Past Honors Projects

Jack R. Callahan: "Developing methods of transient absorption spectroscopy for the study of triplet state photoacids'"

Kevin Jairre Fleshman: "The Photocatalytic Degradation of 17α-ethynylestradiol (EE2) and Related Estrogens"

Seamus Frey: "Structural and methodological and factors influencing the sorption of alkylpyridiniums to aluminosilicates"

Emily Grace Herndon: "Identifying crustacean neuropeptides and precursor-related peptides by LC/MS: An investigation of strategies for extraction and orthogonal separations"

Zubin Jay Kenkare: "An Exploration of the Room Temperature Growth and Tuning of Cobalt Hydroxide Carbonate Morphologies and Assemblies"

Colleen Hughes McAloon: "Phenylisonitrile Ligand Synthesis and Coordination to Cobalt to Form a Catalyst for the Selective Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins"

Mariah McKenzie: "Sorption of Cationic Heterocyclic Amines to Soils: Effects of Charge Delocalization and other Factors"

Rachel E. Nealon: "Photoacidic properties of 8-amino-2-naphthol in imidazolium salts"

Eliana Roberts: "Synthesis and Metalation of a Bifunctional Ligand for Hydrogen Activation"

Ibrahim G. Saleh: "Development of a Schiff base Synthetic Platform for 8-phenyliminonaphthol Photoacids"

Francesca Ann Cawley: "Predicting Anionic Pharmaceutical Sorption to Soils Using Probe Compounds"

Alexander Avrom Kreines: "Investigating the Effects of Mixed Solvents on the Excited State Proton Transfer Mechanisms of 8-Amino-2-naphthol"

Oliver M. Nix: "Investigating the Photoacidic Properties of 8-benzylideneamino-2-naphthol"

Emily Yuan-Ann Pan: "Discovery and Characterization of Novel Crustin Family Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) in the American Lobster, Homerus americanus, Using Transcriptomics and Peptidomics"

Jeffrey Charles Price: "The Photocatalytic Degradation of Ibuprofen and Three Beta-Blockers Using BiOCl: An Investigation into the Mechanisms Responsible for Photocatalytic Activity"

William Joseph Rackear: "Hypersensitization of Helicobacter pylori to Antibiotics through Perturbation of Bacterial Glycan Armor"

Benjamin William Cook: "Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Probe Compounds at Predicting Anionic Pharmaceutical Sorption to Soils"

Chloe Anne Renfro: "Assessing the Accuracy of Quantum Monte Carlo Pseudopotentials for CO2 Capture in Metal Organic Frameworks"

Gabrielle Sohn Vandendries: "Solvent Effect on Excited State Proton Transfer Mechanism of 8-Amino-2-Naphthol"

Michael Russell Harris: "N,N’-Dimethyimidazolium-2-Carboxylate as a Ligand Precursor for the Accession of a Constrained Olefin Dimerization Catalyst"

Julia Hazlitt Morris: "Phenylisocyanide Ligand Synthesis and Coordination to a Cobalt Catalyst for Dimerization of Linear Alpha Olefins"

Thomas Patrick Regan: "Computational Investigation of the Ground States and Luminescent Excited States of Ruthenium(II) and Platinum(II) Photoactive Complexes: Insights into the Design of New Ruthenium(II)-Based Molecular Photocatalysts and Enhanced Understanding of MetalMetal Bonded Exciplexes"

Katharine Billings Toll: "Determination of the Relationship between Peptoid Catalyst Oligomeric Length and Catalytic Enantioselectivity of Trifluoromethylation of Aldehydes"

Paige Joann Brown: "The Effect of Solvent on Excited-State Proton Transfer in 3-amino-2-naphthol"

Catherine M. Call: "Identification of Neuropeptides Using Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry: An Evaluation of High-pH Fractionation Prior to Analysis"

Taylor Lenee Yoder: "Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) in the American Lobster, Homarus americanus: Changes to Hemocytes and AMPs as a Function of Molt Status"

Laura Fei Cotter: "Excited State Proton Transfer of 7-amino-2-naphthol"

Daniel Do: "Mass Spectrometric Detection of Crustin Family Antimicrobial Peptides in Hemocytes and Plasma of the Lobster, Homarus americanus"

Ryan Christopher Keefe: "8-Quinoyl-Tetramethylcyclopentadiene: A Supporting Ligand for the Cobalt Catalyzed Dimerization of Linear α-Olefins"

Jack Christopher Sharland: "Synthesis and Structural Characterization of β-amide/ thioamide-Containing Peptoids"

Benjamin Henry Sullivan Torda: "Evaluation of Copper(II) Complexes of Histidine as Catalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction"

Leah Hannah Alper: "Predicting Sorption of Anionic Pharmaceuticals to Soils: An Evaluation of Probe Compounds"

Danielle Haas Freeman: "Building a Mechanistic Understanding of the Sorption of Substituted Pyridines to Aluminosilicate Clays"

Malcolm Storey Groves: "Aqueous Excited-State Proton Transfer in 8-Amino-2Naphthol and 5-Amino-2-Naphthol"

Michael Cameron Paul: "Experimental Determination of Redox Potentials of Environmentally Relevant Pollutants"

Timothy Bartlett Boit: "Study of Amide and Thioamide Side Chain Influence on cis/trans Isomerism of Peptoid Backbone Amides"

Alandra Marie Lopez: "Sorption of Polyfunctional Ionogenic Organic Compounds to Soils via Surface Complexation and Cation Bridging: Evaluation of Probe Compounds"

Haley Spina Miller: "Addition of Basic Sites to the Glycans of Helicobacter pylori to Increase MS/MS Peak Abundance"

Paige Elizabeth Speight: "A Mass Spectral Investigation of the Reaction of Conjugated Aromatics in Pyrolysis Oils"

James Kingsley Sullivan: "Structural Prediction of Substituted Pyridine Cation Exchange to Montmorillonite and Illite"

Kasidet Trerayapiwat: "Benchmarking ab Initio Computational Methods for the Quantitative Prediction of Sunlight-Driven Pollutant Degradation in Aquatic Environments"

Giap Huy Vu: "Hormonal Changes in Hemolymph as a Function of Molt Stage: A Proteomic Investigation of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus, Using Liquid Chromatography — Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)"

Amanda Kelley Howard: "Characterization and Quantification of AST-C Peptides in Homarus americanus Using Mass Spectrometry"

Maxim Kyrylo Kostyk: "Synthesis of a Phenylphosphabenzene Ligand for the Improvement of a Cobalt-based a-Olefin Dimerization Catalyst"

Thomas Michael Kramer: "The Coordination of 8-quinolyl-3-methylcyclopentadiene to Cobalt: Developing an Organometallic Catalyst for the Selective Dimerization of Linear a-Olefins"

Henry Emmet Pratt: "Characterization of Glycosylated CPRP Neuropeptides in the American Lobster Homarus americanus Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry"

Adam Michael Childs: "Synthesis and Characterization of Thiopeptoids as Potential Biological Probes"

Peyton Carter Morss: "The Photodegradation of Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds in Aqueous Solutions"

Takahiro Ignacio Nakamura: "Design and Synthesis of a Peptoid Catalyst for the Enantioselective Trifluoromethylation of Ketones"

Joshua V. Pondick: "The Determination of the Aqueous Oxidation Potentials of Aniline and Sixteen of its Derivatives via Ultrafast Cyclic Voltammetry to Model the Photocatalyzed Degradation of Organic Pollutants in Natural Bodies of Water"

Matthew James Rasumussen: "Pyrolysis Oil Aging Reactions: A Mass Spectrometric Investigation of Reactive Components and Reaction Products"

Nathan D. Ricke: "Application of the Landau-Zener Model and Fermi’s Golden Rule to Estimate Triplet Quantum Yield for Organic Molecules"