The Senior Program

All senior chemistry students work collaboratively with faculty members on research projects as part of the Senior Program. This intensive two-semester project combines original scientific research with reading and understanding the scientific literature. It culminates in a Senior Thesis that is defended in a public presentation to departmental faculty and student chemistry majors.

Recent projects in chemistry include:

• Brush Polymers to Combat Antibiotic Resistance
• Uniform, Nanostructured Copper Electrodes for CO2 Reduction
• Toward the Synthesis of Peptidomimetics Related to AFP Useful Against Breast Cancer
• Metal-Organic Framework Synthesis for TcO4- Extraction
• Synthesis & Characterization of Y2O3:Tb3+ Core Shell Nanoparticles
• Rare Earth Nanophosphor and Semiconductor Nanoparticle Sol-Gel Incorporation and Analysis
• The Investigation of Alkenes and Alkyl Halides in a Nickel-Catalyzed Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reaction
• Nickel Catalyzed Conjugate Additions of Boronic Acids to Alkenes
• Fabrication of Silver Dendrites for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
• Developing Methodology in Alkaloid Synthesis
• Competitive Ring Opening of a Series of 2,3-Diaryl-substituted Cyclopropylcarbinyl Radicals
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