In the 1998/99 school year, over 30 applications were received from students at the ten host institutions. The ten 1999 RISE Scholars are listed below, along with their home institutions and the institutions at which their awards were held. Almost all of the ten students were also awarded NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards, held concurrently with the RISE Scholarships.

Fast Radiationless Decay of the Electronic Excited States of Several Guaiazuleno-Substituted Chromophores: Making Something out of Nothing

with Dr. Ron Steer, University of Saskatchewan

Reactivity of Substituted Cumyl Cations in Alkali-metal-exchanged Y-Zeolites

with Dr. Fran Cozens, Dalhousie University

Probing the Role of Cytochrome C Peroxidase as a Peroxynitrite Reductase

with Dr. Ann English, Concordia University

Characterizing the Reverse Reaction of the Photodimerization of Thymidylyl-(3'®5')-Thymidine (TpT) using Absorption and Raman Spectroscopy

with Dr. Glen Loppnow, University of Alberta

Complexation Dynamics of Naphthalene Derivatives in Bile Salt Aggregates

with Dr. Cornelia Bohne, University of Victoria

The Base-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of 1,1-Diphenylgermene

with Dr. Willie Leigh, McMaster University

Living Free Radical Polymerization Methods

with Dr. Tito Scaiano, University of Ottawa

Dynamics of the Reactions of Carbocations with 2-Deoxyguanosine and DNA

with Dr. Bob McClelland, University of Toronto

Denaturation Studies on Tryptophan Mutants of Rat-Calmodulin

with Dr. Art Szabo, University of Windsor

Photoinduced Bimolecular Processes in Solid b-Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complexes

with Dr. Monica Barra, University of Waterloo