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Project SEED Funded for 10 Students in Summer 2010

Thanks to a grant from the Omnova Foundation, in addition to major support from the national ACS Project SEED office, stipends for 10 Project SEED studends has been awarded to the Akron Section. Project SEED provides stipends to disadvantaged high school students to engage in 10 weeks of mentored research in an academic or indistrial research lab. The research mentors donate their time, and the host institutions provide access to their research facilities. This year, 2 projects will be at Kent State University in addition to 8 projects on the University of Akron Campus. Of these, 5 are for first-time SEED students ("Summer I") and 5 are for returning students (Summer II"). See the Akron Section Project SEED web page http://www2.uakron.edu/genchem/SEED/ for more details. The following projects were approved for summer 2010:

The Summer I mentors:
      Scott Bunge, KSU Chemistry
      Wiley Youngs & Brian Wright, UA Chemistry
      Chrys Wesdemiotis, UA Chemistry
      George Newkome, UA Polymer Science & Chemistry
      Oleg Lavrentovich & Robin Selinger, KSU Liquid Crystal Institute

The Summer II mentors + students:
      Jun Hu, UA Chemistry + Duaa Almahd, Firetsone HS, Akron
      David Modarelli, UA Chemistry + Latoya Higginbottom, Garfield HS, Akron
      Darrell Reneker & Connie Hubbard, UA Polymer Science + Dioswal Johnson, Firetsone HS, Akron
      Ed Evans, UA Chemical Engineering + Christian Mayfield, Sandy Valley HS, Magnolia
      Chris Ziegler, UA Chemistry + Katherine Baldwin, North HS, Akron

2009 Akron-ACS Project SEED participants, left to right: Amy Gao, Jasmine Monson, Dioswal Johnson, Christian Mayfield, Duaa Almahd, Latoya Higginbottom, Kat Baldwin, Stephen Campbell, Charles Gordon, Goran Martic.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 22 April 2010 )

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