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Welcome to the Office of Research and Experiential Learning. This office was established
to increase access to opportunities for science majors
by connecting them with existing opportunities and by cultivating
new opportunities with academic and corporate laboratories. These
opportunities may be in a number of venues, including on campus,
the local metropolitan area, cities in the US and international
locations.
Research collaborations are pivotal for students because they provide
an opportunity for students to learn to "do" science,
augmenting their intellectual grasp of scientific principles with
the practical skills and problem-solving by which science advances.
Experiential learning opportunities provide an opportunity for students to gain knowledge in a context outside of the classroom.
Visit our photogallery to see students at work.
Hot Off The Press
There have been several recent faculty/student publication collaborations including Paul Fischer’s and Paul Overvoorde's labs.
“[(2-(Diphenylphosphino)ethyl)cyclopentadienyl]tricarbonylmetalates: Supporting Ligands for Reactions at Group VI Metal-Copper Bonds.” Paul J. Fischer, Aaron P. Heerboth (’08), Zoey R. Herm (’07), Benjamin E. Kucera, Organometallics 2007, in press.
This manuscript describes new organometallic complexes discovered by Zoey Herm and Aaron Heerboth during summer 2006/2007 in the Fischer laboratory. Salts of
[(2-(diphenylphosphino)ethyl)cyclopentadienyl]tricarbonylmetalates, [M(CO)3(η5-CpPPh)]- (M = Cr, Mo, W), react with CuCl to afford useful intermediates that permit installation of phosphines at Cu(I) in a rare instance of nucleophilic attack at heterobimetallic M-Cu bonds without concomitant heterolytic cleavage. The CpPPh ligand supports M-Cu bonds considerably more effectively than does the harder
(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl)cyclopentadienyl (CpN) ligand; solutions of analytically pure samples of M’{CuPPh3}(μ-η5:η1-CpN) (M’ = Mo, W) slowly deposit metallic copper.
“(2-(Trimethylammonium)ethyl)cyclopentadienyltricarbonylmetalates: Group VI Metal Zwitterions.” Paul J. Fischer, Zoey R. Herm (’07), and Benjamin E. Kucera, Organometallics 2007, 26, 4680.
This manuscript describes new organometallic complexes discovered by Zoey Herm during summer 2006 in the Fischer laboratory. Zwitterionic group VI metal (2-(trimethylammonium)ethyl)cyclopentadienyltricarbonylmetalates are accessible by reduction of
[(2-(trimethylammonium)ethyl)cyclopentadienyl]iodotricarbonylmetal(II) iodides. Although Cp donation in these zwitterions is essentially identical that in [M(CO)3(η5-Cp)]- based on spectroscopic and crystallographic data, the through-space electrostatic interaction between the formal charges on the nitrogen and metal centers, absent structural perturbations due to ion-pairing, attenuates the metal-based reactivity of these zwitterions relative to [M(CO)3(η5-Cp)]-.
“Furylacrylic Acid Impairs Auxin Response in Arabidopsis” Sungur, Can., Miller, Sarah., Bergholtz, Johann., Hoye, Rebecca., Brisbois, Ronald., Overvoorde, Paul., Plant Cell Physiology 2007, in press
Students Participate in New Exciting Program at Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Scholars Program (MSP) is a collaborative effort between
several Minnesota private colleges and the Mayo Clinic Office of Intellectual Property, which is the technology transfer arm of Mayo Clinic. Teams of 4 or 5
undergraduate science and economics majors assist in the assessment of new product submissions by researchers at Mayo Clinic. Each student team is directed by an MBA student from St Thomas or Augsburg and is advised by a Licensing Manager from the Mayo Clinic Office of Intellectual Property. The student teams gain valuable insights and experience in the translational process associated with inventions and product development. The experience culminates with a presentation of the team's research findings, in the form of a business plan, to Mayo Licensing managers, representatives from the MN Private College Council, the Medtronic Foundation and the participating colleges. The presentation is at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Students participating in the Mayo Scholars Program in 07/08 included Jonas Hiltrop, Dorothy Gondwe, Jen-Hao Cheng, Simin Golestani, Meredith Pearcy, Colin Hottman, Zainab Mansaray and Hao Zou.
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