2010 Senior Thesis

  • 2010 Senior Thesis presenters: (Back row) Corrie Barnowsky, Dennis Luke, Robert Payne, Mohamed Traore, Lucas Johnstone, Josh Hary, Adam Schanen, Anna Steinhoff (Front row) Laura Koopmeiners, Sisay Girmay, Tong Xiong, Andres Matsuura, Shannon Peterson, Kristin Buzzelli, Rajan Thapa, Ann Marsolek (Not pictured) Jyotindra Acharya, Russel Kerfeld, Jay Terry
  • Adam Schanen: Investigation in Approximation Methods, Potential Energy Surfaces in Quantum Mechanical Calculations of O+OH and N+02 Chemical Reactions
  • Andrew Matsuura: Fluorescence and Lifetime Characterization of Rubrene
  • Anna Steinhoff: Synthesis of Novel Acyclic Goniothalamin Analogues
  • Ann Marsolek: The Use of Different Types of Dye Terminators in DNA Sequencing: A Literature Search
  • Corrie Barnowsky: Investigation of the Aggregation of Cholestrol and Effect of Anticoagulants & Soy Lecithin using Viscosity Measurements
  • Dennis Luke: Anticancer Activities of RuCDTA and TiCDTA and their Interactions with DNA
  • Jay Terry: Natural Product Synthesis for the Undergraduate Laboratory
  • Josh Hary: Cholesterol Aggregation and Morphology: An Investigation of Anticoagulant Effect using Scanning Electron Microscopy
  • Jyotindra Acharya: Planarians as Models to Understand Epilepsy
  • Kristin Buzzelli: Analysis and Fluorescence Characterization of Turbine Oils
  • Laura Koopmeiners: Structure and Function of HMG-CoA Reductase with Naturally Derived Statin Drugs
  • Lucas Johnstone: Bulk Charge Carrier Mobility in Tetracene Derivatives at Low Temperatures
  • Mohamed Traore: Fermentation of Biomass Pretreated with Sulfuric Acid and Bleach via Clostridium Phytofermentans
  • Rajan Thapa: Study of the Effect of Galantamine and Riluzole on Beta-Amyloid (l-42) Aggregates using Fluorescence and Atomic Force Microscopy
  • Robert Payne: Activation of NLRP3 Inflammasome by Titanium Dioxide Nanowires
  • Russel Kerfeld: A Literary Review of the Regulation of Doxorubicin by ATP-Binding Cassette B1
  • Shannon Peterson: A Literature Review of Bisphenols: Endocrine Mimicking Properties and Mechanism of Action
  • Sissay Girmay: Synthesis, Characterization and DNA Iteraction Studies of Titanium-Flavonoid Complexes using Viscometry
  • Tong Xiong: Nanotixicity of Nanoparticle in Iron Oxide