James Flack Norris
Theodore William Richards
Overview
The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society established the James Flack Norris and Theodore William Richards Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarships to honor the memories of Professors Norris and Richards by promoting research interactions between undergraduate students and faculty.
Research awards of $3500 will be given for the Summer of 2023. The student stipend is $3000 for a minimum commitment of ten weeks of full-time research work. The remaining $500 of the award can be spent on supplies, travel, and other items relevant to the student project.
Institutions whose student/faculty team receives a Norris/Richards Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship are expected to contribute toward the support of the faculty members and to waive any student fees for summer research. Academic credit may be granted to the students at the discretion of the institutions.
Award winners are required to submit a report (~5-7 double-spaced pages including figures, tables, and bibliography) of their summer projects to the NESACS Education Committee by November 1, 2023 for publication in The Nucleus. They are also required to participate in the Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC) in April 2024.
Eligibility
Applications will be accepted from students who are enrolled in a degree granting program at a college or university within the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS). Students must be chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, or molecular biology majors in good standing, and must anticipate having completed at least two full years of college-level chemistry before summer 2023. Note that NESACS includes the entire state of New Hampshire and the following counties of Massachusetts: Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, and Suffolk.
Criteria for Selection
- Scientific Merit – important factors include the originality of the project, the depth of the investigation, the significance of the scientific questions you pose, and the methods you propose to use.
- Feasibility – evidence must be provided to demonstrate that the project can be completed by you in the time available and with the facilities at your disposal.
- Preparation – your academic record, your ability to handle the project, and the background study you have made on your research problem will be taken into consideration.
- Commitment – the depth of your commitment, and that of your department, faculty, and institution to independent research as a vital component of science education will be assessed.
- With only a limited number of scholarships available, only one scholarship will be awarded per laboratory.
Completed applications must be received electronically no later than 5:00 pm on March 24, 2023, by the Chair of the Selection Committee. Please note that applications via email (PDF format) are strongly preferred.
Notification:
Applicants will be notified of the results by email by April 21, 2023, with written confirmation to follow.
2022
- Anna Clark, Harvard University – Theodore Betley, Advisor
- “Exploration of Cu(O)2 and Co(O)2 Complex Reactivity on a Hindered Ligand Platform”
- Hannah D. Ramos, University of Massachusetts Boston – Mariam N. Ismail, Advisor
- “Synthesis of a Metal-Organic Framework (MOF), Mll-101(Cr), for Enhanced CO2 Uptake”
- Sunny A. Tang, Harvard University – Stuart L. Schreiber, Advisor
- “Discovery of Molecular Glues via Chemical Inducers of Proximity DNA-Encoded Libraries”
- Isabelle Nagle, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University – Emmanouil Rousakis, Advisor
- “Tissue Oxygen Sensing: “Smart” Bandages and Wearable Devices”
- Noah Mason, University of Massachusetts Lowell – Michael Ross, Advisor
- “Size-Dependent Phase Transitions in Plasmonic Post-Transition Metal Nanoparticles”
2021
No awards given this year
2020
No awards given this year
2019
- Meiru An, Boston College – Jia Niu, Advisor
- JiangJi Chen, Boston College – James P. Morken, Advisor
- Francesca Barucci, University of New Hampshire – Christine Caputo, Advisor
- Shannon McCallan, Northeastern University – Carolyn Lee-Parso, Advisor
2018
- Naomi Suminski, Simmons College – Shalise Couvertier, Advisor
- Diego Javier-Jimenez, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth – David Manke, Advisor
- Matthew Crawford, Tufts University – Krishna Kumar, Advisor
- Yingzi Huang, Boston College – Jia Niu, Advisor
2017
- Abraham Bayer, Tufts University – Rebecca Scheck, Advisor
- William Coreas, Stonehill College – Deno Del Sesto, Advisor
- Sewon Oh, Boston College – Jeffrey A. Byers, Advisor
- Rachael Howland, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth – Patrick Cappillino, Advisor
2016
- Harry T. Paul, Tufts University – Charles Mace, Advisor
- Amanda Carey, UMass Boston –Michelle Foster, Advisor
- John Ernandez, Boston University – Mark Grinstaff, Advisor
- Cyrenus Paquin, UMass Dartmouth – Donald Boerth, Advisor
2015
- Ryan Hall, UNH – Sam Pazicni, Advisor
- Jona Koka, UMass Dartmouth – David Manke, Advisor
- Leonard Sprague, Bridgewater State University – Edward Brush, Advisor
- Jordin Metz, Tufts University – Mary Jane Shultz, Advisor
2014
- Cameron McInnes, UNH – Gonghu Li, Advisor
- Tyler Harrison, UMass Lowell – Daniel Sandman, Advisor
- Yue Ren, Harvard College – Vinothan Manoharan, Advisor
- Lauren Yablon, Boston College – Jeffery Byers, Advisor
2013
- Sean Dwyer, Stonehill College – Deno Del Sesto, Advisor
- “Adsorption, Ordering and Interaction of Thioethers on a Au(111) Surface Studied with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy”
- Claire Harmange, Harvard University – Andrew G. Myers, Advisor
- “Synthesis of Novel Tetracycline Analogs Against Bacterial Resistance”
- Kyle Murphy, Bridgewater State University – Edward Brush, Advisor
- “Green Chemistry Principles in Electrophilic Bromination. Evaluating amides and amidines as Lewis Base catalysts for the regioselective bromination of indole-3-acetic acid”
- Amanda Stubbs, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth – David Manke, Advisor
- “Carbon Dioxide Capture with 4-Aminopyridine Derivatized MOFs”
2012
- Casey Brodsky, Boston College – Chia-Kuang Tsing, Advisor
- “Nobel Metal Nanostructures for Electrochemical Energy Storage”
- Morris Eli Cohen, Boston University – Binyomin Abrams, Advisor
- “Simulation Studies of Helix Formation of Oligo(azobenzene) Foldamers”
- Patrick Kelleher, Stonehill College – Deno Del Sesto, Advisor
- “Determination of the Reactivity of the Vibrational Ground State of Methane on Ni(111)”
- Benjamin Reiner, Boston College – Jeffery Byers, Advisor
- “Ruthenium Catalyzed Brook Rearangements for the Rapid Assembly of Complex Small Molecules”
2011
- Shoshana Bachman, Wellesley College – Professor David Haines, Advisor
- “Synthesis of a Potential Inhibitor of Chlamydial Immunoresistance”
- Ka (Dennis) Chang, Boston College – Kian L. Tan, PhD, Advisor
- “Asymmetric Hydroformylation of Homoallylic Alcohols via Enantioenriched Scaffolding Ligands”
- Allister McGuire , Tufts University – Charles Sykes, PhD, Advisor
- “Molecular Rotors”
- Matthew P. Mower, University of New Hampshire – Charles K. Zercher, PhD, Advisor
- “Novel Peptidomimetics for the Inhibition of Aspartyl Proteases”
2010
- Brian Blum, College of the Holy Cross – Amber M. Hupp, Advisor
- “Characterization of Zwitterionic C18 Stationary Phases Used in Liquid Chromatography”
- Melissa Brulotte, Bridgewater State College – Samer Lone, Advisor
- “The Crystal Structure of Spo4 with N-Acetyl-2-Aminofluorene”
- Jiazuo Feng, Boston University – Mark Grinstaff, Advisor
- “Photo-expansile Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization and In-vitro Efficacy of a Photo-Sensitive Polymeric siRNA Delivery System”
- Kathleen E. Fleming, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – JoAnne Stubbe, Advisor
- “Mechanistic Studies of Inactivation of Class la Ribonucleotide Reductases by Clolar”
2009
- Dartmouth John Sirois, University of Massachusetts – Dr. Donald Boerth, Advisor
- “Nucleophilic Displacement Reactions in Hindered Allylic Systems”
- Elizabeth A. Neuhardt, Keene State College – Dr. Colin D. Abernethy, Advisor
- “The Synthesis and Characterization of New N-Heterocyclic Germylene Complexes of the Early Transition Metals”
- Rita Ciambra, University of New Hampshire – Prof. Ekaterina Pietneva, Advisor
- “Redox reactivity, ligand substitution, and conformational changes in a Geobacter heme protein GSU0935”
- Danielle Raad, Brown University / Harvard University – Prof. Theodore Betley, Advisor
2008
- Alexander Gitlin, Harvard College – Prof. Stuart L. Schreiber, Advisor
- “Molecular Regulation and Modulation of Beta Cell Identity and Function”
- Devon Heath, Stonehill College – Dr. Leon Tilley, Advisor
- “Synthesis of 1,1,1-trifluoro-4-trimethylsilyl-2-butanone-3,3-d2: Betadeuterium Isotope Effects of Electron Deficient Gamma-Silyl Cations”
- Derek Kong, Tufts University – Dr. John Kyriakis, Advisor
- “Understanding P8 and PELP: Stress Induced Transcriptional Coregulators of Matrix Metalloprotease-9 in Heart Disease”
- Samuel Beal, Wheaton College – Prof. Matthew Evans, Advisor
- “Chemical weathering in the hydrological system of the Greenland Ice Shelf”
2007
- Ryan Patrick Heney, Boston College – Dr. Evan R. Kantrowitz, Advisor
- “Proposed Synthesis of New Inhibitors of Fructose 1.6-biphosphatase”
- Jiajia Cui, Dartmouth College – Dr. Dean Wilcox, Advisor
- “Nickel Binding Properties of the Histidine-Rich Carboxyl Tail Region UreE Protein”
- Stephen Fried, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Prof. Daniel Nocera, Advisor
- “Cofacial Catalysis for Oxygen-Oxygen Bond Formation”
- Margaret Winkler Thompson, Wellesley College – Dr. David Haines, Advisor
- “Synthesis of azide-labeled reverse agonists of the glucagons-like peptide 1 Receptor and characterization of receptor-reverse agonist binding”
2006
- Kerry Heinzelmann, Boston College – Prof. Evan Kantrowitz, Advisor
- “The Synthesis of New Inhibitors of Dihydrooratase”
- Jessica Lynch, MIT – Prof. Alice Ting, Advisor
- “Engineering a Monovalent Avidin with Femtomolar Affinity”
- Chayasith Uttamapinat, Harvard University – Prof. Gregory Verdine, Advisor
- “The Synthesis of 4’-Fluorinated Oligonucleotides”
- Todd Andrade, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth – Donald Boerth, Advisor
- “DNA Adduct Formation in Plants by Interaction with Phenoxy and Carbamate Pesticides”
2005
- Tania Cabrera, Simmons College – Prof. Richard Gurney, Advisor
- “Templating Calcium Oxalate Growth for in-situ Atomic Force Microscopy Studies”
- Jacqueline Tio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof. Stephen Lippard, Advisor
- “Novel Fluorescence-based Nitric Oxide Sensors”
- William Hillman, Boston College – Prof. Steven D. Bruner, Advisor
- “Structural Determination of LnmQ, A Novel Adenylation Domain, Using Synthetic Inhibitors”
- Alison Erbeck, Bridgewater State College – Prof. Edward Brush, Advisor
- “Synthesis and Evaluation of S-glutathionyl-3-bromo-oxindole Acetate as a Potential Trojan Horse Inhibitor of Glyoxalase II”
2004
- Christopher D. Gilmore, Boston College – Prof. Scott J. Miller, Advisor
- “The Synthesis of 4(R)-Hydroxy-L-Proline-Glycine Alkene Isostere”
- Yehuda Edo Paz, Harvard University – Prof. Gregory Verdine, Advisor
- “Determination of the Structural Basis for HIV-1 integrase Substrate Recognition”
- Cara B. Patten, Stonehill College – Prof. Craig A. Almeida, Advisor
- “The Effect of mut-2 on Recombination Frequency in Caenorhabditits elegans”
- Sarah J. Fischer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell – Prof. Edwin Jahngen, Advisor
- “The Scope and Limitations of the Reaction of Potassium Hydride with Thiones”
2003
- Pasha Mirazimi, Boston College – Udayan Mohanty, Advisor
- “Development of Models for the Dynamics of Oligomeric DNA Through Solid State Nanopore Channels”
- Travis R. Pribusauskas, Bridgewater State College – Steven Haefner, Advisor
- “Synthesis of Solvated Molybdenum Clusters from Molybdate”
- Rozalina Grubina, Harvard University – David R. Liu, Advisor
- “Assembly of a Cyclic Small Molecule Library Using DNA-Templated Synthesis”
- Kristin M. Felice, Stonehill College – Marilena Hall, Advisor
- “Modeling of the Zn2+ Coordinated Sites Zinc Metalloenzyme Using Peptide Phage Display”
2002
- Meaghan O’Keefe, Boston College – Shana O. Kelley, Advisor
- “Engineering Metal-DNA Linkages for Electrical DNA Sensing”
- John Christian Huetsch, Harvard University – Gregory L. Verdine, Advisor
- “Structural Studies of Yeast Topoisomerase II”
- Richard D. Langfield, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth – Gerald B. Hammond, Advisor
- “Synthetic Modification of SR-BI Inhibiting Molecules: A Chemical Genetic Approach for the Elucidation of SR-BI Mediated Transport Mechanism”
- Brooke Nussbaum, Tufts University – Krishna Kumar, Advisor
- “Effect of Pi-Cation Interactions on the Stability of Coiled Coil Protein”
2001
- Carmen Amaral , Bridgewater State College – Edward J. Bush, Advisor
- “A Green Chemistry Approach to the Biocatalytic Resolution of Racemic Cyanohydrins”
- Kimberly Rose, Eastern Nazarene College – Lowell Hall, Advisor
- “Topological Modeling of Biological Activity: The Hydrogen Electropological State”
- Ravi Vikram Shah, Harvard College – Gregory L. Verdine, Advisor
- “Development of a Ligand-activated Intein Splicing System”
- Matthew Tremblay, University of Massachusetts Lowell – Edwin Jahngen, Advisor
- “Synthetic Routes to Retinoids of Potential Biological Importance”
2000
- John P. Amara, Boston College – Prof. Lawrence Scott, Advisor
- “A Synthetic Route to a C48 Fullerene Fragment”
- Andrea Huang Kurtz, Harvard University – Prof. Hongkun Park, Advisor
- “Synthesis, Characterization and Template-Directed Assembly of Aluminum Nanocrystals: Steps Toward a Superconducting Nanocrystal Circuit”
- Matthew Cardello, Merrimack College – Prof. Cynthia McGowan, Advisor
- “Molecular Recognition in a New Class of Organic Compounds, (1,3-Octadinyl)-2(1H)-Pyridinones”
- Sergei Poletayev, University of Masachusetts Boston – Prof. John C. Warner, Advisor
- “Variable Wavelength Dependent Photo-Protecting Groups Using 2-Nitrobenzyl Ethers”
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May 09 2018
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