I worked with Dr. Karen Sentell, when she was still at UVM (she resigned in the spring of 1995, just after receiving tenure, and took a job with CIBA Vision in Atlanta, Georgia). The project involved reading about cyclodextrins and their inclusion complexes, in relation to capillary electrophoresis. I also trained a bit on the 500 mHz (Bruker) NMR in the Chemistry Department at UVM, with a grad student in Sentell's research group, Jason Dickens. I was planning on doing 2-D NMR experiments on beta-cyclodextrin and some substituted cyclodextrins, by themselves and with some enantiomeric compounds that Sentell was interested in. Unfortunately, a combination of the fact that we weren't very on the ball about getting started on the experiments early in the semester, the fact that Dr. Sentell decided to leave UVM, which shifted her priorities and responsibilities, and the fact that the 250 mHz NMR failed half way through the semester, forcing folks who depended on that machine to use the 500 mHz NMR, knocking my project off of the ladder, because I was, as an undergraduate, at the bottom of the pecking order, and the experiments we were planning would have tied up the machine for days at a time.... resulted in the fact that I didn't finish the experimental work, and the project became more of a library research sort of project... I still learned a whole lot, and benefited in uncountable ways from attending group meetings and sharing office space with the grad students in her group. Horrah.