Each year Course 5 holds a saturday syposium in the Spring semester in order to celebrate research being conducted by students whose focus is Chemistry.
The symposium consists of a two-hour morning poster session accompanied by the requisite coffee and muffins, a half-hour lunch break, and an afternoon cycle of oral presentations typically featuring seniors who have amassed significant research accomplishments.
Welcome to attend are any interested MIT undergraduates and all graduate students, postdoctorals, and faculty associated with course 5.
May 5, 2001 Symposium Participants:
- Theodor Agapie `Ketyl Chemistry Stemming from Three-Coordinate Titanium(III) Complexes' Cummins Lab
- G. Arjana `Site-Directed Mutagenesis and X-ray Crystallographic Studies of Ribonucleotide Triphosphate Reductase' Stubbe and Drennan Labs
- Herman Lelie `Crystallization of Polyhydroxybutyrate Synthases' Drennan Lab
- Jane Maduram `Methane Monoxygenase: a Modular Enzyme?' Lippard Lab
- Caroline McEnnis `A Modular Synthesis of Heparin-Like Glycoaminoglycans to Study Glycoaminoglycan-Protein Interactions' Seeberger Lab
- Adam Silverman `High Throughput Synthesis and Screening of Pt Drug Candidates' Lippard Lab
- Gitanjali Singh `Functionalized Calix[4]arenes as Synthetic Models of the K+ Channel Selectivity Filter' Lippard Lab
- Michael M. Torrice `Incorporation of Aldolase Function into BBA Mini-Peptide Motifs' Imperiali Lab
Note that the next Symposium is scheduled for Saturday April 6, 2002.
E-mail the course 5 UROP coordinator (ccummins@mit.edu) with the title of your poster or oral presentation at any time to be eligible to participate.
Information on any scheduling conflicts with the Saturday April 6, 2002 date also would be much appreciated.
For the 2002 Symposium, prizes will be given for Best Poster and for Best Presentation.
Research is time-consuming, sometimes frustrating, and frequently frought with false leads and missed opportunities.
In this respect obtaining a research opportunity can be a similar undertaking.
Success in either case is a result of careful preparation, dedication, determination, hard work, and a conviction that the objective can be had and is worthwhile.
Success also is a result of taking enjoyment and satisfaction from the process, which process is always educational.
If you are an MIT undergraduate interested in a course 5 UROP position, then you should identify those faculty members whose research interests are a good match for your experience and/or your own interests.
Having done that you should arrange to meet in person with the faculty member in question, during which meeting you can demonstrate your preparedness for the position in question.
Remember, UROP positions don't exist, you create them!
Use the following link to learn about the research interests of Course 5 faculty: MIT Chemistry Faculty
This page has been created by C. Cummins and is maintained sporadically.
Please e-mail any suggestions, corrections, etc., to ccummins@mit.edu.
