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| Graduate Research Fellowships sponsored by OMNOVA |
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| The ACS and the Council of Chemical Research agree that the graduate education experience should include exposure to industrial chemistry. This exposure can take the form of a formal course in Industrial Chemistry or direct experience through a graduate internship program. The Chemistry department has been fortunate to collaborate with OMNOVA Solutions in a graduate internship program. |
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| OMNOVA Solutions is a maker of paper and fabric coatings, laminates, and other high performance chemicals. They have been very supportive of graduate internships in the areas of NMR and mass spectrometry. |
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| Solution NMR – Silapong Baiagern is a graduate student working in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Rinaldi. SIlapong has had extensive interaction with OMNOVA during his graduate career. He works at OMNOVA two days per week collecting and interpretating NMR spectra of some of the fluoropolymer coatings OMNOVA makes. His work extends beyond spectra acquisition in to the interpretation of spectra, training of a NMR technician, and, in collaboration with instrument engineers, troubleshooting instrument problems. |
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| Solid State NMR – Jennifer Cross is a graduate student n the laboratory of Dr. Matt Espe. Her graduate internship with OMNOVA involves the solid state NMR characterization of . She works in the Department of Chemistry obtaining and interpreting NMR spectra of . She regularly reports the results of her work at group meetings at OMNOVA. |
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| Mass Spectrometry – Francesco Pingitore is a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Chrys Wesdemiotis. He has been engaged in a graduate internship with OMNOVA over the past year where he worked two to three days per week. Francesco established size exclusion chromatography methods to separate components of a surfactant manufactured by OMNOVA. He used mass spectrometry to determine the structures of these compounds. His internship culminated with a seminar at OMNOVA where he presented the results of his work and a publication of the work in Macromolecules. |
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