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Congratulations to chemistry major Tiffany Brown for her selection as National UNCF-MERCK Undergraduate Science Research scholar. This award provides tuition, room, board, and travel scholarships up to $25,000. Included is a research internship at MERCK's research headquarters in New Jersey. |
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Nichole Squair was recently selected as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholar to support her participation in the 12th Annual Green Chemistry & Green Engineering Conference, which will be held June 24-26, 2008 in Washington, DC. Nichole's interests in Green Chemistry started with her undertaking a project in Dr. Robert LeSuer’s lab dealing with dye sensitized solar cells. She recently presented her study of dye sensitized solar cells at the National ACS meeting in New Orleans (LeSuer, Robert J., Squair, Nichole. “USING SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY TO INVESTIGATE ELECTRON-TRANSFER PROCESSES IN DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS.” Abstracts of Papers, 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008).
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Nicole Squair presents her research at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, April, 2008. |
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 Dr. Kristy Mardis
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Congratulations to Dr. Kristy Mardis and her RISE students. They have been selected to participate for a second year in the Summer Faculty and Student Team (FaST) Research Program at Argonne National Laboratory. During the appointment they will work on a joint research project with Dr. David Tiede of Argonne's Chemistry Division.
Their team research project involves studies of molecular dynamics simulations on nanoscale protein molecular wire architectures and self-assembled, photo catalytic complexes formed with prophyrins and other photsensitizers. The program will exploit the JAZZ cluster in the Laboratory Computing Resource Center for simulation of large protein structure and dynamics, and will quantitatively correlate simulated coordinate ensembles with reciprocal space high-angle x-ray scattering patterns.
RISE scholars Heather Sutton and Tim Vuong participated last summer (2007) and Adrienne Eastland and Quinana Moore join the program this summer (2008).
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Dr. Mardis with Heather Sutton and Tim Vuong.
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Chemistry majors Deborah Amos (left) and Adrienne Eastland (right) were selected as National UNCF-MERCK Undergraduate Science Research scholars. These awards provide tuition, room, board, and travel scholarships up to $25,000. Included are $5,000 research internships at MERCK's research headquarters in New Jersey. Deborah's award is for the summers of 2006 and 2007 and Adrienne's is for 2007-8.
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Danielle Johnson won a full travel fellowship award to present her work carried out in Dr. Aida Abraha’s SCORE Program lab at a conference in Florida. The citation is: Danielle Johnson, Acho Gana, Arthur Thomas, and Aida Abraha, Effect Of Calpain On Tau Polymerization In Vitro and In Alzheimer’s Disease, Minority Trainee Research Forum (MTRF); Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Sept 2005.
Also, in 2006 Danielle was selected as a "Scholar" in the American Chemical Society's Scholars program. This brings with it a major financial award to cover financial needs, such as tuition, books and lab fees for Danielle's senior year at CSU.
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A poster presentation by Nicole Jones at the Minority Trainee Research Forum in Aventura Fl, in September of 2005, based on her work in Dr Juanita Sharpes’ laboratory at CSU. The title of her presentation was, Fluorescent Spectroscopic analysis of the interaction between Bax and small unilamellar vesicles to model the interaction between Bax and the mitochondria during apoptosis. She was awarded the Acres of Diamonds Award in a national abstract competition. Nicole is also to be congratulated on being accepted into the Ph.D. program in Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago starting in the fall of 2006.
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Juan Reyes won an award for his presentation, J. F. Reyes, A. G. Maselli The Formation of GFP-Tagged Hirano Bodies in Dictyostelium discoideum After Inducible Expression of a Truncated Actin Bundling Protein, at the American Society of Cell Biology 45th Annual Meeting, 2005. The presentation was based on his work in Dr. Andrew Maselli's SCORE research lab which is funded by the MBRS-SCORE program. Juan successfully defended his Masters’ degree thesis in the summer of 2006 and was admitted to the Ph.D. program in biology at Northwestern University the following fall.
MAC Poster Organizers Peter Satir (far left) and Anthony DePass (far right) with 2005 MAC poster session winners. Juan Reyes is second from the right. |
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RECENT FACULTY PUBLICATIONS |
Wallace, L.T. and Erhart, M.A. (2008). Recombination within mouse t haplotypes has replaced significant segments of t-specific DNA. Mammalian Genome 19 (4):263-271.
Biggs, P.; Jones, L., II; Lewis, G. (2007) “Incorporation of Microencapsulated Dicyclopentadiene into an Acrylic Bone Cement Matrix.” PMSE Preprints, 2007, 96, 498.
Bowen SP, Mancini JD, Fessatidis V, and Grabiner M. (2008) Why do electromagnetic pulses enhance bone growth? Ann. Biomed. Eng., 36(2):195-203. (Epub 2007 Nov 27.)
Nkuku, Chiemela A. and LeSuer, Robert J. (2007) Electrochemistry in Deep Eutectic Solvents, J. Phys. Chem., 46, 13271-13277.
Bowen, Samuel, Fair, Joshlean, Richter, Robert, Biller, Jason, and participants of PREMAT-2004 (2007) Study of the Levels of Insoluble Mercury in the Soil of the Lake Calumet and South Chicago Area, Trans. Illinois Acad. of Science, 135-156.
Maresso, AW; Wu, R; Kern, JW; Zhang, R; Janik, D; Missiakas, D; Duban, M-E; Joachimiak, A; and Schneewind, O. (2007) Activation of Inhibitors by Sortase Triggers Irreversible Modification Of The Active Site, J Biol Chem, 282, 23129-23139.
Erhart M.A, Kim T, Crews G.M, Pandya A (2006). The Use of Unilateral PCR to Resolve Prominent Heteroduplexes Formed During PCR of the Mouse Microsatellite Locus D17Mit23. Molecular Biotechnology 33, 37-48.
Fazal, Nadeem, Raziuddin, Syed, Khan, Mehdi and Al-Ghoul, Walid M. (2006) Antigen Presenting Cells (Apcs) From Thermally Injured and/or Septic Rats Modulate CD4+ T Cell Responses Of Naive Rat. Biochim Biophys Acta., 1762(1):46-53.
Castro, R., Scott K., Jordan T., Evans B., Craig J., Peters E. L., and Swier K. (2006) The Ultrastructure of the Parasitophrous Vacuole formed by Leishmania major. J. Parasitol., 92(6): 1162-1170.
Mardis, K. L. (2006) Can configuration Entropy Losses Be Predicted from the Binding Affinities of Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes with Varying Numbers of Single Bonds? J. Phys. Chem. 110(2), 971.
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* SCORE or RISE faculty identified in boldface.
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RECENT STUDENT PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL & REGIONAL CONFERENCES |
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19th ANNUAL ILLINOIS STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, March 28-9, 2008
Nine CSU MBRS-RISE students presented their research at this conference. To see a listing of their presentations in Macomb, click here.
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CELEBRATING THE PAST, EMBRACING THE FUTURE - THE 10TH ANNUAL ILLINOIS STOKES ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE , Glenview, Illinois, October 12-13, 2007
Eleven MBRS-RISE students made presentations at the 2007 Illinois LS-AMP Conference. To see a listing of these presentations, click here.
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ANNUAL ILLINOIS STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE
University Park, Illinois, April 6-7, 2007.
The CSU MBRS Program was represented by 14 presentations. For a listing of these presentations, click here. |
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AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 233rd NATIONAL MEETING & EXPOSITION, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007
Six RISE scholars presented their research at the ACS Spring 2007 National Meeting in Chicago.
For a listing of these presentations, click here.
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2006 ANNUAL BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE FOR MINORITY STUDENTS (ABRCMS), Anaheim CA, November 8 - 11.
The Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) is a national conference designed to encourage students to pursue advanced training in the biomedical sciences. ABRCMS is sponsored by The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), Division of Minority Opportunities in Research Program (MORE) and managed by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
Six CSU RISE students presented their research at the 2006 ABRCMS Conference. To see a listing of these presentations, click here.
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ACHIEVING THE VISION - THE 9TH ANNUAL ILLINOIS STOKES ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE , Glenview, Illinois, October 6-7, 2006
Fifteen MBRS-RISE students made presentations at the 2006 Illinois LS-AMP Conference. To see a listing of these presentations, click here. |
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2005 ANNUAL BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE FOR MINORITY STUDENTS (ABRCMS), Atlanta, GA,
November 2-5.
Five MBRS-RISE students made presentations at the 2005 ABRCMS Conference. For a listing of these presentations, click here . |
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