Undergraduate chemistry majors and underclassmen strongly considering a major in chemistry were invited to participate in the Summer Research program of 2010, 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
Timmy Wu '11 (Harvard): PS-PEO Nanostructures:  Diblock Copolymer Blends

Professor G. William Daub
Mary Van Vleet '12: Regio- and Diastereoselectivity in the Claisen Arrangement


Professor Adam Johnson
Brette Chapin '11:  Tantalum Complexes of Tethered Ligands for Hydroamination Catalysis
Kristine Fong '11:  The Synthesis of Amine Diols as Ligands for Tantalum Complexes and Their Use as Catalysts for Asymmetric Hydroamination
Michelle Hansen '11:  NHCs, PCP and  other 3 letter acronyms
Jenny Park '11 (Mt. San Antonio College):  Tantalum Complex for Asymmetric Hydroamination Catalysis

Professor Kerry Karukstis & Professor Gerald Van Hecke
Hayden Hatch '12:  Determining the Binary Phase Diagram of n-Nonyl-B-D-Thioglucoside and Water
Karen Heinselman '12:  Determination of the Binary Phase Diagrams of Green Surfactants in H₂O
Heidi Linder '12:  Determining the Binary Phase Diagram of n-Octyl-B-D-Thioglucoside
Malous Kossarian '12:  Determination of Phase Diagrams of Maltoside and Galactoside in Water


Professor Katherine Maloney
Thomas Aldrich '12:  Discovery of Natural Product Inhibitors of Xylella fastidiosa from  Endophytic Fungi
Millie Fung '11:  Isolation and Characterization of Secondary Metabolites Produced by Endophytic Fungi from R. viburnifolium
Jessie Roy '11:  Defensive Strategies of Sinularia Soft Corals
Vincent Shieh '12:  Chemical Profiling of Sarcophyton glaucum using GC-Ms and LC-MS


Professor Gerald Van Hecke (see picture under Prof Karukstis & Van Hecke)
Thomas Avila '11:  A New Homologous Series of 2, 7-diacylfluorenes
John Robinson '12:  Vapor Detection using Liquid Crystals on Various Substrates

Professor Hal Van Ryswyk
Laura Collins '11: Synthesis of Zinc Porphyrin Dyes for Sensitization of ZnO Nanotubes
Vivian Le '12 (Mt. San Antonio College):  Layering Metalloporphyrins onto Tin Oxide via Axial Ligation in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
Daniel O'Neil '11:  Porphyrin Dyes on ZnO Nanoparticles


Professor David Vosburg
Laura Poindexter '11: Towards a Modular, Biomimetic Synthesis of Bioactive Endiandric Acids
Zara Seibel '11:  Progress Towards a Modular Biomimetic Synthesis of Endiandric Acids A and B
Jeep Veerasak Srisuknimit '12:  Separation and Diversity-Oriented Synthesis of Davanoids
Kanny Wan '11:  Syntheses of Davanoids