REU Participants

Name	School	Professor	Research Focus
Andrew Bernard	UT-Martin	Dr. Redding	Directed Evolution of Photosystem I to Create a Protein Capable of Light-Driven Reductive Dehalogenation of Haloaromatic Pollutants
Sheritta Cooks	Tuskeege U. (AL)	Dr. Shaughnessy	Synthesis of New Water-Soluble Ligands for Pd-Catalyzed Coupling
MIkolaus Cordes	U. of Montevallo (AL)	Dr. Bakker	Using Self-Assembling Lipid Bilayers to Template Structure
Daniel Grant	Albany State U. (GA)	Dr. Woski	Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Kevin Hand	Georgia Southern U.	Dr. Nikles	FePt Magnetic Nanoparticles as Media for Hard Magnetic Disk Drives with Capacities Beyond 1 Terabyte
Meredith Hannah	Lipscomb U. (TN)	Dr. Vincent	Synthesis of Agaents for the Treatment of Diabetes
Timothy Kucharski	Univ. of Alabama	Dr. Blackstock	Exploring Thioketone Association in the Solid State as a new Tool for Crystal Engineering
Lesley Magee	Alcorn State U. (MS)	Dr. Dixon	Computational Catalysis
Amanda Mueller	Lambuth U. (TN)	Dr. Jennings	Asymmetric [2,3]-Wittig Rearrangment via Chiral Boron Enolates
Patrick Purcell	Georgetown Coll. (KY)	Dr. Szulczewski	Absorption/Desorption Dynamics of Hg with Co-adsorbates on Au(111)
Christopher Redden	Jacksonville St. U. (AL)	Dr. Thrasher	New Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Materials for Fuel Cell Applications
John Rohanna	Washington and Jefferson College (PA)	Dr. Snowden	Unveiling the Potential of Chrial Hydrozones as Stereodirecting Dielectrophiles in Tandem Reactions
Kate Vigour	Mills College (CA)	Dr. Rogers	Crystal Engineering in ‘Green’ Ionic Liquids

RET Participants

Name	School	Professor	Research Focus
Felecia Briggins	Greensboro East HS, Greensboro, AL	Dr. Redding	Photosystem I
Shari E. Jones	A.L. Johnson HS,       Greensboro, AL	Dr. Woski	Modification of Nucleic Acids
Janis Mabry	Tuscaloosa County HS	Dr. Nikles	Magnetic Nanoparticles
Tameka Shamery	Hale County HS, AL	Dr. Rogers	Aqueous Biphasic Systems

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