1998-99 Chemistry Senior Projects with Faculty Sponsors

 

Dr. L. French (Organic Chemistry)

Francis Musyoki

"Electronic Substituent Effects on the Regioselectivity of a Ring Contracting Rearrangement of Epoxidized Benzyne/Furan Cycloadducts. Synthesis of Substituted Indeno[2, 1 c]pyrazoles with Potential Pharmaceutical Significance."

 

Dr. N. Marano (Biochemistry)

Kristy Luong

"Microdomains in T Cell Membranes."

Dave Clark (with Dr. T. Budd, Biology)

"Using Fluorescence Microscopy to Identify Molecules on the T Cell Surface that Interact with Microdomains in T Cells."

 

Dr. J. Rupp (Inorganic and Physical Chemistry)

Ryan Callahan

"Investigation of Reaction Pathways using Computational Techniques."

Laura Hostetter (with Dr. T. Vincent and Dr. D. Scheel, Biology)

"How Octopus dofleini Choose Their Prey — by Population or Calorie Content?"

Kate Achilles (with Dr. T. Vincent and Dr. D. Scheel, Biology)

"Habitat Selection of Octopus dofleini Based Upon the Total Amount of Den Litter Collected in Intertidal vs. Subtidal Environments."

 

Dr. S. Stradling (Organic Chemistry)

Jason Kellogg

"Nutrasweet Investigations - Quantitative Analysis in Foodstuffs and Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions.

Janel Smith

"Regioselective Aldol Condensations - A Structure Analysis Problem."

 

Dr. K. West (Analytical Chemistry)

Steve Dow (with Dr. G. Emmert, Chemistry, Arkansas)

"Comparison of Conventional and Microwave Methods of Sediment Digestion for Trace Metal Determination using Atomic Absorbance Spectrometry"

Kostadin Kolev (with Dr. G. Emmert, Chemistry, Arkansas)

"Continued Studies of Chlorine Dioxide Analysis."

Andrew Owens (with Dr. J. Bursnall, Geology)

"X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Major Elements in Amphibole-Plagioclase Gneiss: Comparison to Existing Data"


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