Jeong-Long Lin Fellowships Program
Contact Person: Professor Mary Roberts;
mary.roberts.1@bc.edu
The Chemistry Department at Boston College established the Jeong-Long Lin Summer Research Fellowships Program in 2008. The Program provides opportunities for undergraduate students to work in any of our faculty research laboratories along with Boston College undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Three summer research fellowships are available every summer for college students outside of Boston College, who are finishing their sophomore and junior years and who are under-represented in professions related to the chemical sciences. Under-represented groups include persons with disabilities; those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds; and persons from racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in the chemical sciences. Applicants are selected based on careful consideration of a variety of factors, including their academic record, experience, and personal background. The stipend is $4,000 for 10 weeks during the summer. An announcement of this opportunity is posted on the department’s website in the spring and is also sent out to area chemistry departments.
Professor Jeong-Long Lin, a visionary physical chemist, served as Chair of the Chemistry Department at Boston College during a pivotal period in the department’s history. His leadership emphasized the high standards of scholarship that have sustained the department’s excellence and continue to inspire us into the future.
The Merkert Chemistry Center welcomed the inaugural Jeong-Long Lin Fellows as they began their summer research projects in our faculty laboratories. Patrick Momplaisir (left) worked with Professor Larry McLaughlin’s research group on a project that entails synthesizing modified oligonucleotides for use in studying biological events such as RNA processing. Andrew Rivera (center) worked with Professor Kian Tan’s research group on a project to develop methods for controlling selectivity in organic reactions. Ervin Pejo (right) worked with Professor Mary Roberts’s research group on a project that looks at phospholipases and their interactions with membranes.
