| LVC Hosts Disappearing Boundaries Science Summer Research Conference |
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The science departments at Lebanon Valley College sponsored and hosted the third annual Disappearing Boundaries Summer Research Conference, a full-day summer undergraduate research symposium for science faculty and their research students from Central Pennsylvania colleges. The symposium, funded through a Merck/AAAS grant awarded to Lebanon Valley College in support of interdisciplinary research, brought together 58 students and 26 faculty from chemistry, biology, psychology, physics, and mathematics departments.
Dr. Wally Patton, associate professor of chemistry, wrote the successful grant Merck/AAAS proposal and served as organizer of the event. Attendees traveled from Elizabethtown, Ursinus, Albright, and Messiah colleges.
Following a welcome by Dr. Patton and LVC President Steve MacDonald, the group listened to three opening presentations. Drs. James McKay and Kristi Kneas of Elizabethtown College talked about their efforts to integrate real research activities into a senior-level integrated laboratory course in chemistry. Dr. Jon Coren, also from Elizabethtown, talked about his research group’s work with genomic libraries, and Dr. Roseann Sachs of Messiah College described her sabbatical experiences teaching a green chemistry lab in Cambodia.
After the talks, faculty and students gathered in break-out groups according to areas of research. The groups shared their work with their counterparts from other institutions in a free-ranging give-and-take discussion.After lunch, students presented two sequential poster sessions to their peers and faculty from all the institutions represented.
Dr. Tibor Sipos '64, president of Digestive Care Inc., presented the plenary lecture, “Protein (Enzyme) Drug Development in an FDA Regulated Environment,” in which he talked about his development of a pancreatic lipase therapy for patients with cystic fibrosis and other conditions causing a deficiency of digestive enzymes. Sipos is a 2011 recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from Lebanon Valley College.
View additional photos from the event at the Chemistry Department's Facebook page.
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