Integrating Undergraduate Science Research: A Commentary to Undergraduate Research Faculty

Welcome to the Science 2011 Undergraduate Research

Summer Undergraduate Research with Faculty ( SURF

1. Student: Joyce Biaco Major: Chemistry Mentor: Timothy Barker Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry Title: Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Minisci Reactions Many pharmaceutical drugs contain at least one nitrogen atom. If that nitrogen atom is part of a ring with carbon atoms it is called a heterocycle. The ability to easily modify a heterocycle is useful to medicinal chemists because they are then abl...

Integrating Service Learning with Undergraduate Robotics Research

Through a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, the authors have forged an interdisciplinary effort to integrate graduate and undergraduate research, curriculum, and outreach projects that promote service learning in robotics and intelligent systems. The authors have founded the Institute for Research in Intelligent Systems (IRIS) and the Intelligent Systems Lab (ISL) as advisory and resourc...

Undergraduate Undergraduate Research Forum Abstracts @bullet 2011

S • 2011 Student Center Ballrooms April 11, 2011 Southern Illinois University Carbondale The Undergraduate Research Forum is part of REACH (Research-Enriched Academic Challenge), a campus-wide program for undergraduates coordinated by the Offi ce of Research Development and Administration at SIUC. For more information, visit www.reach.siuc.edu. "Engaging in research creates new and exciting lea...

ADSA-SAD Undergraduate Competition: Undergraduate Original Research

A study evaluating the effects of metaphylaxis antibiotics and milk replacer additives on the health and development of Holstein bull calves (n = 52; mean body weight = 42.28 kg + 3 kg; starting age < 3 d) was conducted. The calves were placed into a completely random 3 × 4 factorial design with each group receiving either tilmicosin phosphate (TIL), ceftiofur crystalline free acid (CEF), or sa...