The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry showcases student work from various courses. It represents student scholarship of an exceptional quality for the undergraduate level.

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Submissions from 2023

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Repurposing the Calcium Biosensor Twitch-2B: Creating Transition Metal Detection Proteins Through Fluorescent Analysis, Sarah Mateer

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An Engineered Artificial Selection System for the Directed Evolution of Unnatural Cytochrome C Biosynthesis Enzymes, Noah Daniel Smith

Submissions from 2022

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Ionic Liquids as Both Solvent and Reagent in Electrophilic Addition Reactions, Hannah Artz and Roseann K. Sachs

Submissions from 2021

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Developing a reliable computational method to determine the allosteric sites to be targeted in finding non-aggregating allosteric inhibitors of PTP1B, Sarah Codd and Anne Reeve

Submissions from 2019

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Synthesis and Characterization of Carbon Nitride Films for the Reduction of Oxygen, Josiah Nisly

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Characterization of Alkanethiolate Self-assembled Monolayers on Zinc Selenide Thin Films, Sarah Kober O'Boyle

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Macrophyte Distribution in Limestone Streams of South Central Pennsylvania, Joshua Stone

Submissions from 2018

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A Novel Synthetic Pathway for Aspernigrin A, Daniel J. Lemen, Zebulun Cross, Duncan McDermond, and Anne Reeve

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Adsorption of Fluorescently Tagged Self-Assembled Monolayers onto Zinc Selenide Thin Films through Microcontact Printing, Juliya Mantsevich

Submissions from 2017

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Biocatalytic Reduction of Ketones and Imines Using Daucus carota Root, Anthony Bogetti

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Electrooptical dynamics of ultra-thin nematic liquid crystalline films supported on ZnSe functionalized with alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers, Elliot C. Rossomme, Nicholas Tay, and Alison Noble

Submissions from 2014

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Construction of a Glow-Discharge Plasma Microelectrode for the Synthesis of Inorganic Solids, Julie L. Fenton and Richard W. Schaeffer

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Analysis of Adsorbates on Polished Zinc Selenide, Emily J. Mellott, Vince Bojan, and Alison R. Noble

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Carboxylate Self-Assembled Monolayers on Polished Zinc Selenide, Emily J. Mellott and Alison R. Noble

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Investigating an Alternate Synthesis Pathway for Aspernigrin A, Wesley S. Robertson

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Toward the Synthesis of Aspernigrin A Precursor 6-Benzyl-4- hydroxypyran-2-one: Optimization and Cross-Coupling Strategies, Seth A. Sharber and Anne M. Reeve

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Fabricating a Nanoscale Electrode Array on Zinc Selenide for Studies of Long-chain Alkanethiol Monolayer Influence on Liquid Crystal Orientation, Nicholas Eng Soon Tay

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Quantification of Histidine from Plant Extracts using High Performance Liquid Chromatography and Electrochemistry, Janelle Veazey, Richard Schaeffer, and Michael Shin

Submissions from 2013

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Determination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Fish Using GC-MS, Kyle Kessler, Jeff Erikson, and Richard Schaeffer

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Methanothermus fervidus Histone Binding Affinity and Packaging of Archaeal DNA, Natalie Ziegler and Hannah S. Tims

Submissions from 2010

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A Quantitative Analysis of the Uptake of Heavy Metals into Common Garden Vegetables from Contaminated Soils, Jennifer Esbenshade

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Isolation of Class II sHsp 17.0 from Zea maize for Future Studies in Chaperone Activity and Subunit Exchange, Michele Schleich and Hannah Tims

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Activity of Traditional Topical Treatments against Pathogens Common in Wound Infections: Antimicrobial Activity of Traditional Treatments, Anna Wendel

Submissions from 2009

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Environmental Nickel and Arabidopsis thaliana: Accumulation, Localization, and the Effect of Propagation on a Nickel-Free Medium, Gabriel Mark Fickett

Submissions from 2008

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Oxidation of Small Alcohols Using Spinach Photosystem II: Use of a natural catalyst for potential green synthesis, Emily G. Forschler

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Rate of Nickel Accumulation in Arabidopsis Thaliana Plant Biomass, Adia D. Kelly

Submissions from 2007

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Organic Reactions in Ionic Liquids, Anna Beiler

Submissions from 2003

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Self-association studies of yeast TATA binding protein using an E. coli two-hybrid system, Michael Sauder, Claire Adams, and Michael Fried