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Summer Research
There are plenty of opportunities for chemistry and other science students to conduct research over the summer.
Summer Science Research
Each summer, there are opportunities for Beloit College students to work with science faculty on their research or through the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship Program. These opportunities are either 4 weeks or 8 weeks in length. Students receive college credit and a stipend for their work. All participating students live on campus.
The Summer 2024 research opportunities are listed below. All of these projects are part of the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship Program. Please note the length of the projects: 4 weeks (June 3 - June 28, 2024) and 8 weeks (June 3 - July 26, 2024). Students will work with a faculty mentor to develop a research question and participate in the weekly 2-hr professional development seminar (0.5-1 unit of special project). Fellows will receive a stipend of $2750 (4 weeks) or $5500 (8 weeks), to help offset the costs of summer tuition, and room and board. To review the available projects, click on the topics below. For more details, contact the principal investigator for each project directly. For general questions about the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship program, contact Dr. Tawnya Cary (caryt@beloit.edu).
Students interested in working in other STEM disciplines should check the respective discipline website or contact individual faculty members.
Projects
This project is part of the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship Program.
Pigments have been used for millennia for artistic expression, however there are pigments that were widely used that have adverse health affects. This project will focus on developing classroom lab procedures for synthesizing and characterizing pigments. Student researchers will synthesize toxic pigments as will as the compounds that replaced them. Students will gain an understanding for why these compounds are toxic to humans and develop lab content around these concepts.
- Focus Areas: Chemistry
- Project Duration: 8 weeks (06/03/23 - 07/26/23)
- Prerequisite Courses: CHEM 220 or CHEM 230
- Preferred Courses: (None)
- Number of Student Positions: 2
Principal Investigator
Corbin Livingston
This project is part of the Pakula Biomedical Fellowship Program.
My research is in the area of antibiotic discovery, with the goal of discovering new molecules that could be used as antibiotics (medicines to treat bacterial infections). I collaborate with the international Tiny Earth network of scientists and students working to mitigate the antibiotic crisis. This work draws upon skills and techniques from many disciplines: organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, microbiology, biochemistry, and genetics. The Tiny Earth Chemistry Hub at UW-Madison has identified many “high priority” bacterial isolates with antibiotic activity, and this collaborative project would include conducting bioassays to screen these isolates for antibiotic activity and performing genomic DNA extractions for future sequencing analysis.
- Project Duration: 4 weeks (06/03/23- 06/28/23)
- Prerequisite Courses: CHEM 117 (Introductory Chemistry) and BIOL 208 (Microbiology)
- Preferred Courses: CHEM/BIOL 260 (Nutrition and Metabolism)
- Number of Student Positions: 1
Principal Investigator
Kristin Labby