The Pacific Northwest Undergraduate Research Symposium on Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology is a new scientific meeting with an emphasis on promoting excellence and diversity in research conducted by undergraduate students within our region. The fourth annual meeting was hosted by the Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, and held in Corvallis, OR, on August 8 & 9, 2011.

Potential conferees are talented individuals presently studying chemistry or an allied discipline at the junior/senior undergraduate level and engaged in a significant research project in the general area of organic chemistry, including (but not limited to):

• biological chemistry • total synthesis of natural products

• synthetic methods development • organometallic chemistry

• preparation and study of novel organic materials

The 2011 PNWURS ...with thanks to the sponsors!

Attendance at the meeting is strictly limited (to 25 students), and participants selected on the basis of submitted research project abstracts and other application materials. All student conferees are required to make a presentation during the meeting, either a 15 min lecture, or a poster, with the available lecture slots being awarded to the most meritorious abstracts.

To encourage participation in the meeting, there are no registration fees for students, and travel (up to $500) and accommodation expenses for successful applicants will be covered by organizations sponsoring the symposium. Faculty wishing to attend the symposium are most welcome.

Symposium organizing committee 2011:

Prof. Paul Blakemore (OSU, symposium chair)

Prof. Christopher Beaudry (OSU, symposium co-chair)

Ms. Luanne Johnson (OSU, symposium secretary)

Financial support for the PNWURS from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences is gratefully acknowledged (via award number R13GM085865)

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