In its third year, the RISE program received over 40 applications from students at ten host universities. The programme was expanded in 1997 to include Professor Ron Steer of the University of Saskatchewan. The nine 1998 RISE scholars are listed below, along with their home universities and the universities at which they took up their awards.

Electrostatic Effects on the Fluorescence Properties of Conformations of Tryptophan in Dipeptides

with Dr. Art Szabo, University of Windsor

Characterization of the Intermediates from Photolysis of 4-Azidostilbene

with Dr. Bob McClelland, University of Toronto

Host/Guest Photochemistry: Calixarenes as Reaction Media

with Dr. Monica Barra, University of Waterloo

Measurement of Acid Diffusion in Thin Polymer Films Using Laser Flash Photolysis

with Dr. Tito Scaiano, University of Ottawa

b-Heterolysis of Phenoxy-substituted Radicals

with Dr. Fran Cozens, Dalhousie University

Psoralens

with Dr. Glen Loppnow, University of Alberta

The Photochemistry of Arylmethylsilacyclobutanes

with Dr. Willie Leigh, McMaster University

Investigation of the Dynamics of Xanthone and Xanthone Derivatives in Cyclodextrins

with Dr. Cornelia Bohne, University of Victoria

Photochemistry of the Second Excited State of Substituted Azulenes

with Dr. Ron Steer, University of Saskatchewan