Undergraduate research

Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Supported by the National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participation Grant during the summer of 1964 and National Science Foundation Grant No. G-19490. 

C18-0120. You are doing undergraduate research for a biology professor. Your first assignment is to prepare a pH =7.50 phosphate buffer solution to be used in the isolation of DNA from a cell culture. The buffer must have a total concentration of 0.500 M. On the shelf you find the following chemicals solid NaOH concentrated HCl (12.0 M) concentrated H3 PO4 (14.7 M) KH2 PO4 and K2 HPO4. Write a quantitative detailed set of instmctions that describe how you would prepare 1.5 L of the buffer solution. 

The structure-activity project at M,I T was originated in collaboration with Dr. Michael C Archer, and has been carried out with Mr. Andrew Edelman, Dr William M Rand, Dr Patricia Kraft, and Ms Vicki Woolworth. We are grateful to the M.I.T Health Sciences Fund, The Marjorie Merriwether Post Foundation, The M.I.T Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and the National Institutes of Health (Grants//R01-CA21951, 2-P01-ES00597, and 1-T32-ES-0702), for support ... 

Undergraduate Research Project Report, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. 

These studies were funded by NSF grant BCS-0409367 and the Duke University Arts Science Research Council (to C.M.D.), and by the Molly Glander Award, Howard Hughes Biology Forum, and Duke Undergraduate Research Support (to E.S.S.). All protocols were approved by the Duke University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (A245-03-07). This is DLC publication 1018. 

During a fourth-year undergraduate research project at the University of Toronto, Dr. R.J. Leroy pursued an answer to the following question If you use photodissociation to separate iodine molecules into atoms, what fraction of the light is absorbed, and how does that fraction depend on the colour (frequency) of the light and on the temperature of the molecules (Photodissociation is a process that involves the use of light to decompose molecules.)... 

Findings 2 Undergraduate research experience. Undergraduate research experiences were cited as enriching experiences that solidihed the interviewees decision to pursue science careers. Many of these opportunities resulted from programs supported various federal agencies and private foundations. 

Implications for Research. Systematic research is needed on the effect of undergraduate research experience for African American students this should include assessing the impact of multiple undergraduate research experiences. 

Implications for Practice. Research on undergraduate research experiences should inform funding institutions that support such experiences. This research could provide information on which to base an undergraduate research experience program as well as feedback to enable existing programs to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of their operation. 

The task of assaulting 72 was bestowed upon Chin Wing Chan whose undergraduate research work was under my direction. The key feature of our route to 72 doubtlessly revolved around the combined use of the Diels-Alder reaction in conjunction with low-valent-titanium deoxygenation. Thus, the known 75 was brominated with NBS to afford the dibromide 76, which was then dehydrobromi-nated in the usual way to give presumably the strained alkyne 77. As expected, all efforts to isolate 77 as a stable molecule were fruitless. However, 77 could be tr ped by furan to form the endoxide 78. Low-valent-titanium deoxygenation converted 78 to the desired molecule 72 (Scheme 16). ... 

T. J. Wenzel, Undergraduate Research as a Capstone Learning Experience. Anal. Chem. 2000, 72, 547A. 

Received January 17, 1972. Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Participant Program. 

Diaz-de Leon M.J., Proc. National Conference on Undergraduate Research, March 15-17,2001, Lexington, Kentucky. 

Katrina L. Jackson obtained her B.S. degree in biochemistry from Boston College in 2002, where she performed undergraduate research with Professor Shana O. Kelley. In 2007, she obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado-Boulder under the direction of Professor Andrew J. Phillips. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University with Professor Yoshito Kishi. Her research interests are focused on the total synthesis of biologically active natural products. 

Lopatto, D. (2004) Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) First findings. Cell Biol. Educ. 3,270-277. 

Russell, S., M. Flancock, and J. McCullough (2007) Benefits of undergraduate research experiences. Science 316,548-549. 

Chen, J., G. B. Call, E. Beyer, C. Bui, A. Cespedes, A. Chan, J. Chan, S. Chan et al. (2005) Discovery-based science education Functional genomic dissection in Drosophila by undergraduate researchers. PLoS Biology 3(2), e59. 

Wenzel, T., ed. (2003) Enhancing Research in the Chemical Sciences at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions Recommendations of a Recent Undergraduate Research Summit. National Science Foundation, http // abacus.bates.edu/acad/depts/chemistry/twenzel/finalsummitreport.pdf (accessed November 30,2009). 

Practice in Education (CASPiE) program in Chapter 10. These modules provide first- and second-year students with access to research experiences as part of the mainstream general and organic chemistry curriculum create a collaborative research group environment for students in the laboratory provide access to advanced instrumentation for all members of the collaborative to be used for undergraduate research experiences and create a research experience that is engaging for women and for ethnic minorities and appropriate for use at various types of institutions, including those with diverse populations. 

Acknowledgement The authors wish to acknowledge the research support of the United States Office of Naval Research during the preparation of this review, and the literature search assistance of Rebecca Miller, who received partial support through the MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. 

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