the Convergent Biomimetic Synthesis of the Endiandric Acids