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	2011 Summer Hughes Research and Fellows in Chemistry
	2010 Summer Hughes Research Fellows and Associates

THE HUGHES SUMMER PROGRAM

in conjunction with the Ronald E. McNair & Mellon Mays Associates Programs

Summer of 2011
Presentations from Undergraduate Research Fellows and Associates in Chemistry

(Photos by Olivia Bartlett)

"Synthesis and Characterization of a Co(III) Complex with 1,4, 7, 10-Tetraazacyclododecane Tetraacetic Acid: A Diamagnetic Analogue for a Class of Paramagnetic Transition Metal Complexes."

Mentor: Professor T. David Westmoreland
"Hughes Fellow 2011"

Kwaku Obeng Akoi '14

"Possible Common Inhibitors of b-Lactamases and Amide Signature Enzymes."

Mentor: Professor Rex F. Pratt
"Hughes Fellow 2011"

Charles Baron, '12

"Electrochemical Oxidation of a COT Derivative in Allyltrimethylsilane."

Mentor: Professor Albert J. Fry
"Hughes Associate 2011"

Evan Baum, '13

"Construction of a Mn(II)-Selective Electrode."

Mentor: Professor T. David Westmoreland
"Hughes Associate 2010, 2011"

Jennifer Corcoran, '12

"Syntheses of Two o-Aryloxycarbonyl Hydroxamates as Potential b-Lactamase Inhibitors."

Mentor: Professor Rex F. Pratt
"Hughes Associate 2011"

Chuqiao Dong, '13

"Spectral Assignment and Structural Determination of the Argon-36 Cyclopentanone van der Waals Complex."

Mentor: Professor Stewart E. Novick and Professor Wallace C. Pringle
"Hughes Associate 2011"

Chinh Duong, '13

"Purification of Membrane Fusion Protein RtxD by Refolding."

Mentor: Professor Rich Olson
"Hughes Associate 2011"

Lee Gottesdiener, '12

"The Synthesis of a Lignin Mimic."

Mentor: Professor Erika A. Taylor
"Hughes Fellow 2011"

Julie Hsia, '14

"The Binding Properties of Integration Host Factor with the H1 Consensus Sequence."

Mentor: Professor Ishita Mukerji
"Hughes Fellow 2011"

Suzanne Ho, '13

"Energetics and Dynamics of 9-Fluorenemethanol Complexes with Alcohols."

Mentor: Professor Joseph L. Knee
"Hughes Fellow 2011"

Thomas Kuntz, '12

"Exploring an Alternate Synthetic Pathway of Rocaglamide."

Mentor: Professor Michael A. Calter
"Hughes Fellow 2011"

Kelvin Kwofie, '12

"Determination of Sugar-Binding Selectivity and Affinity in Vibrio cholerae Cytolysin (VCC)."

Mentor: Professor Rich Olson
"Hughes Fellow 2011"

Sophia Levan, '12

"The Electrochemical Oxidation of Diphenylacetaldehyde: A Mechanistic Study."

Mentor: Professor Albert J. Fry
"Hughes Associate 2010, Sonnenblick 2011"

Rachel Merzel, '12

"Correlation of Solution Infrared Spectroscopy with Solid State Coordination Number in Five-, Six-, and Eight-Coordinate Transition Metal Complexes of a Tetrakis (amido) tetraazamacrocycle."

Mentor: Professor T. David Westmoreland
"Hughes Associate 2011"

Maika Nagata, '13

"Purification and Production of LigAB Mutants."

Mentor: Professor Erika A. Taylor
"Hughes Associate 2010, COE 2011"

Abraham Ngu, '13

"Molecular Beacon-Equilibrium Cyclization to Determine Binding Affinities of TBPc."

Mentor: Professor Philip H. Bolton and Professor Ishita Mukerji
"Hughes Associate 2011"

Kateryn Nunez, '13

"Design and Synthesis of Covalent Organic Polygons."

Mentor: Professor Brian H. Northrop
"Hughes Associate 2011"

Natalia Powers-Riggs, '13

"Synthesis of a Potential New b-Lactamase Inhibitor."

Mentor: Professor Rex F. Pratt
"Sonnenblick 2010, Hughes Associate 2011"

Heidi Ransohoff, '12

"Determination of the Structural Locations of Binding of Selected Ligands on 24-mer and 15-mer Quadruplex Structures via Fluorescence-Visualized Hydroxyl Radical Footprinting Assays."

Mentor: Professor Philip H. Bolton
"Hughes Fellow 2011"

Andras Sagi, '14

"The Catalytic Asymmetric Interrupted Feist Benary Reaction of a-Substituted Prophiophenones."

Mentor: Professor Michael A. Calter
"Hughes Associate 2011"

Patrick Sarver, '14

"Improving Efficiency in Dendrimer Synthesis."

Mentor: Professor Brian H. Northrop
"SCIC 2010, Hughes Associate 2011"

Robert Stolz, '12

"Experimental/Computational Study of the Electrochemical Oxidation of Cyclooctatetraene in the Presence of Ethyl Vinyl Ether (a Nucleophile)."

Mentor: Professor Albert J. Fry
"Summer Research Associate"

Adion Sutherland, '13

"Solvation of Melittin Using Molecular Modeling."

Mentor: Professor David L. Beveridge and Professor Christina M. Othan
"Hughes Fellow 2011"

Oscar Takabvirwa, '14

"Investigating Steric Effects in Mechanically Interlocked Polymers."

Mentor: Professor Brian H. Northrop
"Hughes Associate 2011"

Ging-Ji "Nathan" Wang, '13

"Molecular Beacon-Equilibrium Cyclization to Determine Binding Affinities of TBPc."

Mentor: Professor Philip H. Bolton and Professor Ishita Mukerji
"Hughes Associate 2011"

Shu Zhang, '13

"Exponential/Computational Study of the Electrochemical Oxidation of Isomoers of Dibenzoyclooctanetraene."

Mentor: Professor Albert J. Fry
"SCIC 2010, SCIC 2011"

Matenga Zuikomborero, '13