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.
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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
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Jessica Prince (Sayre High School) Mentor: Simon Knight, Ph.D.
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Timothy Robinson (Overbrook HS) Mentors: Stephen Rudnick and Jyo Swaminathan, Ph.D. |
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Amira Rogers (South Philadelphia HS) 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.
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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.










