Shields Lectures at Brown University

Winslow Professor of Chemistry George Shields presented a seminar to the chemistry department at Brown University on March 22. The title of his talk was "Working with Undergraduates on Research: Cancer Drug Design and Modeling Atmospheric Chemistry Processes with Computational Methods." His lecture highlighted the work that he and Karl Kirschner, co-director of the Center for Molecular Design, have carried out with Hamilton students over the past few years.

Shields discussed the work of Katrina Lexa '05, Amanda Salisburg '08, Katherine Alser '09, Damien Ellens '03, Lorena Hernandez '03, Sam Bono '00, Jenn Derby '01, Jaime Skiba '02, Karilyn Larkin '06, Amy Barrows '08, Becky Mackenzie '08, Alexa Schwarzman '09, Sarah Taylor '03, Abby Markeson '04, Valery Danilack '06, Sarah Felder '07, Frank Pickard '05, Chantelle Rein '03, Becky Shepherd '06, Amber Gillis
'06, Cecilia Disney '07, James McConnell '07, Emma Pokon '04, Meghan Dunn '06, Tim Evans '05, Mary Beth Day '07, Marco Allodi '08, Kristin Alongi '08, Jovan Livada '08, Ngoda Manongi '08, Greg Hartt '08, Alexa Ashworth '09. Andrew Beyler '10, and Tom Morrell '10. Brown is in the midst of a curricular review and is working on increasing the number of undergraduates working on research projects, and plans to
copy part of the successful Hamilton College model.