Undergraduates Programming

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
41	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
72	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?
88	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
97	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