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Undergraduate Research Symposium 2008
Each year Eastern Michigan University hosts the Undergraduate Research Symposium. This is a chance for students, here at EMU, to present their research efforts to the university community. The Department of Chemistry has 19 presenters this year, each presenting their work at either poster sessions or oral presentations.
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Undergraduate Symposium - Friday March 28, 2008 - EMU Student Center
Room 301 Student Union, 10:00am Claire Tornow with research advisor Maria Milletti, Ph.D.
"Comparing the thermodynamic stability of diene radicals: A model for peroxidation of Archidonic Acid"
Room 301 Student Union, 10:15am Mark Lukowski with research advisor Maria Milletti, Ph.D.
"Kinetic aspects of the oxygenation reaction mechanism in COX-1"
Room 301 Student Union, 10:30am Jennifer Vogel with research advisor Cory Emal, Ph.D.
"Efforts toward the total synthesis of tannic acid"
Room 301 Student Union, 10:45am Andrew Francisco with research advisor Larry Kolopajlo, Ph.D.
"Computer animations for use in teaching chemistry"
Room 301 Student Union, 11:00am Brooke Raven with research advisor Harriet Lindsay, Ph.D.
"Synthesis of the bicyclic core of indolizidine and pyrrolizidine alkaloids"
Room 330 Student Union, 11:30am James Grinias with research advisor Heather Holmes, Ph.D.
"Temperature and pressure effects on tunable selectivity for gas chromatography"
Room 350 Student Union, 12:00noon Andrew Livingston with research advisor Ruth Ann Armitage, Ph.D.
"THM-GC-MS analysis of rock paintings at la Casa de las Golondrinas, Guatemala"
Poster Session 1 8:30 - 10:15am Room 310 A/B Student Union
Brian Claxton (Lindsay); James Grinias (Nord); Louis Lello (Milletti); Paul North, Nicolas Stoyanovich (Emal); Kyle Poulsen, David McDiarmid (Evans); Patrick Spoutz (Milletti)
Poster Session 2 10:30 - 12:30pm Room 310 A/B Student Union
Melissa Doolin (Armitage); Kevin Johnson (Pernecky); Geneve Maxwell (Armitage); Josh Osborne (Howard); Khizer Sikander (Armitage); Janine Van Gemert (Armitage)