With the support of a grant from the Merck Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Hamilton College students and professors attended the 225th American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 23 – 27, in New Orleans, La.
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Julianna Allport '05 presented her poster, "Structure-function relationships of human serum albumin modified by the dicarbonyl sugar-methyl glyoxal," that she co-authored with chemistry professor Ram Subramaniam and Hamilton students, Christopher Butts '04, Sara Edeiken '02 and Leah Budiansky '02 |
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Julianna Allport |
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Andrea Stroud '03 presented her poster, "Ester chiral auxiliaries for the control of stereochemistry in addition reactions of tertiary electrophile radicals," co-authored with chemistry professor Ian Rosenstein. |
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Andrea Stroud |
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Julie Rizzo '03 and Shayna McHugh '05 presented posters based on their work in the laboratory of chemistry professor Robin Kinnel, co-author of the work. Rizzo presented "New aqueous constituents from the sponge Stylotella aurantium from Palau." |
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Julie Rizzo |
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McHugh presented a poster, "Investigation of bioactive compounds in Stylotella aurantium from Guam." |
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Shayna McHugh |
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Ryan Palmitesso '03, Rob Parker '04 and Jeff Rubino '05 presented the results of research they conducted with chemistry professor Timothy Elgren, co-author of their three posters. Parker and Rubino presented "Sol-gel encapsulated peroxidases: Catalytic materials for peroxidation." |
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Rob Parker and Jeff Rubino |
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Palmitesso presented "An integrated context for introducing research methods in chemistry." |
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Ryan Palmitesso |
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Sarah Taylor '03 presented her poster, "Computational Approaches to Anti-Cancer Drug Design," co-authored with chemistry professor George Shields. |
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Elgren presented "Sol-gel encapsulation of amine oxidase," co-authored with Rob Gordon '03, and based on Gordon's senior thesis work.
The chemistry summer research program is an intensive 10-week program, which provides students with interdisciplinary, hands-on, research projects. The chemistry department works with 25-40 students and the sciences in general have more than 80 undergraduates doing research each summer. Many of the students spend multiple summers working on research projects in biochemistry, chemistry or chemical physics with chemistry faculty members. This past academic year, undergraduates working in the research labs of Hamilton College chemistry faculty made 23 poster presentations at five different national or international meetings. All Hamilton science majors complete senior thesis research projects prior to graduation. Interested high school students should check the chemistry Web site for further details (http://www.chem.hamilton.edu).
