2008 Woodie Awards
Chemistry Club presents LURE research
Jessica Gagnon displays her poster during the American Chemical Society National Meeting
Sandy Sternitzky
Issue date: 4/12/07 Section: News
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Gagnon was selected to display her poster titled "Qualitative Analysis of Aggregation Prevention of Amyloid Peptide Using Sugars" in the session "Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Biochemistry" that showed all of her summer research for the Lakeland Undergraduate Research Experience (LURE) program. There were 1,500 posters on display during the session.
"I really enjoyed the poster session because I got to present my research to graduate students, graduate professors, undergraduate professors - a wide variety of biochemists," Gagnon said.
This is the first national meeting that the Chemistry Club has attended. Nearly 16,000 people attended the ACS National Conference. About 4,500 of the people in attendance were undergraduate students.
"There are over 160,000 ACS members, ten percent of which attend the national meeting," Schwehm said. "There were schools from all 50 states as well as Canada, China and Japan."
The students had the opportunity to talk with many undergraduate students as well as graduate students and professors.
"We got good ideas for future research for this summer," said Gagnon.
The students also attended sessions that involved learning different demonstrations for the community.
"We got many ideas for what communities to present to, what kind of presentations to give, and even how to approach presentations for different [educational] grades," Gagnon said.
The Chemistry Club has given a demonstration to Sheboygan South High School that involved showing a video of chemical "explosions" along with other activities that are aimed at entertaining and educating high school students.
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