Mentoring students
I work particulary closely with undergraduate students and even high school students that want to do research in the Institute. Many have gone on to pursue advanced degrees. Some are co-authors on peer-review publications. For example, Brad Steinhoff, now a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, initiated the project involving the mineralization of chlorinated phenols which resulted in the publication in Science. Ms Sherry Mayer, who will be starting graduate research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, was a recent participant in the 2003 “Undergraduate Research Posters on the Hill”. 
Sherry was the first Carnegie Mellon student to participate in this event. Here she is seen meeting with U.S. Representative Mike Doyle (PA-14). Finally, Ms. Daile Flurry, who joined the group through her association with the CMU Minority Science Outreach Program, has worked in the group after school and during the summer. She has won a number of awards based on her work in the Institute: First Place at the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Sciences, First Place at the Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair, an Intel Environmental Award, First Place in the Charles Drew Science Fair, and First Place in the State Science Fair.