National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF-REU) Program 2004

Schedule of Events

General Information

June 1-4 Arrival and orientation
June 5 Reception & Dinner (Café Capri)

Weekly Faculty Presentations (Room 2122)

June 11 Professors Bergbreiter and Miller

June 18 Professors Cremer and North

June 25 Career Development Day

July 2 Professors DeRose and Raushel

July 9 Professors D. Darensbourg and M. Darensbourg

July 16 Professors Romo and Simanek

Wednesday Lunch Meetings at noon: Biological/Organic (Sulikowski, Room 314); Environmental (North, Room 214); Materials (Gabbai, Room 011) starts June 9. On July 21 we will have a group discussion of the book “Cantor’s Dilema.”

NSF-REU Students Career Day
Friday, June 25, 2004

8:45 am - Coffee

9:00 am - Dr. Stephen Kaldor (President and Chief Scientific Officer, Syrrx, Inc.)
"Structure-Based Drug Discovery in the 21st Century"
Room 255 Chemistry

10:00 am - Professor Marlan Scully (Department of Physics, Texas A&M University)
"Using Quantum Mechanics to Detect Anthrax"
Room 255 Chemistry

11:00 - 11:30 am - Graduate School Application Workshop, Room 2122
Julie Wilson, Academic Advisor II, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University

11:30 - 12:00 nn - Graduate School Experience, Room 2122
Discussion with Graduate students

12:00 - 1:30 pm - Box Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 pm - Dr. Andrew S. Thompson (President, J-Star Research Inc)
Title to be announced
Room 2104

2:30 - 3:30 pm - Career Panel Discussion: Pharmaceutical Industry, Room 2122
Dr. Stephen Kaldor (Syrrx Inc.) and Dr. Andrew Thompson (J-Star Research)

3:30 - 4:00 pm - Dr. Gary Varner (Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University) TENTATIVE
Title to be announced
Room 2104

NSF-REU Student Presentation

August 3-4 - Research Presentations
Room 2122