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Call for Undergraduate Research Highlights
June 2007 issue of the Quarterly
Submissions for the "Undergraduate Research Highlights" feature of the June 2007 issue of the CUR Quarterly are being accepted until Friday, April 13, 2007. Highlights consist of brief descriptions of recent (past six months) peer-reviewed research or scholarly publications in scholarly journals. These publications must be in print and must include one or more undergraduate co-authors. To be considered for publication as an Undergraduate Research Highlight, a submission should include the information listed below and MUST CONFORM TO THE FORMAT OF THE EXAMPLE PROVIDED BELOW. Submissions must be sent to the Editor of the Quarterly by email (Charlotte Otto - cotto@umich.edu).
Submissions not selected for inclusion in the Quarterly will be posted to the Highlights portion of CUR's web site.
EXAMPLE OF PROPER FORMAT REQUIREMENTS - SUBMISSIONS MUST CONFORM TO THIS FORMAT TO BE CONSIDERED.
Wenzel TJ, Thurston JE, Sek DC, Joy J-P. The utility of crown ethers derived from methyl beta-D-galactopyranoside and their lanthanide couples as chiral NMR discriminating agents, Tetrahedron. 2001;12:1125-1130.
Two crown ethers were examined for their ability to produce enantiomeric discrimination in the NMR spectra of protonated primary amines. For several compounds, the discrimination was larger than observed with prior crown ether systems. One of the crown ethers contained a beta-diol functionality that can bind to lanthanide ions. The addition of a paramagnetic lanthanide ion caused pronounced shifts and enhancements in the discrimination in the spectra of several compounds. Thomas Wenzel is a professor of chemistry at Bates College. Jean-Pierre Joly is a professor of chemistry at the Universite Henri Poincare in Nancy, France. Jolene Thurston and David Sek participated in this research the summer after their junior years and then continued it as a senior thesis project. Both are currently employed in industry. The research was supported through a NSF-RUI grant.
ITEMS TO INCLUDE IN YOUR DESCRIPTION (in the format shown above):
-Title of the article and full journal citation (inclusive pages).
-A brief description (3-5 lines) of the research and its significance.
-Title and department or program affiliation of the faculty member.
-A brief description of the student co-author(s). Include the year of study in which the student(s) undertook the work, the opportunity through which the work was undertaken, (independent study project, summer project, REU program, senior thesis project, etc.), and the current status of the student (graduate school, employed, still enrolled, etc).
-The source of funding for the work.
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