NSCRC 2003

             The NORTHEAST STUDENT CHEMISTRY
                          RESEARCH CONFERENCE
                                       April 2003

                          

            


  • Date:             Saturday, April 26th, 2003
  • Location:      Boston University, Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering
                       590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
                       (click here for directions or use these BU Maps to find Bldg. #35)


      Parking    Please use the School of Management (use these BU Maps to find Bldg. #34) garage.
      Give your name to park. No parking permit is required. You must click Yes in the registration form in order to reserve parking space.

                                       

  • Program:

      •  
      8:30-9:00            Poster Set-Up and Breakfast

      9:00-9:15            Welcoming Remarks

      9:15-9:35            Trina Foster  (Boston University) 

                                         Modeling Nature's Pathways: Reproducing the Remarkable

      9:35-9:55             Meaghan O’Keefe  (Boston College) 

                     Engineering DNA-electrode connectivities: manipulation of linker length and structure

      9:55-10:15           Ivan Korendovych  (Tufts University) 

           Iron complexes with pentadentate macrocyclic ligands as potential enzyme mimics

      10:15-10:30         Coffee Break

      10:30-10:50         Justin Tourigny  (Boston University) 

           Investigating SZ2 Energies of Protonation through Density Functional Theory and the QALE model

      10:50-11:10         Andrei Burnin  (Dartmouth College) 

           SCnS linear chain production by direct laser ablation

      11:10-11:30         Christopher Crafts  (Merrimack College) 

           Fabrication and Deployment of  Solid-State Microelectrodes in Natural Systems

      11:30-12:30         First Poster Session

      12:30-1:00           Lunch

      1:00-2:00            Second Poster Session

      2:00-2:30            German-Exchange Program and 2003 Trip Presentation

      2:30-3:30            Keynote Speaker, Dr. Charles Lieber of Harvard University.

                                          Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Science and Technology :
                                          Building a Big Future from Small Things

      3:30-3:50             Awards Presentation

      3:50-4:00             Closing Remarks, Poster Take-Down

       

    • The list of registered participants


  • The conference is sponsored by

                                                 

                           NESACS                         US EPA/Green Chemistry Program      

 

                                                  

                             ACS                                               Alfa Aesar

 

    Co-chairs :        SuzAnn Hertzler                               hertzler@chem.bu.edu

                                 Lauren Wolf                                    lkwolf@chem.bu.edu

    Webmaster:      Lintao Bu                                         bult@bu.edu

    Program production:    Truc Diep                           truc@chem.bu.edu

                                              Dawn Troast                       dtroast@chem.bu.edu  

    Gift/journal committee:        Aida Herrera              aherrera@tufts.edu

                                                       Ivan Korendovych      ivan.korendovych@tufts.edu

                                                       Sonia Taktak             sonia.taktak@tufts.edu

    Set-up and arrangements:    Erin Eastwood           erinlyn@chem.bu.edu

                                                      Christina Fields           cfields@fas.harvard.edu

                                                      Justyna Kucharczak    jkuch14@aol.com

                                                      Jennifer Levine            jlevine1@bu.edu          

                                                      Karen Miller               kmmi@mit.edu

                                                      Amy Tapper               atapper@geltex.com

 


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