Recent Travel Awards Granted to Chemistry Students
June 27-July 2, 1999
Travel Grants from PLU
and ACTC
Fernando Vila
Advisor: Ken Jordan
American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry
Boulder, Colorado
Title of Poster: "One-electron Model Potential Study
of Negatively Charged Water Clusters"
June 27-July 2, 1999
Travel Grants from
FAS and
GPSA
Jan Steckel
Advisor: Ken Jordan
American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry
Boulder, Colorado
Title of Poster: "DFT Study of the 3x1 --> 2x1 Rearrangement
of the H/Si(100) Surface"
June 21-23, 1999
Travel Grant from
GPSA
Ulrich Iserloh
Advisor: Dennis P. Curran
ACS 31st Central Regional Meeting
Columbus, Ohio
Title of Talk:
"Enantioselective Conjugate Radical
Addition Reactions Mediated by DBFOX/Ph"
June 21-23, 1999
Travel Grant from
GPSA
Corey Hopkins
Advisor: Peter Wipf
ACS 31st Central Regional Meeting
Columbus, Ohio
Title of Talk:
"Efficient Synthesis of 1,4-Dihydro-2H-Isoquinoline-3,5,8-Triones
via Cyclobutene Ring Expansion"
June 17, 1999
Travel Grant from
GPSA
Janet Asper
Advisor: Craig Wilcox
National Organic Chemistry Symposium
Madison, Wisconsin
Title of Poster:
"Design and Synthesis of an Artifical Phosphotyrosine Receptor"
June 15, 1999
Travel Grant from GPSA
Kathryn Rosi
Advisor: Craig Wilcox
National Organic Chemistry Symposium
Madison, Wisconsin
Title of Poster: "Synthesis of Phosphatase Inhibitors"
May 20-22, 1999
Travel Grant from PLU
Richard Christie
Advisor: Ken Jordan
Midwest Theory Meeting
Notre Dame, Indiana
Title of Poster:
June 13-17, 1999
Travel Grant from FAS
Slava Fishman
Advisor: Joe Grabowski
47th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics
Dallas, Texas
Title of Talk:
"SIFT Studies of Hydroxyl Cation and Ionized Water with Ethylene"
March 8, 1999
Travel Grant from FAS
Steve J. Woltman
Advisor: Steve Weber
Pittcon
Orlando, FL
Title of Talk:
"Detection for HPLC using fluorescence activity induced by electron transfer"
September 6-11, 1998
Travel Grant from PLU
Mark Sparrow
Advisor: Sandy Asher
International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy
Cape Town, South Africa
Title of Poster: "Lysozyme Thermal Denaturation:
A Steady State and Time Resolved UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopic Study"
March, 1998
Travel Grant from PLU
Melinda Alward
Advisor: Steve Weber
ACS National Meeting
Boston, MA
Title of Talk: "Photochemical Control of Metal-Ion Binding"
March, 1998
Travel Grant from FAS
Brian K. Mohney
Advisor: Gilbert Walker
ACS National Meeting
Boston, MA
Title of Poster:
"Ultrafast Infrared and Visible Spectroscopic Investigation
of the Photocleavage of Nitric Oxide from Nitrosothiols"
January 4-9, 1998
Travel Grant from FAS
Fernando Vila
Advisor: Ken Jordan
Gordon Research Conference on Molecular and Ionic Clusters
Harbortown Marina Resort, Ventura, CA
Title of Poster: "Theoretical Characterization of
(H2O)6- and
(H2O)7-"
January 4-9, 1998
Travel Grant from FAS
Marc Pedulla
Advisor: Ken Jordan
Gordon Research Conference on Molecular and Ionic Clusters
Harbortown Marina Resort, Ventura, CA
Title of Poster: "Theoretical Characterization of Small Water Clusters"
June 12-16, 2000
Travel Grant from Federal Work Study Program
Jennifer Bartels
Advisor: David Pratt
OSU 55th International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
Columbus, Ohio
Title of Talk: "High Resolution Study of the Conformers of 3-Aminophenol"
June 11-15, 2000
Travel Grant from FAS
Slava Fishman
Advisor: Joe Grabowski
48th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and
Allied Topics
Long Beach, California
Title of Talk: "Base-Promoted Ester Hydrolysis: Mechanistic Insight via Oxygen-18 Labeled Hydroxide"