The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) publishes a quarterly review of undergraduate research highlights. These are brief descriptions of peer-reviewed research or scholarly publications that have been published within the last 6 months. Each publication must include at least one undergraduate co-author.
Clark University will be collecting submissions and sending them directly to the CUR. Please email your submission directly to CETL in Word format. The deadlines are to be submitted 6 week before the publication date of the next issue:
March 20 for June publication.
July for September publication.
October for December publication.
January 15 for March publication.
To submit an Undergraduate Research Highlight about your work, please follow the submission guidelines:
Please include the following in your description:
The description must be formatted as in the following sample highlight:
Wenzel TJ, Thurston JE, Sek DC, Joly J-P. The utility of crown ethers derived from methyl beta-D-galactopyranoside and their lanthanide couples as chiral NMR discriminating agents. Tetrahedron. 2001;12:1125-1130.
Two crown ethers were examined for their ability to produce enantiomeric discrimination in the NMR spectra of protonated primary amines. For several compounds, the discrimination was larger than observed with prior crown ether systems. One of the crown ethers contained a beta-diol functionality that can bind to lanthanide ions. The addition of a paramagnetic lanthanide ion caused pronounced shifts and enhancements in the discrimination in the spectra of several compounds. Thomas Wenzel is a professor of chemistry at Bates College. Jean-Pierre Joly is a professor of chemistry at the Universite Henri Poincare in Nancy, France. Jolene Thurston and David Sek participated in this research the summer after their junior years and then continued it as a senior thesis project. Both are currently employed in industry. The research was supported through a NSF-RUI grant.