Marshandra purifying lipid by flash chromatography

Corderrius and London purifying product by vacuum distillation

A tour of Valero Refinery and labs

Ted Burkey, Director of Project SEED at U of M

e-mail: tburkey@memphis.edu
phone: (901) 678-2634
office: Chemistry Bldg., SM 209

Project SEED is an opportunity for economically disadvantaged high school students to do chemistry research for 8 weeks at the University of Memphis during the summer. In 2008 participating students received a $2500 stipend. Project SEED at the University of Memphis was supported in 2008 by the American Chemical Society Project SEED Foundation and four corporations:

• Buckman Laboratories International, Inc.
• Cargill Foundation
• Schering-Plough Health Care Products, Inc.
• Valero Refinery of Memphis

Past research reports by Project SEED students:
 

2008:

Toward Photochemically Labeled Autotaxin by J'Darius Bush, Middle College High School

Thermo-Responsive Hydrogels by Christian Canady, Whitehaven High School

Synthesis of (E)- and (Z)-a-2,5-Dimethyl-3-furylethylidene(isopropylidene)succinic Anhydride by Shanethia Rucker, Ridgeway High School

Study of Aldehyde Reaction by Chanrika Williams, Whitehaven High School

2007:

Building a Binary QSAR Model by Uniqua Echols

Synthesis of Lysophosphatidic Acid by Marshandra Hughes

Synthesis and Purification of 3-[1-(2,5-Dimethyl-3-furanyl)ethylidene] dihydro-4-(1-methylethylidene)-(3E)-2,5-Furandione by London Lamar

Synthesis of a Photochromic Fulgide By Corderrius Muse

Phospholipid Docking by Tran Nguyen

2006:

Building as Binary QSAR Model by Wendy Cox

Evaluating Commercially Buffers for the Decolorization of Anthrocyanins with Chlorine Dioxide by Thirston Johnson

2005:

Photochromic Materials: Purification and Characterization by Christopher L. McNeary

Colorimetric Measurement of Chlorine Dioxide Concentrations in Drinking Water Using Dyes Extracted from Red Cabbage by Thirston J. Johnson