State Undergraduate Research Fellowships

The University once again leads all state institutions in the number and value of State Undergraduate Research Fellowships awarded to its students. A total of 55 students, representing fiveof the university’s colleges, received SURF awards for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Awards in chemistry and biochemistry
Britton Blough “Towards Understanding the Non- ClassicalSecretion of the Human Fibroblast Growth Factor,” mentor T.K.S. Kumar

Whitney Gammill “A comparative Study of the Use of High-linoleic Acid Vegetable Oilsin Producing Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA),” mentor Andrew Proctor (food science)

Nicole McClellan “Assessment of Antimicrobial and Antiangiogenic Activity and Membrane Interactions of Lactoferricin Peptides,” mentor Denise Greathouse

Olena Pickett “A Study of the Synthesis and Chemistry of Metallaanthracenes,” mentor Neil Allison

Rachel Thomas “Influence of Proline upon the Folding of a Designed Transmembrane Alpha-Helical Peptide,” mentor Roger Koeppe

Blake Williams “Examinations into the Utility of the Acyclic Allylic Diazene Rearrangement,” mentor Matt McIntosh

For a list of SURF recipients see http://fellowships.uark.edu/index.php/surf_history/default/