Opportunities for Travel

Spectroscopy at national and international facilities:

X-ray absorption experiments at the Stanford Synchrotron Research Laboratory
in Palo Alto, California

X-ray absorption experiments at the Advanced Photon Source
in Chicago, Illinois

Inelastic neutron scattering experiments at Los Alamos National Laboratory
in Los Alamos, New Mexico

Neutron diffraction at ISIS (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
in Oxford, England

Industrial research collaborations:

	Chemical engineering graduate student Cori Demmelmaier presented her research at Dow Performance Plastics and Chemicals R&D in Freeport, TX, in June 2006.
	Chemistry graduate student Brian Peoples spent a month at the Mitsubishi Chemical Research Company's facility in Yokohama, Japan during the fall of 2005, scaling up clay activated polymerization reactions. This MC-CAM sponsored project aims to develop well exfoliated polymer clay nanocomposites using in situ polymerization methods.
	Chemical engineering graduate student Tony Moses spent two weeks in Midland, MI at Dow's Corporate R&D Center in summer, 2005, testing new olefin metathesis catalysts in a bench-scale stirred batch reactor. This DOE-sponsored project aims to develop functional-group tolerant heterogeneous catalysts that can be regenerated.

Academic research collaborations:

Chemistry graduate students Sam Fleischman and Rob Savinelli spent two and four months respectively at the State Key Laboratory of Catalysis at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in Dalian, China during the summer and fall of 2006. Sam worked on UV Raman spectroscopy of air sensitive cyclic compounds in Professor Li Can's laboratory. Rob worked in Professor Bao Xinhe's lab, where he continued his molybdenum carbide research by evaluating his catalysts for new reactions and testing techniques.

Chemical engineering student Cori Demmelmaier and postdoctoral researcher Rosemary White have worked in the Department of Inorganic, Physical, and Materials Chemistry at the Università di Torino in Turin, Italy during the summer of 2007.

International meetings:

	Chemical engineering graduate student Cori Demmelmaier and Post Doctoral Researcher Rosemary White presented posters at the 41st Annual IUPAC World Chemistry Congress in Turino, Italy in August 2007 .
	Chemistry graduate students Sam Fleischman and Rob Savinelli attended a workshop on heterogeneous catalysis and surface chemistry in Dalian, China in June 2007. Also in attendance were undergraduate research students Justin Butler and Laurel Wixson.
	Chemistry graduate students Brian Peoples and Bryanna Kunkel attended the Brazil - USA Workshop on Materials in Gramado, Brazil in April 2007.
	Chemistry graduate student Rob Savinelli attended the 13th Chinese National Catalysis Society meeting in Lanzhou, China in September 2006.
	Chemistry graduate student Rob Savinelli presented on his research experience with National Science Foundation PIRE ECCI program in Dalian to the American and Chinese delegates at the 12th US China Joint Commission meeting on Science and Technology held in Beijing, China from October 18th and 19th, 2006.