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Department of Chemistry
Summer 2007 Research
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
for
SUMMER, 2007
A block of eight to ten weeks beginning May 14, 2007 or as arranged between you and your research director
Application Deadline: Monday, March 26, 2007 at 4:00 pm.
Join with the Chemistry Department faculty at SUNY Brockport for an exciting and stimulating eight weeks of full time (40 hour/week) research at the frontiers of chemistry. Projects are described below.
Several full stipends -- $3200 payable in biweekly installments of $800 -- will be available out of the income from the Chemistry Alumni Research Fellowship Fund (gifts from Brockport Chemistry Alumni), Collier Fellowship (gift from Dr. Susan Collier) and from the Morris Endowment, as well as through funding from external sources. Participants will need to make their own arrangements for room and board during this period.
Persons wanting to participate in summer research should also investigate whether they may be eligible for awards from other funding sources, such as the McNair Program (Inquire, Rm C-18 Cooper) or College Work Study (inquire, Student Employment, Rakov Center). CSTEP participants may qualify for a CSTEP internship stipend. (Inquire of the CSTEP program director, Rm C-18 Cooper.) In some cases funding from more than one source may be combined to allow for additional research fellowships.
Eligibility:
1. You must be a full time student in the current (Spring, 2007) semester
2. You must have passed these courses with grades of C or better and overall GPA for these courses of 2.8
- CHM 205-206 College Chemistry I and II or the equivalent
- CHM 305-306 Organic Chemistry I and II for projects involving chemical synthesis
- CHM 303 Analytical Chemistry I or the equivalent for projects based on analytical techniques
Note: applicants may be currently enrolled in some of these courses
3. You must be returning as full-time students to SUNY-Brockport for the Fall, 2007 semester
Exceptions :
If your GPA in these courses is less than 2.8 (A = 4.0), then you should be sure that strong evidence of your suitability for research participation is present in your application and faculty recommendations. If you might wish to be considered but do not meet all of these criteria, (for example, you have not had all these courses) feel free to discuss your case with the project directing faculty and/or with the Department Chairperson, Dr. Heitz.
Preference will be given to Chemistry majors and to students completing their junior year.
A complete application will consist of:
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a transcript of courses from each college you have attended (transcripts can be unofficial)
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two letters of recommendation (one from a chemistry faculty member at Brockport, and the other from a faculty member in any of the natural sciences). Writers of letters of reference should send (e-mail, campus mail, U.S. mail) their recommendations directly to Dr. Heitz, mheitz@brockport.edu , Room 233, Smith Hall by Monday, March 26, 2007 at 4 pm.
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your personal statement which describes why you wish to participate in summer research and which project you would prefer.
All applications materials, including your faculty recommendations, must be received in Rm 229 Smith Hall by Monday, March 26, 2007 at 4:00 pm.
A committee of the chemistry faculty will evaluate the applications. The committee will announce its decisions as soon as possible (about a couple of weeks after submission deadline). The committee may offer a fellowship, place a candidate on an alternates list, or reject a candidate. The committee may decide to make no award. The successful candidate will be expected to accept or reject the fellowship offer within a week of the announcement of the offer.
Before submitting an application, you are expected to discuss the research projects of your interest and your participation with the faculty mentor. The current Chemistry research projects at SUNY Brockport are described on the next pages. Regardless of the area of chemistry that is of most interest to you, we believe you will find this intensive summer research experience worthwhile in defining your career objectives and appropriate ways to achieve them. Participants should not expect to enroll for a summer course during their eight-week work period. If you want to take a summer course, you and your research mentor may be able to negotiate a project schedule around the summer class schedule.
As a participant, you will perform experiments in a supervised research environment, with the aim of discovering new scientific information. You will very likely also be involved in literature search and the consultation of published journal articles. Typically, there will be research group meetings of all summer research participants to keep informed of what all fellow researchers are doing, what experiments have worked, what further work needs to be done, and how to work around or overcome difficulties encountered.
We strongly encourage Fellowship recipients to present the results of their work at appropriate conferences, such as the National Conference on Undergraduate Research or the Undergraduate Research Symposium of the Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The student and her/his mentor may also attend one of the regional or national ACS meetings. With hard work and a little luck, your research may result in a publication in the technical literature on which you will be a co-author with your research mentor (and other members of the team). You may also be eligible for nomination as an associate member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (an international society devoted to promoting research in all the sciences).
Research Projects offered by Dr. Heitz
Research Projects offered by Dr. Hoffmann
Research Project offered by Dr. Logan
All applications materials must be received in Rm 229 Smith Hall by Monday, March 26, 2007 at 4:00 pm.
