On-Campus Summer Research Program
This summer, 33 undergraduate students w
orked alongside 10 faculty members for 10 weeks of full-time summer research. Students participate in a wide variety of projects including activation of glucose transport activity of GLUT1, research in fluorescence in sycamore wood, splicing variants from zebrafish, understanding the motives and barriers to two-way faculty/sudent feedback in science, math and engineering, and numerous other projects.
At the completion of their project, each student submits a report and presents a poster at the Science Division Poster session in October during Parent’s Weekend. The projects are funded by a variety of grants and fellowships, as well as Calvin matching funds.
Take a closer look at each of our summer research projects »
2012 Summer Research Projects
Prof. Carolyn Anderson, John LaGrand and David Wierenga: Organic Chemistry: Synthesis of N-Alkyl Pyridone Containing β- and γ-Amino Acids
Prof. Carolyn Anderson and
Emily Rhude: Organic Chemistry: Gold-catalyzed Rearrangement of N-Propargyloxypyridines
Prof. Carolyn Anderson and Nick Vryhof: Synthesis of N-Alkyl Pyridones via Gold(I)-Catalysis
Prof. Eric Arnoys and Elizabeth DeGroot: Characterization of Splice Variants from Zebrafish
Prof. Eric Arnoys and Prof. Larry Louters and Riemer Praamsma: Watching Membrane Proteins in Real Time
Prof. David Benson, Anand Divakaran, Taylor Hegg, Ryan Martinie, Nathanael Myton, and Elizabeth Porter: Proteins as antioxidants using tyrosine and cysteine sidechains
Prof. Roger DeKock and John Strikwerda: Cooperativity in Hydrogen Bonding
Prof. Roger DeKock and Jonathon Vandezande: Catalytic C–H Bond ActivationProf. Herb Fynewever, Prof. Dave Koetje and Jillian Konyndyk: Education Research: Integrative Investigations in Biology 224
Prof. Herb Fynewever and Simon Veldkamp: Understanding the motives and barriers to two-way faculty/student feedback in science, math, and engineeringProf. Larry Louters, Ola Alabi and Ben Kuiper: Activation of the glucose transport activity of GLUT1: does it form a tetramer?
Prof.
Larry Louters and Stephen Gunnink:
Effects of curcumin (from the spice, tumeric) on glucose uptake
Prof. Mark Muyskens, Andrea Bootsma and Brett DeVries: Photochemistry: Research in fluorescence in sycamore wood and photoelimination in acetylacetone
Prof. Kumar Sinniah, Abigail Leistra and Amanda Witte: Characterizing Riboflavin Conjugated Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery in Cancer Therapy
Prof. Kumar Sinniah and Nicole Michmerhuizen: Characterizing the Binding Interaction of Insulin with G-Quadruplex DNA: From Single Molecule to Bulk Measurements
Prof. Chad Tatko, Andrew Roth, Jin Sung and Caleb Uitvlugt: Aromatic interactions as elements of structure, stability and function
Prof. Doug Vander Griend, Emily Golz, Shelby Lofthus, Michael Lubben and Liz Vincent: Nanomolecular Building Projects
Prof. Doug Vander Griend and Matthew Haveman: Development of Web-based platform for analytical chemistry program
