Undergraduate Web Projects 2002
These projects were all done by Level II Chemistry students in the 3 week period between taking their final exams and receiving their results, June 2002. They were written with minimal formal instructions - the students were just told to 'teach themselves how to write a web page, and write something interesting on a chemical or scientific theme'. The best (four) sites were entered for the Royal Society of Chemistry ExemplarChem National Competition. The sites were judged on (i) Quality and quantity of scientific content, (ii) Design, and (iii) Internet awareness.
Note: These projects work best with Internet Explorer, since they were mostly written with MS Frontpage. If you use Netcape you may sometimes find a few strange formatting errors, or even crashes. Also, you may need the Chime plug-in to see the 3D molecular structures present on many of the pages. Some of the pages also require the Flash and Shockwave plug-ins.
The local Bristol competition was won by James Crabb (see below) who wins £50, and the 4 sites entered for the RSC Exemplarchem competition were:
| CRABB, James | Alchemy |
| GRANT, Ian | Potential Energy Surfaces and Conical Intersections |
| LEVASSEUR, Kirsty | Antiretroviral Drugs in the Treatment of HIV |
| TAN, Emily | Nanoparticles |
However, this year there were so many superb projects that it was difficult to choose between them. In fact, it was so close between the top 11 sites, that we have also submitted the following 7 extra sites, which were put forward to ExemplarChem as Exhibit-only sites.
Stop press: 30/11/02 - At the ExemplarChem prizegiving ceremony yesterday, three of the above projects won prizes, and a cheque for £250. They were James Crabb - Alchemy, Ian Grant - Potential Energy Surfaces, and Kirsty Levasseur - AntiRetroviral drugs. Well done to all those who took part!
Honourable mentions for very good sites also go to: Elizabeth Wrigglesworth, Lik Ren Tai, Margaret Spence, James Senior, Zoe Schnepp, Rebecca Sage, Fiona Rawlinson, Samuel Murphy, Fiona Jeffery, Sarah Hull, Stephen Homer, Louise Homer, Declan Fleming, Laura Baldelli, Lucy Bowen, Tim Aldridge, Jon Elsworth, Philip Gray, Josephine Jones and Heulwen Price, which only missed out being in the top ten by 1 or 2 marks. Some of these projects may well become Molecule of the Month pages next year...
The full list of projects submitted this year are:
Paul May, Chemistry Webmaster, June 2002.