REU in Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science

Six Chemistry and Biochemistry 2023 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) students presented their UO research at the Spring American Chemical Society Meeting held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 17-22, 2024.

Fernanda Siordia

“Investigating Cell Viability With Pt (II) Clickable Compounds”
Vickie DeRose Lab
Mentor: Katelyn Alley
Home institution: Southwestern College

Sawyer Lazar

“Mechanistic Study of Charge Separation in Faceted nanoparticle Photocatalysis”
Shannon Boettcher Lab
Mentor: Aaron Kaufman
Home institution: University of Southern California

Sam Jarvis

“Compression & Supporting Mesh Characteristics as Factors in the Performance of a Bipolar Membrane”
Shannon Boettcher Lab
Mentor: Olivia Traenkle
Home institution: University of Colorado, Boulder

Natalie Lakanen

“Supramolecular Anion Recognition: MOF Integrated ChemFET Sensors and HBeXB Anion Receptors”
Darren Johnson Lab
Mentor: Doug Banning & Shiva Moaven
Home institution: Indiana Wesleyan University

George Piepgras

“Converting Terminal Carboxylic Acids to Internal Alkenes Using Orthogonal Tandem Catalysis”
Amanda Cook-Sneathen Lab
Mentor: Melanie Kascoutas
Home institution: Fort Lewis College

Andrew Jenkins

“Harnessing Energy with Controllable Chaos by Designing and Investigating Thermocell Redox Entropy”
Carl Brozek Lab
Mentor: Jaiwei Huang
Home institution: University of New Hampshire