Poster Contest Winners Spring 2008


 

1st Place Prize: Alumni Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research; $200 -Emily Ricq; Polt & Oland groups; "Evaluation of Dienyl Ceramide in the Moth M. Sexta"
 
  1st Place Prize: Southern Arizona Regional Section of the American Chemical Society; $200 -Derek Hollman; Miranda group; "Aqueous Nitric Oxide Autoxidation"
 
  2nd Place Prize: $100 - Ahmed Badran; Ghosh Group; "DNA SEER: A Sensitive Approach for the Direct Detection of DNA"
 
  3rd Place Prize: $50 - Oluyomi Ajulo - Ghosh group; "Optimizing a DNA Mediated RNA Detection"
 
  Honorable Mention: $25 each
  • Paul Goodyer- Lichtenberger group "Synthetic Catalysts Based on the Active Site of the Hydrogenase Enzyme: Toward the Production of Molecular Hydrogen"
  • Stephanie Senef - Glass group "Synthetic Effort for the Formation of 2-sustituted endo-6 and exo-6-(methylthio)bicycle[2,2,1]heptanes: Conformationally Restricted Methionine Analogues"

 
  Additional Participants:
  • Alysha Coppola; Cole group "Tropical Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity During Deglaciation Inferred From a New Tahitian Coral Oxygen Isotope and Sr/Ca Record"
  • Ashley Dyett; Hruby group "Heteromultivalent ligands for targeted cancer treatments"
  • Duncan Feldman; Lichtenberger group "Synthesizing efficient hydrogenase active site models: Triphenylphosphine substitution of 1,2-benzenedithiolato diiron hexacarbonyl"
  • Nathan Hanan; Hruby group "Novel Crown Ether-Styryl Dye for Potassium Ion Sensing"
  • Kenyon Hood; Hruby group "Chimeric Peptides for Pain Management"
  • Daniel Huebner & Brian Zacher; Armstrong group "OPV/OLED Inexpensive, Compact and Integrated Dual Beam Photometer"
  • Jacob Kinnun; Brown group "Solid-state 2H NMR Spectroscopy for the Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Laboratory"
  • Vlad Kumirov; Hruby group "NMR Studies of the Conformation of Receptor Selective Melanotropin"
  • David Mangelsdorf & Derek Mangelsdorf; Armstrong group "Napthalocyanine as a Donor Material in Bi-layer Junctions and Blended Heterojunctions in Organic Photovoltaics"