SUNRISE Education and Research Program, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, UND


Would you like to be involved in the development of innovative solutions to the sustainable energy problems currently facing our society? SUNRISE, UND's sustainable energy research group, is offering a 10-week summer research program for chemistry-focused undergraduate research that contributes to the advancement of sustainable energy technologies. Each undergraduate will gain professional research experience working with top researchers in the region. A variety of social activities are planned to enrich your summer in Grand Forks.

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Financial Benefits

• $4,000 stipend
• free on-campus housing with 19-meal-per-week plan
• travel subsidies

Academic Benefits

• research experience
• exposure to environmental research
• training in safety and ethics
• assistance in choosing your career path

Requirements

• minimum GPA of 3.0
• US citizenship or permanent residence
• sophomore or junior standing (exceptional freshmen also encouraged to apply)

Postmark Deadline: April 1, 2010

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Native Americans, Hispanics, and other under-represented groups are encouraged to apply.


How can our program help you?

• Engage in research activities that will introduce you to research as a career option with graduate studies as a next step in your development.
• Increase participation by Native Americans, Hispanics and other underrepresented groups.
• Encourage your interest in sustainable energy chemistry and/or chemical engineering. Fields such as biofuels, wind energy, solar energy, clean coal, and fuel cells can be chosen.
• Provide you with experience in investigating multi-disciplinary problems through collaborative research. The best solutions for today's problems come from a team based approach, drawing from a broad range of expertise provided by inter-disciplinary researchers.
• Help you gain skills to deal with issues concerning the global supply and demand of energy. As the number of issues related to energy proliferate, such as energy security, global warming, the rising cost of energy and potential near-term shortages; the next generation of scientists and engineers will be required to understand, develop and improve sustainable energy technologies.

• Sampling Artifacts in Impedance Spectroscopy of Individual Cells of a 1.2 kW Fuel Cell Stack
  
• Vapor-Liquid Equilibria Through HMC Simulations in the Grand Canonical Ensemble Using a Wang-Landau Sampling
  
• Crystal Nucleation in a Pd-Ni Alloy
  
• Atmospheric Reaction of PAHs
  
• Optimization and Development of Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) for Simultaneous Analysis of a Wide Range of PAHs and Their Polar Derivatives
  
• Synthesis and Application of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube/Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Nanocomposites as Se(IV) Adsorbents
  
• Role of Organic Acids in Atmospheric Aerosols
  

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• Transformations of Trace Elements in Coal-Biomass Combustion
  
• Atmospheric Aerosol Chamber Experiments
  
• Evaluation of Biofuel Production from Sunflower Hulls
  
• Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Dilute Sulfuric Acid Pretreated Kenaf Using Response Surface Methodology
  
• Nucleation of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
  
• Chemistry of Polymer Formation during Vegetable Oil Cracking
  
• Accurate Aldehyde Extraction from Coal-Derived Particulate Matter
  
• Modeling Trace Elements Atomization in Coal Combustion Furnaces Using a Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
  
• Chromatographic Characterization of Biofuels
  
• Catalytic Reactions for Biofuels Production
  
• Developing a New Catalyst for Photocatalytic Oxidation
  
• High-throughput Experimentation and Combinatorial Chemistry for the Development of Catalysts for Biofuels Production
  
• Development of New Organometallic Catalysts
  
• Absorbable Antimicrobial Battlefield Hemostat
  
• Computational Chemistry Research in Coal
  
• Uncertainty Quantification in Modeling Advanced Combustion Systems
  
• Stereospecific Membranes
  
• Catalyst Alternatives for Biofuel Decarboxylation