School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Georgia Tech

Research Experience for Undergraduates

Summer 2003

 
Ethan Butler of Huntingdon College

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Advisor: Dr. Donald Doyle

Project:  Testing Additivity of Single Mutations in Nuclear Receptors

 

 
Laurie Cadwallader of U. of Arkansas

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Advisor: Dr. Donald Doyle

Project:  Testing the Specificity of a Nuclear Hormone Receptor Mutants

 
Hugh Heldenbrand of North Carolina State U.

Sponsor:  National Science Foundation

Advisor: Dr. David Sherrill

Project:  Investigating the Non-Covalent Interaction of Methan with Substituted Pi-Systems

 
Katherine Kleissas of Bucknell U.

Sponsor:  National Science Foundation

Advisor: Dr. Paul Wine

Project: Absorption Spectroscopy and Kinetics of Weakly-bound Adduct Cl-DMSO

 
Ronald McLendon of Xavier U. of Louisana

Advisor:  Dr. Allen Orville

Sponsor:  National Science Foundation

Project:  Crystallization of a N-terminal Truncated Mutant of Toluene-4-monooxygenase Catalytic Effector Protein

 
Justin Melvin of Georgia Tech

Advisor: Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Project: Multiple Time Scale Dynamics of a Contracting Fluid

 
Brian Moore of Reed College

Advisor: Dr. Will Rees

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Project: Tuning the Effective Energy Gap of Ruthenium (II) bis(polypyridyl) complexes: Polarity and Electronics

 
Jennifer O'Neal of Winthrop College

Advisor: Dr. Julia Kubanek

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Project: Does this Carnivorous Plant have Chemical Defenses?

 
Clint South of U. of Alabama-Birmingham

Advisor: Dr. Marcus Weck

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Project: A Comparative Study of Alq3- and Znq2- Functionalized Polymers for use in OLEDs

 
Kristen Yarmey of Schreyer's Honor College

Advisor:  Dr. Andrew Lyon

Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Project: Drug Delivery Applications of Multilayer Microgel Thin Films