Undergraduate Programs

Dr. Mu-Hyun Baik
Interest Area: Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH C263B, 6-0454

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Summer 2005 and Fall 2005

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students from the Following Class: Sophomore and Junior

Expected Course Work and Experience: Basic chemistry required, Intermediate chemistry classes in inorganic, Physical chemistry or organic would be great, but not required.

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): 5-10 Hours

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: At least 2 semesters

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: My web page http://mypage.iu.edu/~mbaik/home.htm outlines my research interests and has tons of up to date information. 

Lane Allen Baker

Interest Area: Analytical Chemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Instrumentation, Materials Chemistry, Nanotechnology
Contact Info: Room A206, 6-1873

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2007

Preferred Semester for Starting Research: Anytime

Accepts Students From the Following Class: All Classes

Expected Course Work and Experience: Must have Freshman coursework completed

Hours/Week Expected or Available: 5-10 hours

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: At least 2

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects:   Please see website http://www.indiana.edu/~bakergrp/  or email me

Lyudmila Bronstein

Interest Area:Materials Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Polymer Chemistry

Contact Info:Room 234E, 5-3727

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2007

Preferred Semester for Starting: Fall 2006 or Spring 2007

Accepts Students From the Following Class: Sophmore or Junior

Expected Course Work and Experience: General Chemistry. Organic Chemistry would be useful, but not required.

Hours/Week Expected or Available: 10-15 hours

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: At least two

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: Magnetic Nanoparticles and Their Functionalization; Gadolinium Oxide Nanoparticles as Neutron Capture Therapy Agents; Polymeric Nanocomposites with Nanoparticles

Professor Kenneth Caulton
Interest Area: Inorganic and Organic Chemistry
Contact Info: CH C250B, 5-4798

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: No Summer 2005 or Fall 2005

Professor David Clemmer
Interest Area: Analytical
Contact Info: CH A162A, 5-8259

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: No Spring 2003

Professor Romualdo de Souza
Interest Area: Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH C230A, 5-3767

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2004

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime, but prefer the Fall

Accepts Students From the Following Class: All Classes

Expected Course Work and Experience: They Must be in Freshman Chemistry (Prefer Honors) and I Prefer Students to Have Completed a Year of Physics at IU.

Hours/Week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): 8-10 Hours a Week

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: All Past C409 Students Have Done 4 Semesters with the Group.

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: Building and Testing Detectors and Electronics for Nuclear Chemistry Experiments; Analyze Results From Experiments; Perform Theoretical Modeling on Supercomputers High Speed Workstations.

Professor Richard Dimarchi
Interest Area: Biochemistry
Contact Info: CH A508, 6-1840

 Accepting or Not Accepting Students: No Fall 2006 or Spring 2007

Professor Bogdan Dragnea
Interest Area: Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH C202B, 6-0087

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2004

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students From the Following Class: All Classes

Hours/Week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): At least 10 Hours/Week

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: 1-2 semesters

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: Nanolithography of Near-Field Optical Traps; Labview Programming and data Acquisition for Fluctuation Spectroscopy; Synthesis of DNA-Linked Quantum Dot-Gold Nanoparticle Pairs

Professor Amar Flood

Interest Area: Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH C263B, 6-3642

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2006

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Prefers summer start time, but is open-minded

Accepts Students from the Following Class: Freshman and Sophomore unless they have had experince elsewhere.

Expected Course Work and Experience: None required.

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): 5-6 Hours minimum (though negotiable).

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: Greater than 4 semesters

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: My web page http://mypage.iu.edu/~mbaik/home.htm outlines my research interests and has tons of up to date information.

Professor Gary Hieftje
Interest Area: Analytical and Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH A150B, 5-2189

 Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2007

Accepts Students From the Following Class: Junior year or earlier

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Any

Expected Course Work and Experience: No specific requirements, but require at least a 3.0 GPA

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): Negotiable

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: At Least Two Consecutive Semesters

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects:Mass spectrometry, Optical Spectroscopy, Ion Mobility Spectrometry

Professor Srinivasan Iyengar
Interest Area: Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH C202B, 6-1875

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Spring 2003

Professor Stephen Jacobson
Interest Area: Analytical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH A112, 5-6620

 Accepting or Not Accepting Students: No Fall 2006

Professor Caroline Chick Jarrold
Interest Area: Analytical and Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH A271, 6-1190
 

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2004

Preferred Semester for Starting C409:  Sophomores and up

Expected Course Work and Experience: Minimally Introductory Chemistry and Two Semesters of Physics

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): Minimum of 5 Hours/Week

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: Two Semesters

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: Gas Phase Reactions Between Small Metal Oxide Clusters and Small Organic Molecules, Studied by Mass Spectroscopy and Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopy.

Professor Martin Jarrold
Interest Area: Physical, Analytical, and Biochemistry
Contact Info: CH A212, 6-1182

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Spring 2003

Professor Dongwhan Lee
Interest Area: Inorganic Chemistry
Contact Info: CH A250C, 5-9364

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2004

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students from the Following Class: Sophomore and Up

Expected Course Work and Experience: At least one semester of Organic chemistry, preferably organic chemistry lab, too, but not mandatory.

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): As many as possibly! 5 Hours/Week per credit but unlimited access to the lab anyway.

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: 

-Transition Metal Clusters for Electroactive Materials: synthesizing new ligands; exploring their coordination/organometallic chemistry; preparing and studying their linearly conjugated analogues.

- Loosely- Held Polyaromatic Receptor Molecules: Synthesizing organic molecules and polymers as sensory materials; molecular recognition of environmentally important metal ions and anionic substrates.

Liang-shi Li

Interest Area: Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Physical Chemistry

Contact Info: CH A361, 5-7178

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2007

Preferred Semesters for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students from the Following Class: Sophomore or above

Expected Course Work and Experience: No requirement

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): At least 10-12 hours.

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: at least two

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects:

A. Affinity of organic ligands to the surfaces of inorganic nanoparticles.
B. Liquid crystals of organic semiconductors and their phase transitions.
C. Photochemistry of organic dyes adsorbed on surfaces of inorganic nanoparticles.

Professor Daniel Mindiola
Interest Area: Inorganic Chemistry
Contact Info: CH A250A, 5-2399

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes 2006-07

Preferred Semesters for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students from the Following Class: Sophomore and Up, but Freshman of Exceptional Circumstances Can Try to Get In.

Expected Course Work and Experience: Coordination Chemistry, Bench Top Chemistry, Understand Something About Arisensitive Compounds and Reactive Metals.

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): At least 20 hours, and then in the Summer at Least > 40Hours.

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: The more the better

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: Special Ligand Design and Preparation, Incorporation of Ligands onto Reactive Metal Systems, Redox Studeies of Electron Rich Metal Systems and Physical Methods.

Professor Lawrence Montgomery
Interest Area: Organic and Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH A306, 5-4594 

Accepting or Not Accepting Students:  Yes Spring 2003

Professor Milos Novotny
Interest Area: Analytical and Biochemistry
Contact Info: CH C105A, 5-4532

Professor Martha Oakley
Interest Area: Biochemistry and Organic
Contact Info: CH A612, 5-4843

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes, anytime

Preferred Semesters for Starting C409: Usually spring, but summer for 2006

Accepts Students from the Following Class: C342 and L211 recommended. Freshman, Sophmores, and Juniors.

Expected Course Work and Experience: C342 and L211

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): One solid afternoon a week, steady attendance (3-7 hours per week minimum)

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: Need to be willing to work over at least one summer and at least three academic semesters. I do not accept students for a single semester of research.

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: Understanding the structure and function of tumor suppressor proteins, proteins taht are involved in chromosome segregations, and proteins that are involved in growth control and programmed cell death. Our projects use a chemical understanding and chemical methods to investigate biologically important problems, and the results have implications for the development of new anti-cancer or anti-bacterial therapies.

Professor Charles Parmenter
Interest Area: Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: C299A, 5-3522

          Accepting or Not Accepting Students:

          No Spring 2006

Professor Peter Ortoleva
Interest Area: Biochemistry and Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH C203E, 5-2717

Accepting or Not Accepting Students:

Yes Fall 2006

Professor Dennis Peters
Interest Area: Analytical, Organic, and Inorganic Chemistry
Contact Info: CH A162A, 5-9671

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2006- Summer 2007

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students from the Following Class: All Classes

Expected Course Work and Experience: Students Get Training as They Need it, No Prior Knowledge Assumed

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): A Minimum of at Least One Full Afternoon Per Week at the Start is Needed.

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: It is Best that Any Starting C409 Student Commit To a Minimum of Two Years But More is Better.

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: The Best Way to Inform Students of Our Research Areas is to Have them go to Our Homepage: Http://www.indiana.edu/~echem

Professor Krishan Raghavachari
Interest Area: Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH C202E, 6-1766

Accepting or Not Accepting Students:  Yes Spring 2003

Professor James Reilly
Interest Area: Analytical, Biochemistry, and Physical Chemistry
Contact Info: CH A210, 5-1980

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2005

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime

Hours/Week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): 8-10

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: Depends on the student

Professor Philip Stevens
Interest Area: Analytical Science
Contact Info: CH S233, 5-0732

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2004

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students from the Following Class: All Classes

Expected Course Work and Experience: General Chemistry

Hours/Week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): Minimum 5-10 Hours/week at Start

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: At least two semesters

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: Laboratory Measurements of the Chemical Kinetics of Biogenic Compounds Important in Atmospheric Chemistry

Professor Thomas Tolbert
Interest Area: Biochemistry
Contact Info: CH A563, 6-1887

 Accepting or Not Accepting Students: No Fall 2004

Professor Martin Stone
Interest Area: Biochemistry
Contact Info: CH A567, 5-6779

          Accepting or Not Accepting Students: No Fall 2006

Professor Theodore Widlanski
Interest Area: Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry
Contact Info: CH C329B, 5-6863
 

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Spring 2004

Professor Dave Williams
Interest Area: Organic
Contact Info: CH A350B, 5-6629

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2006, Spring 2007, and Summer 2007

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students From the Following Class: Sophmore, Junior

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: 3-4

Expected Course Work and Experience: Organic Chemistry

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): 5-6 hours in lab per week for each credit hour

Professor Jeff Zaleski
Interest Area: Biochemistry and Inorganic Chemistry
Contact Info: CH C263C, 5-2134

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Spring 2003

Professor Faming Zhang
Interest Area: BioChemistry/Physical
Contact Info: CH A667, 6-3650

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes, Fall 2005 or Spring 2006

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students from the Following Class: Sophomore and Junior

Expected Course Work and Experience: Basic chemistry, Intermediate chemistry classes in Physical chemistry or Biology

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): 5-10 Hours/week

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: At least 2 semesters

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects:Protein structure in obesity and cancer cell signaling, see my web page (http://www.indiana.edu/~zhangweb/)  outlines the research interests. 

Professor Randy Arnold
Interest Area: Biochemistry
Contact Info: CH A158, 6-0208

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2007

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students from the Following Classes: Any class

Expected Course Work and Experience: Completed C318, C342/C343, Completed or currently taking Biochemistry (C483 preferred).

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): 8-10 Hours Preferred

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: 2 or more semesters are preferred

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: Automated 2D-LC/MS/MS for Proteomic Analysis of Biological Tissues Reliability of Quantitative Proteomics Without the Use of Isotopic Labeling; Normalization or LC separation dimension in Proteomics Experiments

Professor Lyudmila Bronstein
Interest Area: Physical Chemistry and Materials
Contact Info: CH C234E, 5-3727

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes Summer and Fall 2005

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Summer or Fall

Accepts Students from the Following Classes: Sophomore or Junior

Expected Course Work and Experience: General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry ideal but not required.

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): 15hrs.

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: 3 credit hours

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects: Nanocomposite solid polymer electrolytes for Li batteries mesoporous carbon anodes water-soluable magnetic nanoparticles.

Molecular Structure Center (John Huffman, Maren Pink, John Bollinger)

Interest Area: X-Ray Crystallography
Contact Info: CH A431, email: iumsc@indiana.edu

Accepting or Not Accepting Students: Yes

Preferred Semester for Starting C409: Anytime

Accepts Students from the Following Classes: Sophomore or above

Expected Course Work and Experience: No requirement

Hours/week Expected or Available (C409 Research Requires 4-5 Hours/Week Per Credit Hour): At least 8-10 hours.

Expected Semester Commitment for Research: A meaningful project should last at least two years, but some projects can be designed to be completed in less time.

Possible Undergraduate Research Projects:  A variety of projects ranging from crystal growth to structure determination to analysis of structural data are available.  Check out the laboratory web site (http://www.iumsc.indiana.edu) for a general introduction to research in the IUMSC.