On April 4, 2000, the Center for Photochemical Sciences hosted a spring poster session with many of its 30 Ph.D. students participating. This event gave the Department of Chemistry faculty and students an opportunity to learn more about the many research projects underway at the Center for Photochemical Sciences.

Eminent science educator, Dr. George S. Hammond, was also in attendance. Dr. Hammond holds the position of Senior McMaster Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Center for Photochemical Sciences. In the 1960's, Dr. Hammond almost single-handedly created the field of organic photochemistry, laying the theoretical foundations for research in this area and for hundreds of commercial products developed from its applications.  Because Dr. Hammond virtually created the field of organic photochemistry, he received the United States highest science award in 1994---the National Medal of Science award. The Center for Photochemical Sciences is fortunate to have Dr. Hammond as a member of its faculty.

Dr. D. C. Neckers, Executive Director of the Center for Photochemical Sciences, discussing Ningning Zhao's poster on "Photochemistry of Nitro-Substituted Phosphine Oxides."	Anna Fedorova is explaining her research on the "Studies of Electron Transfer Along with Covalent Backbone of a Single a-helical Peptide Chain" with Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dr. George Hammond.
Hewa Anula is interested in research being conducted by fellow Ph.D. student Fei Wang on "Photoreaction of Pt (acac)2 with Nitrogen Containing Bases."	Dr. Phil Castellano is absorbed in Anna Kornilova research on "Electron Transfer in a Ruthenium-Modified Synthetic Polypeptide: A Pulse Radiolysis Study."