Michigan State University
Department of Chemistry
East Lansing, MI  48824

The Michigan State University Local Section has
participated in and sponsored a very wide variety of
activities with the goals of education in the chemical
sciences, outreach to our community, education in job
opportunities within chemistry, and greater
participation by minorities and women in the
field of chemistry. The cornerstone of these
activities in the past year occurred around National
Chemistry Week. The largest event sponsored was
"Chemistry Day at Impression 5". Impression 5 is a
local science activity center located in downtown
Lansing. In order to bolster community support for the
activity center we held an outreach activity there
centered on demonstrations and hands-on activities for
the public. The demonstrations were performed by many 
volunteers from MSU and local high schools.  
Both Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts attended and were 
rewarded for participation by receipt of a patch 
expounding the "Joy of Toys" theme 
of the event. Over 2000 people 
attended the event which was publicized through the 
scout councils, in area newspapers, and on the web. 
The Women in Chemistry (WiC) program is 
extraordinarily active with numerous engagements 
during the past year. For example, WiC organized a 
Chemistry Merit Badge Day, created a girl scout 
Chemistry interest project patch (IPP), presented 
workshops at the annual Girls' Math 
Science Conference, trained undergraduate presenters 
for the local section's Chemistry day 
activities, had programs dealing with issues dealing 
with career choices, held a welcoming luncheon for 
incoming graduate students, and more.  The local 
section was also heavily involved in the education of 
students below the college level. Some of the 
activities for grade school level students are listed 
above such as Chemistry Day at Impression 5, 
Chemistry Merit Badge Day, creation of a Girl Scout 
Chemistry IPP which is now available nationally, and 
the Girls Math Science Conference. 
In addition, the MSU local section had members
give demonstrations in grade school classrooms and 
held a Chemistry Olympiad competition.  They are also 
in the third year of participation in Project SEED.  
The Younger Chemists Committee of the local section 
has a growing membership and sponsored activities in 
the last year, including a reception for the incoming 
graduate students last fall, activities during 
National Chemistry week, and a Career workshop that 
was funded by a Local Section Innovation Grant. The 
local section also sponsored the Organic Chemistry 
Club, which is co-organized by Babak Borhan and the 
treasurer of our local section (Prof. Rob Maleczka). 
The group meets weekly to discuss problems in organic 
chemistry, watchlectures, etc. In addition to the 
activities above, the local section gave financial 
support to students at the undergraduate and graduate 
level to attend national ACS meetings and presented 
outstanding undergraduate students  with awards.   As 
can be seen from the brief description above, the MSU 
local section has been extremely active in the 
education and involvement of people of all ages in 
the chemical sciences.

The Michigan State University Local Section has
participated in and sponsored a very wide variety of
activities with the goals of education in the chemical
sciences, outreach to our community, education in job
opportunities within chemistry, and greater
participation by minorities and women in the
field of chemistry. The cornerstone of these
activities in the past year occurred around National
Chemistry Week where we sponsored "Chemistry Day at
Impression 5", which had over 2000 people in 
attendance, including ca. 500 scouts.

Department of Chemistry
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

ACS WiC at MSU developed an extremely innovating 
new activity in 2005  a seminar series 
entitled Things Every Scientist Should Know  
Outside the Laboratory.   (The flyer has been 
uploaded with the annual report.)  The Women in 
Chemistry group at MSU has worked since 1997 to 
create a friendly, supportive environment for women 
graduate students at the university.  Throughout the 
years, WiC recognized that there were many situations 
and decisions that are encountered by scientists and 
all young professionals, which come with entering the 
professional world after finishing their education.  
These issues are not necessarily covered in the 
traditional classroom education, yet are important 
for the young professional to face.  WiC designed 
this seminar series to provide a forum for these 
topics to be discussed, and created a casual 
educational setting for these life lessons.  WiC 
received an ACS Local Section Innovative Projects 
Grant to support the seminar series, and gratefully 
acknowledges that the series would have been 
impossible to hold without their financial help.  
Women in Chemistry designed the seminar series and 
invited nineteen speakers to come to MSU to share 
their expertise in topics such as Protecting your 
Intellectual Property, Conflict Resolution, 
and Tips and Tools to Find Funding.  The visit from 
the kick off speaker, Dr. Peter Feibelman, also 
included small group discussion sessions on 
successfully selling a scientific Ph.D. in a 
competitive market.  WiC advertised the event to all 
departments on campus, the local community, and other 
local sections of the ACS.  The seminar series was 
held on Tuesday nights at MSU, and drew crowds of up 
to 100 attendees comprised of undergraduate and 
graduate students from the Department of Chemistry, 
students from other scientific and non-scientific 
departments on campus, faculty, staff, and interested 
community member.  A copy of the promotional flyer is 
attached.
The seminar series was a huge success.  Evaluations 
received after each presentation contained the same 
message  this seminar series filled the gaps that a 
graduate education leaves in areas such as personal 
health, finances, and making your education work for 
you.  The opportunity to discuss topics of concern 
for young professionals allowed new connections to be 
made, and also served to increase the awareness of 
the presence and activities of the ACS WiC at MSU.  
This series was an innovative way to compliment the 
standard education of young scientists, and benefited 
both scientists and non-scientists.

ACS Women in Chemistry at Michigan State University 
has excelled in 2005 by designing an innovative 
seminar series, Things Every Scientist Should Know  
Outside the Laboratory.  This series recognizes that 
there is a gap that graduate education leaves in 
issues such as personal health, finances, and making 
your education work for you after graduation.  
Nineteen speakers visited MSU to share their 
experience and knowledge on such topics.  The event 
drew in crowds of up to 100 attendees, from the 
Department of Chemistry, MSU, and the community at 
large.  Women in Chemistry gratefully acknowledges an 
ACS Local Section Innovative Projects Grant  that 
made this seminar series possible.

Department of Chemistry
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824

The Michigan State University Younger Chemists 
Committee would like to nominate itself and be 
considered for the 2005 "Outstanding Local Section 
Younger Chemists Committee Award." The MSU YCC has 
been involved in numerous events this year to promote 
the sciences as well as give back to the community. 
Among these events was the U.S. National Chemistry 
Olympiad (USNCO) program in which YCC helped proctor 
the written and laboratory components of the 
Chemistry Olympiad qualifying examination held at 
Michigan State University. The MSU YCC also 
participated in the Chemistry Day events at 
Impression 5 Science Museum in Lansing, MI as part of 
National Chemistry Week. This year YCC was 
responsible for three demonstrations including the 
CO2 Leaky Faucet, a hydrogen-powered car, and a 
demonstration to highlight the concept of 
phosphorescence. The MSU YCC also held a donut and 
bagel fundraiser in the lobby of the MSU chemistry 
building to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief 
efforts in which $161.00 were donated to the American 
Red Cross.

 The MSU YCC has been involved in several events 
during 2005, however, we recognize that YCC was 
designed to make ACS relevant to younger chemists, 
increase involvement of younger chemists in ACS at 
all levels, and develop mechanisms to integrate 
younger chemists into the profession. A major way in 
which YCC has tried to fulfill these goals is to 
become involved in the process of administering 
travel grants awarded to students in the MSU 
Chemistry Department. The MSU Local ACS section has 
funds available to provide travel support to chemical 
research/educational conferences which allow chemists 
early in their career to integrate into the 
profession and present original research. The MSU YCC 
recognizes that these opportunities are essential to 
building a successful career in the sciences. In 2005 
an overwhelming number of travel grants were awarded 
with a total of 16 $100.00 and five $250.00 awards. A 
list of students, the conference they attended and 
the amount of the fellowship is provided below. The 
MSU YCC hopes to continue supporting student travel 
awards in order to integrate younger chemists into 
the profession and promote their growth as scientists.

2005 Travel Award Recipients

Sulagna Paul (Fall National Meeting) $100
Ping Liu (Fall National Meeting) $100
Yu Zhang (Fall National Meeting) $100
Srivatsan Kidambi (Fall National Meeting) $100
Yiqian Lian (Fall National Meeting) $100
R. S. Krishnan (Fall National Meeting) $100
Leslie Passeno (Fall National Meeting) $100
Feng Jing (Fall National Meeting) $100
Yana Cen (Fall National Meeting) $100
Ying Zheng (Fall National Meeting) $100
Anish Tuteja (Fall National Meeting) $100
Xuwei Jiang (Fall National Meeting) $100
Xiuni Xu (Fall National Meeting) $100
Zhiyi Bao (Fall National Meeting) $100
Venkata Kallepalli (Fall National Meeting) $100
Zhenjie Lu (Fall National Meeting) $100
Jun Yan (Spring National Meeting) $250
Tao Zheng (Spring National Meeting) $250
Marina Tanasova (Spring National Meeting) $250
Kyoungsoo Lee (National Organic Symposium) $250
Soheila Vaezeslami (American Crystallography 
Association Meeting) $250

The Michigan State University Younger Chemists 
Committee would like to nominate itself and be 
considered for the 2005 "Outstanding Local Section 
Younger Chemists Committee Award" for its involvement 
in the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) 
qualifying examination, particpation in Chemistry Day 
at Impression 5 Science Museum as part of National 
Chemistry Week, efforts in raising money for the 
American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina relief fund, and 
presentation of numerous MSU Local ACS section travel 
awards.

Department of Chemistry
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

The women graduate students at Michigan State 
University founded ACS Women in Chemistry (WiC) in 
1997 after recognizing the need for a support network 
on both personal and professional levels.  WiC 
provides a venue for women who have or are pursing 
advanced degrees in chemistry or other related fields 
to interact, build networks, and support each other 
through their graduate careers and beyond.  WiC is 
primarily composed of graduate students, postdocs, 
specialists, and faculty members in the MSU 
Department of Chemistry, but also involves women in 
other departments and schools on campus, as well as 
undergraduate students and professional women in the 
community.  The eighth year of WiC has been very 
successful and rewarding for the members.  
Membership, participation, and activities continue to 
increase in an effort to constantly change and evolve 
as the interests and needs of the group change.  The 
women of WiC set goals for 2005 including expanding 
and diversifying participation in WiC activities, 
continuing the extensive community outreach program, 
and building and supporting the womens network at 
MSU.
To expand and promote participation in WiC activities 
from the community beyond the Department of 
Chemistry, WiC designed and hosted a seminar 
series, Things Every Scientist Should Know  Outside 
the Laboratory.  This series, funded largely by an 
ACS Local Section Innovative Projects Grant, invited 
over 13 speakers to share their expertise on subjects 
that may not be included in the academic education of 
a scientist, but are important in achieving success, 
such as investments, healthy eating, and grant 
writing.  WiC worked in collaboration with the MSU 
Graduate School, the College of Natural Sciences, and 
the College of Engineering to sponsor the first 
speaker in the series, Dr. Peter Feibelman, whose 
presentation drew a crowd of over 100 from many 
departments on campus as well as interested community 
members.  WiC is very proud of this seminar series as 
it drew in women and men from many concentrations of 
studies, even outside the physical sciences.
Another major focus of 2005 was to continue and 
strengthen the outreach program that WiC deems an 
important way to give to the community and build the 
interest of young people in the sciences.  This year, 
Women in Chemistry served as state event coordinators 
for the chemistry laboratory event in the Michigan 
Science Olympiad.  WiC wrote and proctored a 
laboratory practical exam for high school students 
competing in the event.  WiC also continued their 
annual participation in Chemistry Day at Impression V 
Science Center in Lansing, MI, performing hands-on 
demonstrations for children in the area.  Women in 
Chemistry held the second-annual Scout Chemistry 
Merit Badge Day at MSU.  This event provides the 
opportunity for area boy scouts to earn their 
chemistry merit badge, and area girl scouts to earn a 
chemistry interest project patch (IPP).  WiC designed 
activities and requirements for the IPP for girl 
scouts in 2004, as the Girl Scout Council did not 
formerly have the option of a chemistry patch.  This 
year 66 scouts registered for the event, with an 
increased number of girl scouts from the six that 
participated in the first-annual merit badge event.  
WiC also participated in the annual Girls 
Math/Science Conference which invites sixth-grade 
girls with an expressed interested in math and 
science to participate in a day of experiments.  WiC 
members held two experiments and demonstrations: How 
Hard is Water and Solving Murder with Makeup.  WiC 
holds the idea of cultivating interest in chemistry 
and the sciences in young girls and boys at the 
highest regard, and find such outreach activities to 
be an integral part of our mission.
Women in Chemistry also sees the need to contribute 
to the community at large in building awareness about 
womens issues outside of the laboratory.  In 2005, 
WiC participated in the American Cancer Societys 
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk for the 
third consecutive year, raising $2,242 for breast 
cancer research and awareness.  18 WiC members and 
other concerned members of the MSU community walked 
with the WiC team, contributing to the over 3,100 
total supporters.  WiC raised funds for the walk 
through personal donations, an ice cream social, and 
sale of key chains and pink ribbons, the symbol of 
breast cancer awareness
WiC focuses on constantly building and strengthening 
the network of women in sciences at MSU, and 
recognizes the need for social activities as a way to 
create this supportive environment.  Some activities 
towards this end in 2005 included an end-of-the-
semester potluck dinner at the home of Dr. Kathryn 
Severin for women in the department, the annual 
welcome luncheon for incoming graduate students, and 
a holiday cookie exchange in December 2005.  These 
activities serve to create a supportive, familiar 
environment for women to discuss their concerns, as 
well as provide a way for WiC to increase membership.
MSU WCCs various activities, both within the 
university and beyond, prove that it is an 
Outstanding Overall Local Section Women Chemist 
Committee.  WCCs contributions to the Department of 
Chemistry, the University at large, and the local 
community through outreach to children and adults, 
have established WiC as a well respected and reliable 
organization that constantly strives to better the 
environment for all people, especially women in the 
sciences.  Our group is very proud of our 
accomplishments, and looks forward to future growth 
and opportunities.

ACS Women in Chemistry at Michigan State University 
provides a supportive environment for women graduate 
students, faculty, and postdocs and has continued to 
grow and change in 2005.  To meet the needs of a 
broader audience, WiC started a seminar 
series Things Every Scientist Should Know  Outside 
the Laboratory to open a discussion of topics 
important to young scientists and professionals 
outside a work environment.  WiC also has continued 
to provide extensive outreach activities to the youth 
of the area through activities such as Scout 
Chemistry Merit Badge Day, Science Olympiad, Girls 
Math/Science Conference, and National Chemistry 
Week.  WiC has had an extremely successful 2005 and 
looks forward to helping support graduate students 
and the community in the coming years.

Associate Professor of Chemistry
Lyman Briggs School of Science
E-30 Holmes Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48825

The Michigan State University American Chemical
Society Local Section would like to nominate itself 
and
be considered for the "Outstanding On-going National
Chemistry Week Event" 2005 ChemLuminary Award for 2005
on the basis of hosting our 19th annual "Chemistry 
Day"
hands-on activity/demonstration event held from 10 am
to 3:30 pm on Saturday, October 15, 2005 at Impression
5 Science Center, a childrens' science museum in
Lansing, MI. 

 To celebrate the inaugural National Chemistry Day in
1987, a group of local area high school teachers, 
under
the sponsorship of the MSU ACS Local Section, 
organized
a hands-on activities and chemical demonstration
program on Saturday, Nov. 7, 1987 at the Frandor
Shopping Mall in East Lansing. Teachers and
students from nine area high schools served as
presenters.  This first event's success initiated a
rewarding uninterrupted "Chemistry Day" tradition that
has persisted and grown in notoriety within the
community. Members of the MSU Local Section have
continued to combine their efforts with MSU
undergraduates and service organizations, area
teachers, students, and members of the Lansing 
business
community to present outstanding "Chemistry Day"
programs each year. 

In 1995 the section received a special recognition
award from the ACS for "Best Use of Emerging
Technology" for posting digital pictures of
their event on the World Wide Web.   In 1996, the ACS
recognized our 10th annual event with a National
Chemistry Week Phoenix Award for the "Best Shopping
Mall Show" in the country. 

For the 2000 NCW celebration, girl scouts were invited
to pre-register and attend "Chemistry Day".   After
completion of eight hands-on activities, the scouts
were presented with a specially designed "Chemistry
Day" patch for their badge sash.  Over 300 girl scouts
participated in this first year.  Girl Scout Chemistry
IPPs (Interest Project Patches) were unavailable until
our Local Section began this new angle; Girl Scout
councils in different areas of the U.S. have inquired
with us hoping to begin offering Chemistry IPPs to
their own Scout troops. 

For the 15th annual event in 2001, "Chemistry Day" 
left
the mall and for the first time was hosted at
Impression 5 Science Center in Lansing, MI.

"Celebrating Chemistry & Art" was the theme and 120
presenters manned 25 tables of art related chemistry
activities amidst the museum's hands-on exhibits.  The
merging of "Chemistry Day" and Impression 5 made for
exceptionally fun-filled day of science for the
approximately 1,500 people that attended the event.  
It
was made possible by the collaboration of local
industry, the hands-on museum, the local section,
the MSU Department of Chemistry, local schools, and 
the
local Girl Scout council.  The 2001 event was
recognized with a Phoenix Award for "Greatest
Community Involvement." 

The MSU Local Section once again commemorated National
Chemistry Week with our 19th annual "Chemistry Day"
hands-on activity/demonstration event held from 10 am
to 3:30 pm on Saturday, October 15, 2005 at Impression
5 Science Center, a local science museum. Over 1,200
people visited Impression 5 that day to partake in
celebrating this year's "Joy of Toys" theme. 
Admission to the museum was free, thanks to a generous
donation from MBI International, a Lansing
biotechnology firm. The event was publicized to
the general public through the local newspapers,
entertainment weeklies, and radio.  It was publicized
to the MSU community via a posting on the
university homepage and in the weekly printed news
bulletin. A new promotion this year was the display of
a high-resolution full color "Chemistry Day" 
Powerpoint
slide before science-themed movies at our local IMAX
Theatre. 

Though the event was open to the public, Girl Scout 
and
Boy Scout troops were specifically invited to
pre-register and attend through their local
Scout councils.  As in the previous five "Chemistry
Day" events, any Boy or Girl Scout participant 
received
an embroidered participation patch. Over 500 scouts
received "The Joy of Toys" patches for visiting 10
demonstration stations.  The cost of the Scout patches
was borne by a generous donation from the Two Men and 
a
Truck moving company. Each participant also received a
NCW activity newspaper, a "Hooray for Chemistry" bag,
NCW theme stickers, and an NCW helium balloon.

Thirty tables of hands-on activities, mostly directly
consistent with the "Joy of Toys" theme, were 
presented
by graduate and undergraduate students from the
Michigan State University Department of Chemistry,
graduate students from the MSU Forensic Science
Department, freshman honors chemistry students from 
the
MSU Lyman Briggs School of Science, undergraduates 
from
the MSU Chemical Engineering Department,
representatives from the MSU Chapter of NOBCChE
(National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical
Engineers), the MSU student-led science outreach 
troupe
Science Theater, and several members of the Alpha Chi
Sigma professional chemistry fraternity. Two local 
high
schools also sent teams of student demonstrators. 
Demonstrator volunteers received ACS pencils and a
page-size Periodic Table of the Elephants as tokens of
appreciation.

Hands-on theme related activities included Cartesian
divers, Memory Metal, Slime polymer, Bubbles, "Flarp"
gas-releasing polymer putty, Drinking Birds, Magnetic
Molecular Models, Superconductivity, Invisible Ink,
Fingerprinting, Exploding Gummi Bears, Elephant
Toothpaste, Leaky Faucet, Tornado Tubes (pictured),
Indicator Chemistry, among many others. 
 
The cooperation between MSU and Impression 5 Museum in
staging an annual "Chemistry Day" celebration for NCW
commemoration is expected to continue indefinitely. 

The MSU Local Section "Chemistry Day" website is
located at:
http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/chemday/

The Michigan State University American Chemical
Society Local Section would like to nominate itself 
and
be considered for the "Outstanding On-going National
Chemistry Week Event" 2005 ChemLuminary Award for 2005
on the basis of hosting our 19th annual "Chemistry 
Day"
hands-on activity/demonstration event held from 10 am
to 3:30 pm on Saturday, October 15, 2005 at Impression
5 Science Center, a childrens' science museum in
Lansing, MI. Over 1200 people, including 500 Boy/Girl
Scouts earning participation patches, attended.

Department of Chemistry
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824

Team: Professors Babak Borhan, Robert E. Maleczka, 
James E. Jackson, Milton R. Smith III, James H. 
Geiger, William D. Wulff and Greg Baker, and graduate 
assistant Marina Tanasova

Project SEED was started by the American Chemical 
Society in 1968 to provide a summer research 
experience in chemistry or a related field to 
economically disadvantaged high school students.  
Students are placed in academic, industrial, and 
government laboratories for eight to ten weeks during 
the summer to participate in hands-on research.  From 
past summer, Michigan State Universitys Department 
of Chemistry has joined the many other entities that 
have hosted Project SEED students.  Professor Babak 
Borhan, assisted by graduate student Marina Tanasova, 
supervised the recruiting and mentoring of students.  
Fliers and brochures were sent out to local high 
school science teachers with significant populations 
of economically disadvantaged students since the ACS 
requires the family income of each participating 
student to be no more than 200% of the Federal 
Poverty Guidelines for his/her family size.  Teachers 
with interested students responded and were sent an 
application designed by the MSU team.  Each 
application required a resume, a statement of 
interest, and a letter of recommendation from a 
science teacher.  This encouraged the students to 
highlight their talents as well as taught them 
important business skills for requesting 
recommendation letters and submitting applications.  
	Dr. Borhan enlisted the help of Robert E. 
Maleczka, James E. Jackson, Milton R. Smith III, 
James H. Geiger, William D. Wulff and Greg Baker to 
host Project SEED students.  Each professor was 
responsible for designing a research experiment 
suitable for a short-term project.  The projects from 
the past summer included engineering CRABP II into a 
Rhodopsin protein mimic, investigation of new metal-
catalyzed methods for organic synthesis, 
characterization of a new catalysts for the Heck C-C 
coupling, catalytic synthesis of Boronic esters via C-
H activation, structural studies of transcription 
complexes, aziridine synthesis and oxygen sensing via 
inorganic clusters in sol-gel matrices.
Seven students from East Lansing High School, Perry 
High School, St. Johns High School and Okemos High 
School were chosen to participate in the summer 2005 
program.  Four students were accepted as Summer I 
students and received $2275 each for the eight-week 
session.  Three Summer II students received $2600 
each for the session.  Funding was generously 
provided by the MSU Office of the Provost, the 
College of Natural Science, and the American Chemical 
Society.  All of the students were excited about the 
opportunity to participate in this program which 
began with a meeting to introduce them to each other 
and to their respective professors.  Meetings were 
held each week to allow the students to present their 
research as well as ask questions about various 
scientific issues, including working with graduate 
students and using laboratory equipment.  At each 
meeting, Professor Borhan and Mrs. Tanasova covered 
different topics in organic chemistry to help the 
students better understand their research and how it 
related to larger projects or industrial research.  
Project SEED students were responsible for 
maintaining a lab notebook and following appropriate 
laboratory safety procedures, as well as 
understanding their project and the chemistry it 
involved.  Each student had taken at least one 
chemistry class, but high school students generally 
have very little knowledge of organic chemistry, so 
it became the responsibility of the professors and 
their research assistants to ensure that the students 
had the necessary skills and knowledge to undertake 
their individual research projects.
At the end of the summer, all of the Project SEED 
students were required to present their research in 
the form of a formal paper of their research 
accomplishments from the summer.  This helped develop 
their scientific writing skills and ensured they 
understood the research they had performed.
Project SEED mentors are also encouraged to support 
their students with college and career counseling.  
In addition to discussions of the wide variety of 
jobs available to people with degrees in science, the 
Project SEED students attended a tour of Dow Chemical 
in Midland, Michigan (on most years, based on 
availability).  This tour allowed them to experience 
a large-scale industrial setting compared to their 
small-scale research laboratory, and also showed them 
the many different areas people with a chemistry 
degree may work.  They spoke with a Dow recruiter and 
were able to ask questions about interviewing, 
salaries, and differences in bachelor, masters, and 
Ph.D. degrees.  The Project SEED students also toured 
the MSU Cyclotron Facility, giving them the 
opportunity to witness another field of chemistry and 
see the different types of equipment that can be used 
for experiments.
All student participants from last summer enjoyed 
their Project SEED experience.  Some are now planning 
on attending college, and all Summer I students are 
interested in participating in Project SEED 2006 as 
Summer II students.  All of the students expressed 
interest in pursuing further studies in science. 
Plans are in progress to expand this program in the 
summer of 2006 to include other areas of the 
Chemistry Department and to increase the number of 
student participants.  An attempt is being made to 
target more local high schools and develop a network 
of teachers to promote this program to the students 
they feel would benefit most from this experience.