Keenan Woods conducts summer research

2010 Sep 2

A record number of California Lutheran University students participated in full-time research this summer.

With funding from university grants for undergraduate research and guidance from faculty mentors, 25 students studied topics ranging from the eye mutations in flies to Facebook's effect on student involvement. The students will present their findings at the 7th Annual Student Research Symposium from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, in Ahmanson Science Center. Most will also make presentations at professional conferences throughout the country.

The students include the following local resident:

Keenan Woods, a sophomore chemistry major from Poway, received a Swenson Science Summer Research Fellowship for his project titled "Extending the Substrate Scope for Catalyst-Transfer Cross-Coupling Reactions." He worked to optimize conditions for reactions that create a wide range of organic electronic materials such as solar cells and television screens.

CLU is located in Thousand Oaks, with Adult Degree Evening Program and graduate centers in Oxnard and Woodland Hills. With an enrollment of 3,900 students, CLU offers 36 undergraduate majors and graduate programs within the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business and School of Education. Doctoral degrees in educational leadership, higher education leadership and clinical psychology are also offered. Members of the CLU student body come from across the nation and around the world and represent a diversity of faiths and cultures. For more information, please visit http://www.callutheran.edu.