Undergraduate Program

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Research Projects for 2010

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Jeff Aubé
Professor		 Organic/Medicinal New methods for the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles
Mikhail V. Barybin
Associate Professor		 Organometallic, 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
Physical
Biological		 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
Biological
Pharmaceutical		 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
Biological

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 and Organometallic Materials, Chem. Education Ruthenium carbide Chemistry
Timothy A. Jackson
Assistant Professor		 Inorganic
 Investigations of bio-inspired transition metal catalysts
Carey K. Johnson
Professor		 Physical/Biophysical
Biological		 Laser spectroscopy for Studying single biomolecules and fluorescence-based assays
Michael A. Johnson
Assistant Professor		 Analytical

Measuring Neurotransmitter Release and Uptake in Huntington’s disease and Fragile X Syndrome
Krzysztof Kuczera
Professor		 Physical/Theoretical
Biological
Computational		 Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry
Jennifer Laurence
Assistant Professor		 Pharmaceutical

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
Pharmaceutical
Materials		 Solid-State NMR Studies of Pharmaceutical
Minae Mure
Assistant Professor		 Organic Inhibitors for Quinoproteins
Ward Thompson
Associate Professor		 Physical
Biological
Computational		 Molecular dynamics simulations of nanoconfined solvents
Jon Tunge
Associate Professor		 Organic
Materials
Medicinal		 Green synthesis via decarboxylative coupling
David Weis
Assistant Professor		 Analytical
Biological

Characterizing order-disorder transitions in natively disordered proteins

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