Undergraduate chemistry majors and underclassmen strongly considering a major in chemistry were invited to participate in the Summer Research program of 2009, funded by the NSF. This summer program ran for 10 weeks under the direction of Professor Adam Johnson.  We have students conducting research, learning about the chemistry profession, and honing their presentation skills. They also will participate in a variety of social activities, such as a chili cook-off, t-shirt dyeing, and a good ole game of Duopoly.  A variety of industrial tours were added last year to learn about the world outside of HMC as students were able to visit the Three Valleys Water Company, the Air Management Control District Laboratories, the Rand Corporation, and Beckman-Coulter.  Several industrial tours are scheduled this year as well.

Professor Shenda Baker

Brian Larsen (Alma College '10):  Synthesis of Free Radical Inhibiting Chitosan

Benjamin Liu '12 & Edmund Mills '11:  Control of self-assembling Nanoscopic Structures in 2D with Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers

Professor G. William Daub

Laura Collins '11:  Transition State Topology of the Ortho Ester Claisen Rearrangement

Professor Karl Haushalter

Athena Anderson '11:  Mechanism of Repair for Nucleosomal DNA

Chikezie Okoro (University of Maryland-Baltimore County '12):  Biochemistry of Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions

Caitlin Olmsted '10:  Crosslinking Histones and DNA to Prevent Transient Site Exposure

Vikram Shivaji '10:  APOBEC3G Expression in Yeast

Professor Adam Johnson

Brette Chapin '11, Michelle Hansen '11, Carolyn Heusser (Gordon College '10), & Katherine Near '10:  Catalytic Asymmetric Hydroamination with Early Metal Amino Alcohol Complexes

Professor Kerry Karukstis & Professor Gerald Van Hecke

Hufsa Ahmed '11:  PHase Characteriation of Alkyl Glucoside and Thioglucoside Surfactants

Heather Audesirk '11:  Innovative Determination of Binary Phase Diagrams of Green Surfactants in Water

Cassandra George '11:  Determination of Binary phase Diagrams of Alkyl Glucosides in Water or Ionic Liquids

Christine Kim '10:  Investigations of Surfactant Aggregation in Lonic Liquids

Professor Gerald Van Hecke 

Thomas Avila '11:  Piezooptic Coefficients of Liquid Mixtures

Mark Cyffka '10:  Systematic Studies of Excess Gibbs Potentials in Binary Liquid Mixtures

Maxwell Kushner-Lenhoff (Yale College '12):  The Application of Equal G Analysis to Binary Liquid Crystal Phase Diagrams

Arthur Vasek '11:  Remeasurement of Rayleigh Ratios of Several Common Solvents

Professor Hal Van Ryswyk 

Chiara Giammanco '10:  Nanstructured Photoanodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Kaitlin Lovering (New College of Florida '11):  Coupling in Metalloporphyrin Dimers

Yael Mayer '11:  Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells:  Porpyrins on Zinc Oxide

Professor David Vosburg

Andrew Chung '10:  Biomimetic Synthesis of the Endiandric Acids

Anna Cunningham '11:  Green Chemistry in Organic Synthesis

Eric Nacsa '10:  Synthesis and Antifungal Activity of Davanone and Related Compounds

Kanny Wan '11:  Biomimetic Syntheses of Terpenoid Compounds