Searsmont Native Taylor Williams Named Stonehill SURE Scholar

EASTON, MA (04/10/2013)(readMedia)-- A total of 50 Stonehill College students will work with 32 faculty members on a variety of research projects over the coming summer of 2013 and Searsmont native Taylor Williams, a sophomore at the College, will work with another student and with Cheryl Schnitzer, Associate Professor of Chemistry, on Artificial Photosynthesis.

This research will focus on the light havesting antenna complex (LH2) system of photosynthesis and the dynamics of energy transfer among components of the complex. To do this, they will probe the complex and control the process using a laser light. Williams, a biochemistry major, and the other student, a chemical engineering major, will operate the laser system and analyze the data extracted. The team hopes to present their work at Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science or the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.

The scholars and their faculty mentors are the 18th group to work under the Stonehill Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program, which provides students with an opportunity to perform significant, publishable research under the guidance of an experienced faculty researcher. The research experience will help to provide students with a competitive advantage in graduate and professional school applications and in post-college employment opportunities, as well as to provide assistance to faculty in research activities.

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