Undergraduate research will again be the order of the day in the Science Center, as Hamilton hosts the seventh annual MERCURY Conference on Undergraduate Computational Chemistry. The conference, which runs from Sunday, August 3 until Tuesday, August 5, will include guest speakers as well as a poster session of students' research projects.
MERCURY (Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate computational chemistRY) consists of faculty and student researchers at 12 predominantly undergraduate institutions across the country. The conference is the first national event devoted solely to undergraduate computational chemistry, and is open to all undergraduates and faculty members, from any institution. Past conferences have included student posters from Brock University, St. Catherine's in southern Ontario; Westminster College, Salt Lake City; the University of Alaska Fairbanks; and Queensborough Community College of CUNY.
The conference will begin with registration, a barbeque and a social gathering at The Little Pub on Sunday. On Monday and Tuesday, the program will consist of lectures by the keynote speakers in the morning, with the student poster session taking place on Monday afternoon. This year's guest speakers will include Lillian Chong from the University of Pittsburgh, T. Daniel Crawford of Virginia Tech, Kristin Koretke of the Glaxo Smith Kline company, William Noid from Penn State, Angela Wilson from the University of North Texas, and Susan Rempe of Sandia National Laboratories.
Normally drawing about 70-90 participants, 40-50 of them students, the conference allows undergraduate researchers to exhibit their findings and discuss their work with other students of computational chemistry, as well as with leaders in the field. Faculty members can promote collaboration by forming a network of computational chemists who work with undergraduates.
-- by Laura Bramley
MERCURY (Molecular Education and Research Consortium in Undergraduate computational chemistRY) consists of faculty and student researchers at 12 predominantly undergraduate institutions across the country. The conference is the first national event devoted solely to undergraduate computational chemistry, and is open to all undergraduates and faculty members, from any institution. Past conferences have included student posters from Brock University, St. Catherine's in southern Ontario; Westminster College, Salt Lake City; the University of Alaska Fairbanks; and Queensborough Community College of CUNY.
The conference will begin with registration, a barbeque and a social gathering at The Little Pub on Sunday. On Monday and Tuesday, the program will consist of lectures by the keynote speakers in the morning, with the student poster session taking place on Monday afternoon. This year's guest speakers will include Lillian Chong from the University of Pittsburgh, T. Daniel Crawford of Virginia Tech, Kristin Koretke of the Glaxo Smith Kline company, William Noid from Penn State, Angela Wilson from the University of North Texas, and Susan Rempe of Sandia National Laboratories.
Normally drawing about 70-90 participants, 40-50 of them students, the conference allows undergraduate researchers to exhibit their findings and discuss their work with other students of computational chemistry, as well as with leaders in the field. Faculty members can promote collaboration by forming a network of computational chemists who work with undergraduates.
-- by Laura Bramley
