2012 Undergraduate Science Research Symposium

Andres Palomo Reactivity of Protein Cysteines with Fluorescent Glutathione. Advisor: Lisa Landino

Elizabeth Childress Fluorescence Sensing of Mercury by Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles. Advisor: Elizabeth Harbron

Will Czaplyski Synthesis and Fluorescence Studies of pH-Responsive Rhodamine B Derivatives. Advisor: Elizabeth Harbron

Alana Ogata and Natalie Wong Using Single Molecule Fluorescence to Study Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Advisor: Kristin Wustholz

David Hill Design and Synthesis of Novel Hydrogen-Rich Polyimides for Radiation Shielding. Advisor: Robert Orwoll

Kevin Kaurich Synthesis of a Silver-Doped Polyimide. Advisor: Robert Orwoll

Geoffrey Geberth Novel Polymers for NASA. Advisor: Richard Kiefer

Ingrid Mielke-Maday, Ryan Shintani, Charles Blevins, Aidan De Sena, Jaeton Glover, John-Andrew Hocker, Greg Ginsburg, Andrew Morris, Min Seo, Erin Hills, Yvonne Mack, Anne Rhudy, and Natalie Hudson-Smith Hydrolysis of Polyamide 11 as Related to Humidity. Advisor: David Kranbuehl

Charlotte Platner and Sophia Dudte Gas-Phase fragmentation and H/D exchange behavior of tripeptides containing lysine homologs. Advisor: John Poutsma

Charles Wang Characterizations of Copper(I) Iodide-Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Oxygen Heterocyclic Ligand Complexes. Advisor: Robert Pike

Lori Piasecki, Priya Vyas, and Corbin Muetterties (not in picture) Gas-Phase Acidities and Proton Affinities of Homoserine and Homocysteine from the Extended Kinetic Method. Advisor: J.C. Poutsma

Lars Dunaway Luminescent detection of volatile nitrogen and sulfur compounds on CuI surfaces. Advisor: Robert Pike

Amy Green, Hannah Naughton, and Zachariah Nealy Prodan derivatives as chemosensors of solvent acidity. Advisor: Chris Abelt

Matt Van Dongen and Christopher Komatsu (not in picture) Comparative Magnetic Behavior of Some Nickel Halide Monohydrates and Monodeuterates. Advisor: Gary DeFotis

Ting Zhang Comparison of Tenax-coated Fibers for Solid-phase Microextraction. Advisor: Gary Rice

Alex Chinn and Kaila Margery Diels Alder Cyclizations of 2,5 - Diketopiperazine Dienes. Advisor: Jonathan Scheerer

John Lovette Evaluation of Microconcentrators for MEMS Based Chromatography Systems. Advisor: Gary Rice