2011 Summer Undergraduate
Research Symposium
Thursday, July 28, 2011, 11 am - 3 pm Erickson Alumni Center - Ruby Grand Hall
West Virginia University
Congratulations to the winners!
(Left to right: Sripadh B. Sharma, Sarah Robinson, Kathryn L. Smith, Jonathan A. Yancey)
- Biological & Health Sciences (22 posters): Innovative synthesis of two chiral-centered 1,2-diols via hydrolysis by organogold catalysis. Sripadh B. Sharma (WVNano SURE participant), Dawei Wang, and Xiaodong Shi
- Agricultural & Environmental Sciences (22 posters): Panmictic pandemonium: chemotypic diversity of human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigates. Sarah Robinson (Biology REU participant) and Daniel Panaccione
- Physical Sciences & Engineering (23 posters): Design and fabrication of photonic crystals for integration with a waveguide. Kathryn L. Smith (WVNano REU participant), Bradley D. Potteiger, Chloe E. Snyder, Bashar M. Hamza, Anand Kadiyala, and Jeremy M. Dawson
- Nanosciences (22 posters): Development of a versatile high capacity solid-state lithium ion battery. Jonathan A. Yancey (WVNano SURE participant), Katarzyna Sabolsky, and Edward M. Sabolsky
90 symposium participants include undergraduate student researchers from the following programs: WVNano SURE/IRES/REU, Biology REU, Honors SURE and Center for Neuroscience SURI.
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2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium Information
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2010 Summer Undergraduate
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WVU TODAY VIDEO STORY, July 28, 2010
2010 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium Winners:
Biological Sciences
Impact of glycolysis on the design of kinase-targeted chemotherapeutics.Amber C. Cook, Holly N. Williams, Xueli Gao, and Jonathan W. Boyd.
Amber Cook is a West Virginia University Chemistry student who participated in the WVU Honors administered SURE program.
Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
Changes in soil respiration across a nitrogen deposition gradient: Evidence from high elevation red spruce (Picea rubens) forests in central Appalachia. Ben Hedin, Kenneth Smith, and Richard Thomas. Ben Hedin is an Allegheny College Biology student who participated in the Biology REU program.
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Separation of fluorescently-labeled glycans by microchip electrophoresis. Autumn J. Bullard, Christian M. White, and Lisa A. Holland.
Autumn Bullard is a Norfolk State University. Electrical Engineering student who participated in the WVNano REU program.
Nanosciences
Activity and stability studies for bionanoconjugates. A. Campbell, T. Sobray, and C.Z. Dinu. Alan Campbell is a West Virginia University Chemical Engineering student who participated in the WVNano SURE program.
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