University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry
NSF-REU Symposium
Thursday August 9, 2001
1:00 - 5:00 PM
Chevron Science Center - Room 132
Everyone is Welcome to Attend
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1:00 - 1:20 Development of a New Procedure for Synthesizing Fluorous p-Methoxybenzyl Alcohols.
Vladimir Simov State University of New York, Stony Brook (Dennis P. Curran

1:20 - 1:40 Synthesis of a Soluble Polymer-Supported Quinolinium Catalyst.
Rebecca Koenig, Louisiana College (Paul E. Floreancig)

1:40 - 2:00 Synthesizing Model Peptides for Making UV Raman Spectroscopic Measurements.
Adrien A. Robinson, West Virginia Wesleyan College (Sanford A. Asher)

2:00 - 2:20 Penning Ionization Electron Spectroscopy with Metastable Neon Atoms. 
Brian S. Jones, Morehouse College (Peter E. Siska)

2:20 - 2:30 BREAK

2:30 - 2:50 Predicting Water Measurements:  Great Potential for Many Applications.
Michael Ewing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Kenneth D. Jordan)

2:50 - 3:10 Measurement of Dopamine Levels in the Rat Brain Using in vivo Microdialysis and HPLC-ED.
Eric W. Crick, Western Kentucky University (Adrian C. Michael)

3:10 - 3:30 Immobilization of Cytochrome C on Mixed Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold Ball Electrodes.
Allison R. Dick, Wheaton College (David H. Waldeck)

3:30 - 3:40 BREAK

3:40 - 4:00 Gas Adsorption in Carbon Nanotubes
Scott Forth, Oberlin College (John T. Yates, Jr.)

4:00 - 4:20 The Design of a Field Transportable Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer to Measure Aerosols From Metal-Working Fluids.
Michael Arberg, University of Pittsburgh (Joseph J. Grabowski)

4:20 - 4:40 Using ESI-MS to Measure the Stoichiometry of a Protein-RNA Splicing Complex.
Wachovia Banks, University of Pittsburgh (Paula J. Grabowski)

4:40-5:00 Concluding Remarks
Craig S. Wilcox, Chair, Department of Chemistry

5:30 Picnic (details to be announced)

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