Eastern New York Local Section Undergraduate Research Night

The local section is pleased to announce our Undergraduate Research night on April 15th at Siena College. We'll have approximately 25 posters presented by local students and three oral presentations.

FEATURED AUTHORS:

Jason Marion – Siena College
Layer-by-Layer Self Assembled Thin Film Materials Using Conventional and Microwave Assisted Techniques

Stephen McCarron – Siena College
Assembled Nanoparticle Films with Disubstituted Dibenzocrown Ether Derivatives as Sensors for Metal Ions

Taela Durst – Siena College
Kinetic Studies of the Release of Methylene Blue Dye in Water from PAH/PAA Multilayer Thin Films

Check the Eastern New York Local Section website for details on registering for the meeting.

LOCATION:

Siena College
515 Loudon Rd
Loudonville, NY 12211-1462
West Room, Serra Dining Hall

AGENDA:

5:00 - 5:30 - Guided tours of Siena Chemistry Dept.
5:30 - 6:30 – Registration, networking, and appetizers & Poster Session
6:30 - 7:30 – Dinner
7:30 – 8:00 – Local Section Business
8:00 – 9:00 – Undergrad Research Oral Presentations

Grants Available for Green Chemistry Research

Green chemistry researchers could get a boost from the recently approved American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

“Green chemistry and engineering for drug discovery, development and production” has been identified by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences as one of the specific challenge topics for the $200 million “NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research” initiative, which is part of the recovery and reinvestment act.

Award grants of up to $1 million each are available to help quickly advance the area in significant ways.

March 27-April 27 is the submission timeline for RFAs (requests for applications).

The Challenge Grant RFA is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-003.html .

A complete list of NIGMS Challenge Topics can be found at http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/ChallengeAreas.htm. The green chemistry and engineering topic area is listed as 06-GM-109.

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