REU Program

Research Projects for 2010

Faculty

Discipline

REU Problem Title

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Jeff Aubé
Professor
Organic, Medicinal New methods for the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles
Mikhail V. Barybin
Associate Professor
Organic, Inorganic, Materials

Azulene-based organometallics relevant to molecular electronics

Daryle Busch
Professor
Inorganic

Evaluation of Homogeneous Transition Metal Catalysts for The Epoxidation of Unsaturated Fatty Acid Ester

Cindy L. Berrie
Associate Professor
Analytical, Bioanalytical,
Physical
Nanoscale investigations of electronic properties of organic thin films
Shih-I Chu
Watkins Distinguished Professor
Physical, Theoretical & Computational Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Heather Desaire
Associate Professor
Analytical, Bioanalytical,
Medicinal
Glycosylation analysis in glycoproteins using enzymatic digestion and mass spectrometry
Chris Elles
Assistant Professor
Physical Reaction dynamics of molecular switches
Richard S. Givens
Professor
Organic, Bioorganic

Rapid, Controlled Release of Neurotransmitters, Nucleotides & Other Bioactive Substrates

Paul R. Hanson
Professor
Organic, Medicinal New methods in phosphorus chemistry
Joseph A. Heppert
Professor and Chair
Inorganic, Organic, Materials, Chemical Education Ruthenium carbide Chemistry
Timothy A. Jackson
Assistant Professor
Inorganic
Investigations of bio-inspired transition metal catalysts
Carey K. Johnson
Professor
Physical, Biophysical,
Bioanalytical
Laser spectroscopy for Studying single biomolecules and fluorescence-based assays
Michael A. Johnson
Assistant Professor
Analytical, Bioanalytical

Measuring Neurotransmitter Release and Uptake in Huntington’s disease and Fragile X Syndrome

Krzysztof Kuczera
Professor
Physical, Biophysical, Theoretical & Computational

Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry
Jennifer Laurence
Assistant Professor
Medicinal

Investigation into the coordination of transition metals to a novel tripeptide motif

Helena C. Malinakova
Associate Professor
Organic, Medicinal Allylpalladium mpolung strategies: Development of new Pd-catalyzed multi-component reactions for organic synthesis
Eric J. Munson
Professor
Analytical, Medicinal, Materials Solid-State NMR Studies of Pharmaceutical
Minae Mure
Assistant Professor
Organic Inhibitors for Quinoproteins
Ward Thompson
Associate Professor
Physical, Biophysical, Computational & Theoretical Molecular dynamics simulations of nanoconfined solvents
Jon Tunge
Associate Professor
Organic, Materials, Medicinal Green synthesis via decarboxylative coupling
David Weis
Assistant Professor
Analytical, Bioanalytical

Characterizing order-disorder transitions in natively disordered proteins

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