Department of Chemistry
NCUR 2003 - Salt Lake City, UT
Back row: Jason Tubbs, Chris Woods, Amanda Sturdevant, Jason Carr. Front
row: Dr. Logan, Stacy Morrill, Andrea Topolnycky
Six chemistry majors traveled to Salt Lake City, UT, to present research
papers at NCUR 2003, the 17th National Conference on Undergraduate Research,
held at the University of Utah March 13-15. The research of each of these
students had been supported by award of a Summer Research Fellowship for
2002.
- Jason Carr (Mentor, Markus
M. Hoffmann, "CO2 Thermodynamic Phase Behavior Studies and
Preliminary Evidence for the Formation of CO2/Ionic Liquid Microemulsions")
supported by a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Fellowship. ·
- Stacy Morrill (Mentor, Margaret
E. Logan, "Progress Toward an Improved Synthetic Route to
Amino-Substituted Diaryl Tellurides") supported by an Ortho-clinical
Diagnostics (Division of Johnson & Johnson) Fellowship. ·
- Amanda Sturdevant (Mentor, Mark
P. Heitz, "Spectroscopic Study of DCM as Fluorescent Probe
of Solute-Solvent Interactions") supported by the Morris Fellowship
from the Brockport Foundation. Her paper was submitted in full form
to, and has been selected for inclusion in, the "Proceedings of the
17th National Conference on Undergraduate Research." The "Proceedings"
of NCUR typically accepts full papers for inclusion only after peer
review. ·
- Andrea Topolnycky (Mentor, Margaret
E. Logan, "Synthesis and Evaluation of Novel Diaryl Tellurides")
supported by the Collier Fellowship from the Brockport Foundation. ·
- Jason Tubbs (Mentor, Markus
M. Hoffmann, "NMR Relaxation Measurements of Ionic Liquid
Systems") supported by a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Fellowship.
·
- Christopher Woods (Mentor Markus
M. Hoffmann, "Surfactant Studies Using Electron Paramagnetic
Resonance") supported by a Chemistry Alumni Fellowship from the Brockport
Foundation. ·
A total of 126 papers were presented in the Chemistry Section of the
conference. SUNY Brockport chemistry students presented the largest
number of papers of any school in New York with 6 papers. Colgate
University followed close behind with 5 papers, while Clarkson University,
the University of Rochester, and Union College lagged far behind with
one paper, each. No other SUNY school presented papers in the Chemistry
Section!
