{"id":5375,"date":"2019-02-17T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2019-08-08T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T00:15:07","slug":"2018-undergraduate-poster-symposium-and-career-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2019\/02\/2018-undergraduate-poster-symposium-and-career-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Undergraduate Poster Symposium and Career Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As our alumni well know, the typical Reed chemistry &#8220;undergraduate&#8221; spends a lot of time in the research lab. Senior thesis. Summer research. Need I say more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since his arrival in Portland, Oregon, retired chemistry Prof. David Reingold has been spearheading an annual <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Undergraduate Poster Symposium and Career Fair (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/portlandacsposters\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Undergraduate Poster Symposium and Career Fair<\/a><\/strong> under the mantle of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acsportland.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Portland ACS section (opens in a new tab)\">Portland ACS section<\/a><\/strong>. The symposium\/fair has been held at PSU every year in October, and Reed students have always made a fine showing (see <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Maileen Nakashima '19 Explores Sulfur\/Iodine Flux Synthesis (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2017\/11\/maileen-nakashima-19-explores-sulfuriodine-flux-synthesis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maileen Nakashima &#8217;19 Explores Sulfur\/Iodine Flux Synthesis<\/a><\/strong> for a description of the 2017 fair).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>2018 symposium\/fair<\/strong> featured, if anything, more Reed participation than ever and several Reed students also won prizes. Here&#8217;s a link to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v&amp;pid=sites&amp;srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxwb3J0bGFuZGFjc3Bvc3RlcnN8Z3g6MzIwYzI4YjcyMjhmZjNhNQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"2018 Program Book (opens in a new tab)\">2018 Program Book<\/a><\/strong> which describes the full event. The Reed presenters are listed below, and several won prizes (<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link to photos (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/portlandacsposters\/2018-winners\" target=\"_blank\">link to photos<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"color:red\">**<\/span><\/strong> = 1st prize poster, <strong><span style=\"color:red\">*<\/span><\/strong> = 2nd prize poster):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Biochemistry<\/strong><ol><li><strong><span style=\"color:red\">**<\/span><\/strong> Characterization of NiaR: A regulator of NAD biosynthesis, <strong>Dorothy Cheng &#8217;19<\/strong>, <strong>Maileen Nakashima &#8217;19<\/strong>, <strong>Prof. Arthur Glasfeld<\/strong><\/li><li><strong><span style=\"color:red\">*<\/span><\/strong> Bioinorganic investigations of chalcogen detoxification proteins, <strong>Hayden Adoff &#8217;19<\/strong>, A. Majumdar, <strong>Prof. Kelly Chac\u00f3n<\/strong><\/li><\/ol><\/li><li><strong>Chemical Education<\/strong><ol><li><strong><span style=\"color:red\">**<\/span><\/strong> Interactive web-book design in R chemical pedagogy, <strong>James Vesto &#8217;20<\/strong>, <strong>Dr. Danielle Cass, Prof. Natasja Swartz<\/strong><\/li><\/ol><\/li><li><strong>Inorganic Chemistry<\/strong><ol><li>Evaluation of air-free glassware using the ketyl test, <strong>Lexi Carlson &#8217;20<\/strong>, <strong>Prof. Miriam Bowring<\/strong><\/li><li><strong><span style=\"color:red\">**<\/span><\/strong> Assessing catalytic activity of roadside samples, <strong>Josephine Keller &#8217;20<\/strong>, <strong>Marayam Ahmad &#8217;19<\/strong>, <strong>Oleksandr Lushchyk &#8217;17<\/strong>, <strong>Hunter N. Wise &#8217;18<\/strong>, <strong>Prof. Miriam Bowring<\/strong><\/li><\/ol><\/li><li><strong>Organic Chemistry<\/strong><ol><li><strong><span style=\"color:red\">*<\/span><\/strong> C-H functionalization of saturated cyclic amines, <strong>Charis A. Roberts &#8217;19<\/strong>, Jose B. Roque, Prof. Richmond Sarpong (UC Berkeley)<\/li><li>An adventure in phosphate ligand coordination to bismuth(III), <strong>Zesean M. Ali &#8217;20<\/strong>, <strong>Gabriela M. Bailey &#8217;20<\/strong>, <strong>Nicole P. Kretekos &#8217;20<\/strong>, <strong>Elena A. McKnight &#8217;20<\/strong>, <strong>Claire Milander-Mashlan &#8217;20<\/strong>, <strong>Jake L. Stromberg &#8217;20<\/strong>, <strong>Prof. Rebecca L. LaLonde<\/strong><\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our alumni well know, the typical Reed chemistry &#8220;undergraduate&#8221; spends a lot of time in the research lab. Senior thesis. Summer research. Need I say more? Ever since his arrival in Portland, Oregon, retired chemistry Prof. David Reingold has&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2019\/02\/2018-undergraduate-poster-symposium-and-career-fair\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;2018 Undergraduate Poster Symposium and Career Fair<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-students","category-exciting-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}