Past Students & Mentors

Program Alumni

Summer 2008 ACS Project SEED @ UPenn

Walter Pinder - Overbrook High School
Mentor: Michael Heinrich,
Co-mentor: Tobias Baumgart, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Project: Fluorescence imaging of lipid monolayers

Mentor Michael Heinrich and student Walter Pinder

Angaree Smith - Overbrook High School
Mentor: Jean-Emmanuel Sarry, Ph.D.
Co-mentor: Simon Knight, Ph.D.
Department of Medicine
Project: Biochemical and flow cytometric analyses of human myeloid leukemic cells

Student Angaree Smith and mentor Jean Emmanuel Sarry

Ngoc Tran - South Philadelphia High School
Mentor: Brenda Sanchez,
Co-mentor: So-Jung Park, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Project: Nanoparticle Assembly directed by Peptide Templates

Mentor Brenda Sanchez and student Ngoc Tran

2008 Writing Tutors: Cara Bertozzi, Phillip Benedetti, Sumeet Khetarpal

Students; Walter, Angaree, and Ngoc during their visit to Gelest Inc.

Students; Walter, Angaree, and Ngoc working on their projects

Summer 2007 ACS Project SEED @ UPenn Students

Jin Gao - Benjamin Franklin High School
Mentor: Simon Knight, Ph.D. Dept of Medicine
Project: Transcriptional analysis of an iron regulated gene promoter using a lacZ gene reporter.

Jin Gao has been accepted to Temple University.

Christopher Griffin - Robert Lamberton High School
Mentor: Laif Alden Ph.D., Department of Chemistry
Project: Hydrogen Release from Ammoniaborane

Christopher Griffin has been accepted to the University of Pennsylvania.

Writing Tutors: Jason Hsu and Neil Nandi

Program Assistant: Hong-Mei Li

Summer 2006 ACS Project SEED students

Jessica Prince (Sayre High School) holding the DNA she isolated. Mentor: Simon Knight, Ph.D.		Timothy Robinson (Overbrook HS) Poster presentation, Rider University, NJ Mentors: Stephen Rudnick and Jyo Swaminathan, Ph.D.
Jessica Prince Poster presentation, Rider University, NJ		Amira Rogers (South Philadelphia HS) Poster presentation, Rider University, NJ Mentor: Lorenza Frisoni

Jessica Prince attends St Johns University, New York

Timothy Robinson attends the Pennsylvania State University

Amira Rogers attends LaSalle University

Summer 2005 ACS Project SEED students

Marc Davis Jr. - Overbrook High School, now at Ursinus College

Mentors: Stephen Rudnick and Jyo Swaminathan, Ph.D.

Wai Man - South Philadelphia High School, now at Drexel University

Simon Knight, Ph.D.

Students, Marc Davis Jr, and Wai Man present their research at Rider University ACS SEED symposium.

Summer 2004 ACS Project SEED student

Alan Nesbitt - South Philadelphia High School

Mentor: Simon Knight, Ph.D.

The ACS Project SEED high school program at the University of Pennsylvania was started in 2004 by Simon Knight and Ron O'Neal.