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Student research poster session
Browse some photos from the spring 2007 senior research poster session. (5/07)
Department faculty and students made the following presentations at the 233rd ACS National Meeting in Chicago, March 25-29, 2007.
1. CHED 425 - Do student and faculty learning styles differ in the chemistry classroom? Hanna L. Kolzow and Ashley B. Mahoney, Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Chemical Education, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Monday March 26, HRRC, Poster.
2. INOR 326 - Relative energies of alpha and beta isomers of Keggin dodecatungstogallates Karthik Sundaram (Emory University), Wade A. Neiwert, Ira A. Weinstock (City College of the City University of New York), C. L. Hill (Emory University), Inorganic Chemistry in Water 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Sunday, March 25, HRRC, Poster; Sci-Mix 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monday March 26, HRRC, Sci-Mix.
3. ORGN 83 - Diels-Alder reaction involving an unusual dienophile: Computational and mechanistic study Jack R. Waas and Daniel A. Singleton (Texas A&M), Process R&D, Physical Organic Chemistry, Heterocycles, Aromatics, Metal-Mediated Reactions, 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Sunday March 25, HRRC, Poster.
4. CHED 806 - Preparation of new materials through the inclusion of polyoxometalate anions within a copolymer matrix Marcus A Kramer, Megan L Nagel, and Wade A. Neiwert, Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Polymer Chemistry, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Monday March 26, HRRC, Poster.
5. POLY 330 - Intermediacy of radicals in rearrangement and decomposition of metal-alkyl species: Relevance to metal-mediated polymerization of polar vinyl monomers
Megan L Nagel and Ayusman Sen (Penn State), General Papers and Segmented Block Copolymers, 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Tuesday March 27 HRRC, Poster.
6. CHED 1230 - Polyoxometalates as nanoscale building blocks for the design and preparation of new materials Owen M. Boldt and Wade A. Neiwert, Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Inorganic Chemistry, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Monday March 26, HRRC, Poster.
9. PHYS 359 - Accuracy in theoretical excited-state dipole moments Rollin A. King, General Posters, 7:30 PM-10:00 PM, Wednesday March 28, HRRC, Poster.
10. CHED 261 - Does small group work change students' attitudes and confidence?
Ashley B. Mahoney, Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL), 8:30 AM-11:35 AM, Monday March 26, McCormick Place North -- Room N231, Level 2, Oral.
11. CHED 573 - Experimental and computational investigations into an electrophilic aromatic addition reaction Michael R Huehn and Jack R. Waas, Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Organic Chemistry, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Monday March 26, HRRC, Poster.
12. CHED 1408 - Hydrogen bonding to Coumarin-102 in ground and electronically excited states Kerri J. Grove and Rollin A. King, Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Physical Chemistry, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Monday March 26, HRRC, Poster.
13. CHED 1066 - A mutation in vesicle-associated membrane protein 1 causes prewean lethality in the mouse lethal wasting mutant J. K. Schwendinger, A. J. Sachs (Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center), N. B. Haider (Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center), and A. M. Nystuen (Univ. of Nebraska Medical Center), Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Biochemistry, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Monday March 26, HRRC, Poster.
HRRC = Hyatt Regency – Riverside Center
Bethel Chemistry Course Nationally Recognized
Drs. Rollin King and Wade Neiwert were nationally recognized for their efforts in teaching general chemistry at Bethel. (11/1/06)
National Chemistry Week 2006
Browse some photos from the National Chemistry Week festivities at Concordia University, in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Minnesota's ACS section. (10/28/06)
ChemClub Halloween Party
Browse some photos from the recent Chem Club Halloween party. (9/30/2006)
Medtronic gifts $50,000 to Bethel Chemistry
The chemistry department was given $50,000 from the Corporate Science and Technology group of Medtronic, Inc., in support of the purchase of our MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer.
Profs. King, Neiwert, and Waas awarded RSEC summer research grants
Dr. Rollin King was awarded a $16,000 grant from the Research Site for Educators in Chemistry (RSEC) program of the University of Minnesota. Prof. King and junior chemistry major Kerri Grove performed a computational study on the effects of laser excitation on the interactions of dye and water molecules. The project was done in collaboration with Prof. Dave Blank's experimental research group at the University of Minnesota over the summer of 2005.
Dr. Wade Neiwert was awarded a $19,000 RSEC grant for research with junior chemistry major Chris Rognrud on polyoxometalate synthesis. The project was done in collaboration with Prof. Andreas Stein's research group.
During the summer of 2006, Dr. Jack Waas and junior chemistry major Michael Huehn studied the mechanism of an electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction with funding by a $19,000 RSEC grant. The project was done in collaboration with Prof. Christopher Cramer's research group. (11/8/06)
Prof. Rohly awarded grant for 2005-06 student research
Dr. Ken Rohly was awarded a research grant of $14,300 from the Corporate Science and Technology group of Medtronic, Inc., in support of student research for the 2005-06 academic year. This funding continues the pattern of annual grants since 1990.