Events

Student research talks:

• David Garwood '13: "Progress Towards the Synthesis of Trans-Avicennol"
• Drew Blumberg '13: "Synthesis and Characterization of New Mo (VI) Imido Complexes with N-Salicylidene-2-aminothiophenol"

Student research talks:

• Anthony Barber '13: "Developing a Catalyst that Decomposes Greenhouse Gas"
• TJ Schaid '13: "Optimization of Peptic Digestion and Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange for Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Proteins"
• Jingjing Wang '13: "pH-Dependent Studies of Escherichia Coli Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase"

"Electron Flow through Metalloproteins"

• Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology

"The 21st Century Solar Army"

• Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology

"Chemical Manipulation and Site-Specific Labeling of Lantibiotics"

• Noah Bindman '07, University of Illinois

Overview of the MS Internship Program at the University of Oregon

• Julia Miller '11

Summer Research Opportunities

• Grinnell College Chemistry Faculty

Summer Research Opportunities

• Grinnell College Chemistry Faculty
  

Student research talks:

• Nicole Sipfle '13: "Structure of a PCNA Mutant Protein that is Defective in DNA Mismatch Repair"
• Paulina Panek '13: "Synthesis of dichlorodi-p-tolylstannane, a precursor of substituted W-Sn Compounds"
  

"Elucidating the mysterious role of frataxin in Fe-A cluster biosynthesis"

• Dave Barondeau, Texas A&M

"Uncovering the inner-workings of a Multifunctional DNA Repair Complex"

• Scott Nelson, Iowa State University

"Azulene-based Organometallics: New Platforms for Charge Delocalization and Transport at the Nanoscale"

• Misah Barybin, Associate Professor, KU Department of Chemistry

"Career Options for Chemistry and Biological Chemistry Majors"

• CDO: Abby Trout, Assistant Director of Career Development, & Steve Gump, Assistant Director of Graduate and Professional School Advising
  

"Taming Free Radicals and Carbocations for Asymmetric Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds"

• Greg Friestad, Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa

"Nanofluidics for ultra-efficient protein chromatography"

• Mary Wirth, W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor—Analytical Chemistry, Purdue University

• Sofia Tedesco ’14: “Conformational Changes in SuccinicAcid with Varied Temperature and Bridging Cations”
• Severin Thompson '13: "Synthesis of Molybdenum Imido Complexes containing the Ligand N-salicylidene-2-aminophenol"

 Student Research Update:

• Kate Duran ’12: "New Class of Phosphorus Heterocycles: Phosphate Moiety as a Temporary Tether"
• Albert Liu, ’13: "Amide - Carboxylate Interactions in N,N-Dimethylsuccinamate"
• Kirsten Shriver ’12: "Azide Synthesis and Click Chemistry"
• Claire Williams, ’13: "Overexpression of the protein Deamidase of Pup (Dop) in Mycobacterium smegmatis"

• Professor Peter Kroneck, University of Konstanz and Noyce Visiting Professor at Grinnell College

• Professor Bryan Coughlin ‘88, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

“The X-ray Years”

• Dr. Ilia Guzei, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Professor Jan-Uwe Rohde, University of Iowa

Summer Research Opportunities

• Grinnell College Chemistry Faculty
  

Summer Research Opportunities

• Grinnell College Chemistry Faculty
  

Alumni Scholar: 

“Green Chemistry: The Quest for an Environmentally Friendly Route to Acrylics Using Homogeneous Catalysis”

•  Spring Knapp '07

• Tianxiang (Albert) Liu ’13 - Determination of Diheadral Angles of Predominantly trans 1,2-Disubstituted Ethanes using NMR Spectroscopy
• Emily Blythe ’12 - Characterization of cation-pi binding interactions between varenicline and alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
• Kate Duran ’12 - Investigating the Link Between Her3 Phosphorylation and PI3K activation

• Adam Hock, Illinois Institute of Technology

• R. Graham Cooks, Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University

•  Mark Peltz, Associate Dean and Director of Career Development, Grinnell College