Students take Action in the Gulf
This past Labor Day weekend, five chemistry students accompanied Professor Larsen on a tour of the coastlines of Mississippi and Louisiana to learn more about the effects of the BP oil spill. They brought back samples of the beach sand and water to study back at St. Mary's and to further their understanding of the many environmental issues facing the gulf.
Chem majors in San Francisco
From left to right: Brian, JP, Dr. Leah Eller, Rob, Nick, Danielle, Mike, Bertrand, Anita, Janice, Dr. Andy Koch, Tabitha (Now Dr. Clem), and Taylor. Emilie and Kristina couldn't make the photo.
Last Spring, 12 St. Mary's students attended the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Fransico. Eight presented their work and we all met after Tabitha Clem's ('05) talk. Tabitha was just finishing up her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley.
Student Research Projects 2005-2006
- Allison Billock, St. Mary's Project 2005-2006: Systematic Isolation of an Antimicrobial
- J. Aaron Crapster, St. Mary's Project 2005-2006: Synthesis and Characterization of Benzyltributylammonium Fluoride and "DiMagno's Resin": Novel Fluorinating Reagents
- Robert Reif, St. Mary's Project 2005-2006: Constructing a Superior Arsenic Detector
- Christopher D. Schweitzer, St. Mary's Project 2005-2006: Pyridinium Substitution of Electron Acceptors: Photoinduced Energy Harvesting
