The students involved in summer research with chemistry faculty form a strong community throughout the 10-week program. All of our research groups are featured in the image gallery below.
These hard-working chemists celebrated the end of week eight with an ice cream social. There were surprise appearances by polymer scientist Bryan Coughlin '88, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and former Grinnell College faculty member Gene Wubbels, now professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Research Groups
Hanna Key mentored Ruilin, Emma, Karin, and Gabriela with research on the application of enzymes for organic synthesis.
Maisha Kamunde-Devonish mentored Aiden, Michael, Madison and Charles. Their research involved metalloenzyme models.
Corasi Ortiz mentored Hyunji; they analyzed organic pigments using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
Heriberto Hernandez mentored Michael and Sophie; they studied nanoparticles at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Elizabeth Trimmer mentored Yuwei, Siyuan, and Tin to study the flavin enzyme methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase.
Stephen Sieck mentored Stephanie, William, Jacob, and Abigail looking at synthetic application of bioactive organic molecules.
Martin Minelli mentored Samuel; their focus was the synthesis and characterization of molybdenum (V) imido complexes.
Leslie Lyons mentored Thomas, Steven, Tony, and Seiyong looking at ion transportation in electrolytes for lithium devices.
Jim Swartz mentored Ningyi, conducting computational studies of reductive cyclization of unsaturated ketones.
Elaine Marzluff mentored Chengximeng, Evan, Noah, Katherine, and Rong, looking at dynamics of peptides and proteins.
Andrew Graham mentored Chris, Emily, Jacob, and Katherine to study contaminant transport in aquatic environments in Iowa.
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