Undergraduate Research
Academic Spree Day and Fall Fest
Academic Spree Day (begun in 1991) and Fall Fest (begun in 2000) are two very popular annual events where students from every department get a chance to display and talk about their "fruits of labor" in the form of posters, papers, art work, etc. These events give students a chance to exhibit the work and/or research they have performed under the guidance of a faculty sponsor. Below is a list of our chemistry students and their research titles who have participated in these events.
Academic Spree Day Presentations
2011
Luke Nye '11 - Structures of
1,6-bisphenyl-1,3,4,3-hexanetetrone Derivatives. (sponsor: Professor Mark
Turnbull)
Khiem Nguyen '11 - Structure Prediction of Lysyl Oxidate using
Computational Methods. (sponsor: Professor Shuanghong Huo)
Mahmoud Abdalrahman '12 - Crystal Structure and Magnetic
properties of Copper coordination Compounds. (sponsor: Professor mark Turnbull
Alexander Gale '12 - Synthesis of 2, 3-Dimethylpyridine and its
Perdeuterated Form: Investigation in Structure and Magnetism. (sponsor:
Professor Mark Turnbull)
William Trout '13 & Christopher Quan '12 - Triazole
functionalized polysiloxanes as solid electrolytes for Dye Sensitized solar
Cells. (sponsor: Professor Sergio Granados-Focil)
Catherine Phillips '13 & William Trout '13 - A Dangerous
Misconception I: Climate Change Myths I. (sponsor: Professor Christina McGraw)
Bobby Naughton '11 & Phillip Boglisch '12 - A Dangerous
Misconception II: Climate Change Myths II (sponsor: Professor Christina McGraw)
Luke Witthoft '12 - Synthesis of mesoporous Silica Films for
Use as Hosts for Transition Metal Oxides. (sponsor: Professor Luis Smith)
2010
Kathryn MacDowell '10 - Limited Proteolysis and Circular Dichroism Studies of Amyloid-beta 42
Oligomerization. (sponsor:
Professor Noel Lazo)
Samuel Sparks '10 - Effects of the S20G Mutation on the Aggregation of Human Amylin.
(sponsor: Professor Noel Lazo)
2009
Johanna Finn '09 - Mercury resistance and reduction by Shewanella algae BrY. (sponsor: Professor Healther Wiatrowski)
Susan Herringer '09 - Synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties of bis(S-pyrazine)dihalocopper(II) [S=Cl or CN; halogen = Cl or Br]. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
David Carnevale '09 - Mn(II) and Co(II) halide complexes with 2-amino-3-methylpyridinium and 2-amino-5-methylpyridinium. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
Melissa Loving '09 - Hard templating of inorganic oxides in a silicon oxide mesopore. (sponsor: Professor Luis Smith)
Kelley Shortsleeves '09 - Chemistry of the 2-pyridone copper halide system. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
Kristine Meador '10 - Biophysical studies of a prostatic acidic phosphatase peptide associated with enhanced HIV transmission. (sponsor: Professor Noel Lazo)
Justin Conway '09 - Sol-gel supported proton shuttles as proton exchange membranes for water-free hydrogen fuel cells. (in collaboration with Yan (Ricky) Meng, graduate student; sponsors: Professor Sergio Granados-Focil and Professor Luis Smith)
2008
Underlined titles link to a Powerpoint presentation
Lincoln Muhoro '08 - Biophysical studies of Collagen VII. (sponsor: Professor Noel Lazo)
Stacy Lawrence '08 and Lincoln Muhoro '08 - Biophysical studies of keratin peptides associated with Epidermolysis bullosa. (sponsor: Professor Noel Lazo)
Susan Herringer '09 - Deuteration: Preparation for neutron scattering studies. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
Alexander Parent '08 - Synthesis and characterization of bimetallic pyradinedicarboxylate complexes. (sponsors: Prof. Mark Turnbull and Professor Christopher Landee)
Kelley Shortsleeves '09 - Transition metal complexes of dihaloaminopyridines: syntheses, crystal structures, and magnetic properties of [Cu(3,5-diCAP)2X2] and [Cu(3,5-diBAP)2X2]. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
Miranda Simon '08 - On the effects of the S20G mutation on the folding and aggregation of the Islet amyloid polypeptide. (sponsor: Professor Noel Lazo)
Salvatore Pezzella '09 - Effects of a beta-glycine substitution in the folding nucleus of the Amyloid-beta protein. (sponsor: Professor Noel Lazo)
David Carnevale '09 - Synthesis and analysis of 2,2'-dimethyl-4,4'-bipyridine coordination complexes. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
Dmitry Merzon '09 - Characterization of the Arabidopsis mitochondrial helicase. (sponsor: Professor Donald Crampton)
Fall Fest Presentations
2010
Laura Hedden '11 - Designing Specific Substrates and Inhibitors of Lysyl Oxidase. (sponsor: Professor Frederick Greenaway)
Stephanie Korunow '12 - Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Properties of Pyrazine-Copper Halide Ladders and Bi Bridged Chains. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
Luke Nye '11 - Synthesis of a Family of 1,6-bisphenyl-1,3,4,6-hexanetetrone Derivatives. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
Christopher Quan '12 - Iodide conducting polysiloxanes for dye sensitized solar cells. (sponsor: Professor Sergio Granados-Focil)
Veli Selmani '12 - Copper-Pyrazine Linear Complexes: The Effect of Electron Density on Magnetic Exchange. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
2009
Veli Selmani '12 - 2-Pyridone/pyrazine Complexes of Copper (II) Perchlorate: Effects of 2-pyridone Substitution on Pyrazine Mediated Magnetic Exchange. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
Hui Yang '12 - Synthesis and Characterization of RbLaNb207 and KLaNb207. (in collaboration with Ting Liu, graduate student; sponsor: Professor Luis Smith)
Samuel Sparks '10 - 19F NMR and Mutational Studies of the Aggregation of the Islet Amyloid Polypeptide. (sponsor: Professor Noel Lazo)
Kathryn MacDowell '10 - Limited Proteolysis and Circular Dichroism Studies of the Aggregation of the Amyloid-beta 42 Protein. (sponsor: Professor Noel Lazo)
Nicole Rogers '10 - Structural Studies of the Wild-type and Dutch Amyloid-beta Proteins in the Presence of Model Membranes. (Sponsor: Professor Noel Lazo)
Abhijit Srungavarapu '12 - Model Compound Study of Lithium Transport Through Polymeric Matrices: Towards Better Lithium-ion Batteries. (sponsor: Professor Sergio Granados-Focil)
Christopher Quan '12 - Sol-gel Threaded Proton "Shuttles" as Proton Exchange Membranes for Hydrogen Fuel Cells. (in collaboration with Justin Conway, graduate student; sponsor: Professor Sergio Granados-Focil)
2008
Susan Herringer '09 - Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Properties of bis(3-amino-2-chloropyridinium) tetrahalocuprate (II) [halogen = Cl or Br]. (sponsor: Professor Mark Turnbull)
Melissa Loving '09 - Filling a Silica Mesopore with Water Soluble Precursors of LiLaTi03. (sponsor: Professor Luis Smith)
Di Dong '10 - Structural Studies of Protofibrils from the Amyloid-beta Protein. (sponsor: Professor Noel Lazo)
Justin Conway '09 - Sol-gel Supported Proton "shuttles" as Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cells. (in collaboration with Robert P. Doyle, graduate student; sponsor: Professor Sergio Granados-Focil)
Ricky Lane '09 - Isolation of a Prophage Helicase from Bacteroides Thetaiotaomicron. (sponsor: Professor Donald Crampton)