Updated: May 5, 2018
Brittney is a native Ohioan, who is currently wrapping up her studies at Univeristy of Ohio. She will be attending graduate school in chemistry at Nortwestern next fall.
She worked with Balu Addepalli on detection of N4-acetylcytidine modification in saccharomyces cerevisiae mRNA. She is an excellent communicator and her presentation at the end of the REU program gave her the John Alexander Poster award. She presented her work also elegantly at the ACS meeting in New Orleans spring of 2017.
Listen to Brittaney at the REU poster section in August 2017, just click on the video below
Updated: Jun 6, 2018
Emanuel is styding chemical engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
Although, Emanuel will graduate as an engineer degree in the near future, he has excellent skills when it comes to inorganic synthesis, which came in handy when he worked with Huiguang Dai in Professor Hairong Guan laboratory this summer.
His research was focues on ammonia-borane as a hydrogen source for the reduction of amines under mind conditions. He successfully showed that ammonia-borane could potentially serve as an alternative reagent for the reduction of amides to their respective amines. Here is a picture of him presenting his resarch at the ACS meeting in New Orleans spring of 2018. We look forward to read more about his research project when it gets published.
Take a look at this video where Emanuel describes his experience working on a project in the REU program at UC.
Updated: Jun 6, 2018
Brandon is currently studying at Xavier University (LA) in New Orleans. His research interest are focused on Green Chemistry so he came to Cincinnati and worked with Professor James Mack on synthesizing polyaromatic hydrocarbons using mechanochemistry. Traditionally long linear PAHs are insoluble or only soluble in hazardous solvents such as benzene or benzene derivatives. Brandon was looking to alleviate that problem by using solvent-free mechanochemistry to development a more sustainable method to synthesize this important group of compounds.
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By using a solventless systems to carry out organic synthesis, Brandon can avoid working with harmful reagents and carrying out tedious operations while synthesing complex organic compounds.
Below is a video of Brandon talking about his experience at Cincinnati.