Undergraduate-specific programming is scheduled for Sunday, October 2 & Monday, October 3.
You are invited to participate in the entire Undergraduate Program all day Sunday and Monday. Please see the Undergraduate Program (QR code below) for times and locations for all of our events.

- Sunday, October 2
- 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm: Grad School Panel Highland G
- 2:30 pm -4:00 pm: Career Panel Highland G
- 5:00 pm- 8:00 pm Grad School Fair Expo Hall (RRCC)
- 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Undergraduate Poster Session. Expo Hall (RRCC) odd poster numbers 6-7 and even poster numbers 7-8 (see table below).
- Monday, October 3
- 8:30 am – 11:45 am – Undergraduate Oral Session Susan B. Anthony Room Hyatt
- All day – ACS career consultant 1-on-1 mock interviews, resume review, job consultations
Odd poster numbers present 6-7 pm, Even poster numbers present 7-8 pm
Poster # | Presenter (s) | Poster Title |
1 | Reatha von Holtz | Mass spectrometric based approach for Lysosomal Storage Diseases diagnostic in newborns |
2 | Lydia Lagree | A systematic way to screen FDA approved cancer medications for repurpose potential to treat Alzheimer’s Disease |
3 | Ian Hanley | Alcohol dehydrogenation by [IrCl2Cp*]2 using quinone acceptors |
4 | Tyler Bechard | A third-generation biosensor involving the synergistic effect of Ti3C2Tx Mxenes and superoxide dismutase for the detection of superoxide anion |
5 | McKenna Gibson | An investigation into Biginelli-like Multicomponent Reactions |
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7 | Sarah Ann Crane | Aquatic photochemistry of the livestock feed additive Ractopamine |
8 | Lyra Sauer | Atmospheric chemistry of urea: A computational study of important gas-phase reactions |
9 | Blake Eby | Isaiah Miller | Cancer drug, regorafenib (STIVARGA1), inhibits amyloid-beta 42 aggregation in-vitro and has drug repurpose potential for treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease |
10 | Stephonda G Lewis | Chemoselective oxidation of alcohols in the presence of amines by oxoammonium salts |
11 | Elena Yangyo Chen | Comparing solvothermal and mechanochemical synthesis of metal organic frameworks |
12 | Vivian Ding | Controlling singlet fission dynamics in functionalized pentacenes through thin film processing |
13 | Khushi Gandhi | Computational study in the development of PET ligands as allosteric modulators for mGluR7 |
14 | Xijue Wu | Design for Novel Pyridone Ligands for Nickel Catalysts |
15 | Abigail Young | Skye C. Chaapel | Development of a Green Oxidation Method for Alcohols |
16 | Marissa Ashley Smith | Development of methods for determining the enantioselectivity of lactic acid produced from glucose |
17 | Gabriel Pierce | Development of Electrochemistry Experiment for General Chemistry |
18 | Minh Hoang Le | Discovery of a more general catalyst for a broader scope of solvent-free ionothermal cyclotrimerizations of methyl ketones and nitriles |
19 | Mary Upenieks | Do Curcumin Derivatives Affect Tubulin Polymerization in Cancer Cells? An Investigation into Their Mechanism of Action |
20 | Xiaoyu Hu | Effect of transition metal cation on the stability and permeability of graphene oxides: Iron(Fe) and Copper(Cu) |
21 | Lucia Speranza | Effects of crude Bark Extracts and isolated Components From White Birch and American Sycamore Trees on D. melanogaster Development and Resistance to Oxidative Stress |
22 | Wanqing Yu | Electrocatalytic defluorination of perfluorooctanoic acid in aqueous electrolyte assisted by ultraviolet radiation |
23 | Megan R Forney | Electrooxidation of toluene by laser-made nanocatalysts to form less oxidized oxygenates |
24 | Anthony Lara | Elucidation of perylene diimide photocatalytic mechanism using time-resolved spectroscopy |
25 | Shiva Dahagam | Enzyme-templated charge transfer complex enables the regioselective alkylation of heterocycles |
26 | Emma Ryan | Evidence that regorafenib binds amyloid-beta 42 (Aβ42) within the putative Zn2+ binding domain |
27 | Margaret C Hintz | Emily M Fitzpatrick | Exploring the synthesis of maleanilic acids and maleimides in bioderived, biodegradeable solvents |
28 | Nothando Khumalo | Fast and Accurate Chemistry Solutions: NWChemEx |
29 | Anna Meglan | Identification of Plasmodium falciparum Autophagy-related Protein 8 (PfAtg8) Inhibitors via Two Screening Methods |
30 | Sarah Zhang | Pasa Suksmith | Evolutionary trajectory of the ribonucleotide reductase catalytic subunit |
31 | Aidan Miller | Identifying minimum inhibitory concentrations of clinically relevant antibiotics for a pathogenic strain of E. coli |
32 | James Hasselbeck | Interpreting the effect of relevant mutations on γB Crystallin structure and dynamics |
33 | Dave Tirtariyadi | Investigation of metal-free synthesis approaches to organic electrode materials for battery applications |
34 | Stephanie Lee | Investigation of the Correlation Between Total Trihalomethanes Levels and Socioeconomic Factors in the NY State |
35 | Katherine Merkel | Investigation of the Electronic Structure of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes |
36 | Rachel Hirschkind | Kia Haering | Veronica Szygalowicz | Investigation of Zinc Metal Ion Effect on Amyloid Beta Protein Structure |
37 | Andrea Koid | Medicinal Chemistry Optimization of Small Molecule Inhibitors for Chagas Disease |
38 | Brooke Mitchell | Nickel-Catalyzed Decarbonylative Cross-Coupling Reactions with N-Phenylphthalimides |
39 | Isabella Pelkey | Optimization of the in-gel sample preparation for mass spectrometry-based proteomics |
40 | Martina Videva | Optimizing Purification Techniques of Escherichia coli Outer Membrane Vesicles |
Aaditi Chopade | Withdrawn. Oxidation-responsive modified cellulose-based materials | |
42 | Nate Randall | Physiochemical properties of polyethylene glycol 200 as a solvent |
43 | Darren Langer | Poly(isobutyl vinyl ether) upcycling via photooxidative degradation |
44 | Derek Emrich | Poly(A) tailed mRNA Enrichment Using Poly(LNA-A) – Poly(rA) Duplexes |
45 | Miray Huriye Apak | Polyethylene glycol (PEG200) and pentaethylene glycol in confinement |
46 | John Carlson | Proteomic Analysis of Human Breast Milk using Mass Spectrometry to Reveal Protein Biomarkers for Early Breast Cancer Detection |
47 | Victoria Sanberg | Probing visual literacy with 2D and 3D representations of cell biology |
48 | Aden Alemayhu | Purification of full-length NEMO and structural impacts of conflicting dimerization sites |
49 | Dylan Michael Ines | Stimuli-responsive surface coatings for molecular imaging with T2 MRI contrast agents |
50 | Aidan Spengler | Structural and solution-state stability and reactivity studies of a series of biomimetic manganese(II) complex with a pyridine-containing, tripodal ligands |
51 | Nathan Tang | Studies toward the convergent total synthesis of phlegmadines B and C via a strategic carbonyl transposition |
52 | Teona Taseska | Sustainable catalytic successor technologies to mitigate the challenges posed by the scale of global human needs |
53 | Isabelle Sullivan | Proteomics Analysis of Sera from an Asian American woman with Triple Negative Breast Cancer and a Matched Control: A Case Study Investigation for Biomarker Discovery |
54 | Logan Seymour | Proteomics Investigation of Human Sera from African American Donors with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma Breast Cancer and Matched Controls |
55 | Samantha L. Claussen | Synthesis and characterization of biomimetic manganese(II) complexes with aza-crown ether macrocyclic ligands containing a pyridylmethyl or quinolylmethyl substituents |
56 | Mathew Graci | Synthesis and magnetic properties of nitrogen coordinated 2-hydroxypyridine copper(II) complexes |
57 | Mary Elizabeth Kane | Molly Roesch | Synthesis of bismuth nanoparticles for applications in oncology |
58 | Sabrina Rose | Synthesis of boron based small molecules as therapeutic agents |
59 | Halle Marvich | Synthesis of nitroalkane substrates for the development of an electro-oxidative route to quaternary α-amino acids |
60 | Hunter Heineman | Synthesis of novel cross-membrane difluorometric probes |
61 | ALEXANDRA Montgomery WOODRUFF | Synthesis of pregnene alkaloid analogs from Pachysandra terminalis extract |
62 | Benjamin Mukda | Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Properties of Copper (II) “Adamantoid” Clusters |
63 | Konstantinos V Vlasakakis | Synthetic efforts towards benzoyltyramine natural products |
64 | Catherine Hagearty-Mattern | Ultrasound-induced cyclization of fluorescent peptides for molecular imaging of fibrin |
65 | Nathaniel Paddock | Examining physicochemical properties of polyethylene glycol using molecular dynamics simulations: Effects of forcefield modification |
66 | Rowan Nothnagle | Visible light Induced Decomposition of Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water |
67 | Ben Brekke | Ruthenium complexes and their applications towards Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) |
68 | Yasmeen Cartwright | Probing Pal’s in Vivo Interactions using Site Directed-Mutagenesis |
69 | Mary Elizabeth Kane | Synthesis, Stability, and Oncological Application of Bismuth Nanoparticles |
70 | Emma Kelly | Cortical contributions to value-based decisions in the two-armed bandit task |
71 | Aaron Brown | Monitoring the effect of Bak and Bax on oxidative stress in A549 cells in the presence of Trichostatin A |
Morten Lee | Chemotherapeutic nanoscale coordination polymers (NCPs) for active transport to tumors | |
73 | Arden Hatch | Determining pharmaceutical binding with Humic acid by High Performance Affinity Chromatography |
74 | Jiaming Li | Microplastic “Bathtub Ring” Effect on Beach |
75 | Julia Niehoff | Microbial Nutrients and Metabolomics in Marine Mesocosm Experiment |
76 | Margot Whitmore | Heat Shock Protein Induction in Female Drosophila melanogaster as a Model System of Glial Tauopathy |
77 | Aidan Kropiwnicki | Palladium and urea ligand mediated heteroannulation of bromophenols and 1,4-dienes |
78 | Molly Corr | Solvent mixtures for improved energy density of heterometal charge carriers in non-aqueous redox flow batteries |
79 | Yichen Qiu | Topological and magnetic quantum phase transitions in twisted bilayer MoTe2 |
80 | Beatrice Pence | Toward structure-function relationships in organic exciton-polariton condensates |
81 | Xander Michaels | Targeting Telomeric and c-MYC G4 DNA as an Anticancer Approach |
82 | Matthew Chudy, Mobah Islam, Emily Rennells | Bone fracture repair: Testing porous properties of calcium phosphate bioactive cement and how it compares to pig bone |
83 | Muhammad Moueed Haider Mirza | Antibacterial activity of sulfur-doped carbon/g-C3N4 composite under dark and visible light |
84 | Nguyen Duc Minh | Surface Tension measurement of conductive ink for printed sensor improvement |
85 | Paige King | Engineering of Photoactive Hydrogen-bonded Co-crystals |
86 | Caitlyn I. Cruz | Synthesis of bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene lanthanum nitrosyl complexes |
87 | Jeremy Swartz | How Does the Solvent Affect Hydrogenation? |
Morgan Tanguay | Development of a Novel Immunoassay for Multiplex Detection of Heat Shock Proteins using xMap Technology (Withdrawn) | |
89 | Ryan Pinard | Towards exciton-polaritons in tunable nanofluidic microcavities |
90 | Gloria Davidova | Understanding the effect of vibronic interactions in organic molecules for polaritons |
91 | Oreb Lederberg | Intramolecular tetrazine-acryloyl cycloaddition: chemistry and applications |
92 | Noah Holt*, Kirk Rollan*, Julian Laugand* | Water quality of roadside springs in Western and West Central Pennsylvania |
93 | Katelyn Olsson | Using Al3+ to Improve the Aqueous Stability of Graphene Oxide Membranes |
94 | Briana C. Arreaga | Synthesis and structural characterization of imidazole precursors for backbone-substituted bidentate N-heterocyclic carbene ligands |
95 | Brittany Cripps | Selective indoline C-H functionalization through biocatalytic carbene transfer and substrate engineering |
96 | Denis Toussaint | Synthesis of a series of first-generation organosilicate systems |
Josh Edelbach | Fluorescence Quenching by Gold Nanoparticles in a Model Bio-Sensing System (withdrawn) | |
98 | Grace E. Crowe | The influence of osmolytes and perchlorate on the folding of Z-nucleic acid helices |
99 | Su Wint War* | Study of the solubility and synthesis of hypervalent iodine reagents with differing solubility |
100 | Erin M. Stockdale | : Synthesis and characterization of pyridine dipyrrolide actinide complexes |
101 | Ethan B. Chavarin | Synthesis and Structural Characterization of a Bidentate N-heterocyclic Carbene Nickel Complex: (MesNHC2Xy)Ni(COD) |
102 | William Tupa | Ab initio modeling of superconducting materials by exploring excited electronic configurations |
103 | Kashane Miller | Creating a Turbidity Meter for Classroom analysis of Nucleation Kinetics |
104 | Chau Tran Minh | Can we control nanoparticle packing in peptoid nanosheet by changing the concentration of the gold nanoparticles? |
105 | Matthew Auerbach | Optimizations in the incorporation of ANAP, a fluorescent amino acid, to observe β-tubulin |
106 | Ethan Locke | Selective Detection and Removal of PFOS using Redox Sorbents |
107 | Luke Kilby | Fabrication and Testing of Reduced Graphene Oxide Micro Supercapacitor: An Experimental Study |
108 | L. James Macisco | Characterization of phenols in wine using multidimensional fluorescence spectroscopy with chemometrics |
109 | Antonia Gomes | Composition of volatile compounds from rare and endangered Illicium ekmanii, a species endemic to Hispaniola |
110 | Andrea Miramontes Serrano | Comparative Analysis of Cornell University’s Building Power Demand |
111 | Zirong Chen | Characterization of PCBP2 lysine fatty acylation as a potential HDAC11 substrate |
112 | Spencer Hatfield | Effects of high valence metal cations on the properties of graphene oxide |
113 | Daniela Santacruz | CEM Microwave-assisted Synthesis of Carbocyclic Derivatives of Curcumin. |
114 | Christian Leonardo | Kinetics of a Liquid Phase Isobutyric Acid Enolization with monoclinic ZrO2 and anatase TiO2 Catalysts |