Senior Theses, 2007-2011
Recent senior theses are listed here by title, student name, faculty advisor. A complete listing of thesis titles is available via the on-line catalog of the Reed College library.
2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011
2007
1. Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Thin Films: An Effort to Create More Robust Colorimetric Sensors, Ashley Bissell (O'Donnell)
2. Characterization of SsmR, a DtxR homolog, Rhoda Brew-Appiah (Glasfeld)
3. Cadmium vs. Manganese: Toward an Understanding of Biologically Relevant Metal-Ligand Coordination Chemistry, Amanda Cort (McDougal)
4. Thin Film Metalloporphyrin Polymers as Colorimetric Sensors for Volatile Organic Compounds, Lyndsey Earl (O'Donnell)
5. Design and Synthesis of a New Dioxyaryl TAML (Tetraamidomacrocyclic ligand), Renee Garfin (Shusterman)
6. Manganese, Glutamate, and the Pursuit of Specificity: Origins of Metal Binding Selectivity in the Manganese Transport Regulator MntR, Kristen Grauer-Gray (Glasfeld)
7. Octahedral Tilting in Layered Perovskites: Using Neutron Diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy to Probe Distortions in the Anionic Framework, Joshua Kurzman (Geselbracht)
8. En-Route to the Formation of a Tropane Ring, Aaron Leventhal (McDougal)
9. Mechanistic Studies of the Gas Phase Multiphoton Dissociation of Chromium Hexacarbonyl: A Curve Fitting Approach to Pressure Dependence, Elliot Naidus (Gerrity)
10. Probing Conformational Changes of Streptococcal Cell Adhesion Regulator (ScaR) Protein: A F-10 NMR Study, Derek Oldridge (Glasfeld)
11. Towards a Synthesis of Potential Transition State Analog Inhibitors of Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase, Emmett Sartor (McClard)
12. A Look at the Structural Basis for Specific Recognition of MntR for DNA, Kayce Spear (Glasfeld)
13. The Cloning and Attempted Purification of the Manganese Binding Domain of ManS, a Histidine Kinase, Chelsea Thornburg (Glasfeld)
14. Resonance Hyper-Raman Spectroscopy: A Method to Corroborate the Identities of Forbidden Electronic Transitions in Chromium Hexacarbonyl, Michael Williams (Gerrity)
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2008
1. The Pre-Steady State Kinetics of Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase: Synthesis and Enzymatic Characterization of 2-Thioorotic Acid, Jade Bryant (McClard)
2. Introduction of Vinyl Halogen Radiolabels, Ryan Cooper (McDougal)
3. Fluorescence Studies of ScaR, Christine Deyo (Glasfeld)
4. Lattice Defects as Lithium Intercalation Sites in V2O5 Ambigels, Thomas Drane (Geselbracht)
5. On the Synthesis of a Symmetric Double pH Switch, Federico Espinosa (McDougal)
6. Towards the Synthesis of a Symmetrical 1,2-Diamine, Jennifer Evans (McDougal)
7. Toward a Cost-Effective Method of Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water, Hassan Ghani (Hicks)
8. Thiolated Alumoxanes as heavy Metal Filtration Media, Elizabeth Johnstonbaugh (Hicks)
9. Toward a Study of Salmonella Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase Binding Stoichiometry, Emily Justusson (McClard)
10. Towards the Synthesis of (Z)-4-Carboxy-1-(4-Iodobut-3-enyl)piperidine 1-Oxide , Reiko Matsuda-Dunn (McDougal)
11. Establishing the Boundaries for Metal Ion Selectivity in the Manganese Transport Regulator MntR, Amanda McGuire (Glasfeld)
12. Site Directed Mutation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae OPRTase Flexible Loop: Potential Application to Structural Studies, Michael Melesse (McClard)
13. DNA Binding and Recognition by MntR, Vito Spadavecchio (Glasfeld)
14. The Discrimination between Calcium and Manganese in MntR, Erin Weber (Glasfeld)
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2009
1. Synthesis of a Tetra Amido Macrocyclic Ligand with Catechol Substitution on the Six-Membered Chelate Ring, Jessica Covey (Shusterman)
2. Application of Numerical Simulation to the Determination of Half-of-Sites Reactivity: A Case Study in Biotin Carboxylase, Lindsay Deis (McClard)
3. The Effect of Inorganic Shell Growth on Exciton Recombination Rates in CdSe Quantum Dots, Daniel Eichelsdoerfer (Geselbracht)
4. The Coordination of Acetic Acid to Oxoxvanadium(V) Triisopropoxide: A Multinuclear NMR Investigation, Joseph Elias (Geselbracht)
5. MRSA, Manganese, and Metalloregulation: Attempted Purification and Characterization of Staphylococccal Iron Regulator repressor (SirR), a Manganese Metalloprotein Native to Staphylococccus epidermidis, Carolyn Elya (Glasfeld)
6. On the Synthesis of a Symmetric Double pH Switch, Federico Espinosa (McDougal)
7. MDR1: An Iron-dependent Transcriptional Repressor from a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon, Kimberly Hartfield (Glasfeld)
8. The SHArK Project: A Combinatorial Search for a Metal Oxide Semiconductor with Which to Split Water and Produce Hydrogen Using Sunlight, Gildevin Jagudajev (Geselbracht)
9. Towards the Synthesis of a Double pH Switch: Synthesizing a Symmetric Ethylene Bridged Camphoric Diamine, Cameron Kellet (McDougal)
10. Probing the Role of Deliberate Imperfection in the Lithium Ion Insertion Behavior of V2O5 Ambigel Films, Alex Perez (Geselbracht)
11. A Study of Salmonella typhimurium Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase Binding Stoichiometry with Respect to Orotidine-5'-Monophosphate, Sarah Stafford (McClard)
12. Portland Aerosol: Characterization by FTIR, Anna Stonestrom (Fry)
13. Development of Satellite Analysis of Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxides and Aerosol, J.D. Tobin (Fry)
14. Toward the Synthesis of a Merged pH-Switch, Melissa Weinrich (McDougal)
15. MntR Mutants and Reporters: Probing the Structural Basis for Metal Ion Selectivity in the Manganese Transcriptional Regulator, Mingrui Zhang (Glasfeld)
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2010
1. Synthesis of 2,5-Dimorpholinoterphthalic Acid and Related Compounds: A Possible Cell Selective Chemotherapeutic Module, Douglas Agnew (McDougal)
2. Toward the Purification of Hyg6 and Hyg7: Investigating the Enzymes Responsible for Methylenedioxy Bridge Formation in Hygromycin A Biosynthesis, Constanc Bailey (Glasfeld)
3. Going Through the Motions: Structure and Dynamics of MntR, Megan Brophy (Glasfeld)
4. The Environmental Abundance of Silver Nanoparticles and the Heterogeneous Reactions of NO2 Thereon, Tara Cass (Fry)
5. Unraveling the Origins of Specificity in MntR, Bonnie Cuthbert (Glasfeld)
6. Locating Forbidden Transition States of Chromium Hexacarbonyl using Resonance Raman Spectroscopy, Stephanie Dillon (Gerrity)
7. Effects of Copper on Hep G2 Cells, Monica Fraenkel (Ralle)
8. An Enlightening Study of the Resonance Raman Spectrum of Molybdenum Hexacarbonyl, Samuel Groveman (Gerrity)
9. Toward a Catechol-Substituted TAML, Ian MacDonald (Shusterman)
10. On the Asymmetric Synthesis of Alkyl Serine Derivatives: Using Dialdehyde Auxiliaries to Induce Stereoselective Alkylation, Ian McCulloch (McDougal)
11. A Design of a Catechol Substituted Tetra-Amido-Macrocyclic Ligand (TAML), Athena Padouvas (Shusterman)
12. Toward the Synthesis of a Dioxolane-Substituted Fe(III)-TAML, Ida Peric (Shusterman)
13. An Investigation into the Manganese Transporters MntH and MntA, Rebecca Phillips (Glasfeld)
14. Synthesis of a pH Switch Based on Aniline, Charlene Walker (McDougal)
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2011
1. Ozonolysis of alpha-Pinene: A Chamber Study, Caleb Arata (Fry)
2. Effect of Copper Exposure on Redox Potential in Mammalian Cells, Arianrhod Conrad-Antoville (Gerrity)
3. Synthesis of N-Sulfonylketenimines: Potential Organic Catalysts for the Ring-Closing Olefin Metathesis Reaction, Mariah Hanley (Boisvert)
4. A Synthetic Route Towards a Putative Transition State Analog for Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase using an Imino Sugar Derivative and a Pseudo-Orotate Nucleobase, Stephanie Hoang (McClard)
5. Examining the Reactivity of Organoantimony Amidation Catalysts, Sarah Jablonski (Boisvert)
6. Regulation of Insulin Receptor Alternative Splicing by Fox-1, Alexander Johnson (Cass)
7. Pressure Studies of Enhanced Cr* Emission in the Argon-Mediated Multiphoton Dissociation of Cr(CO)6, Alice Newton (Gerrity)
8. Some Concrete Chemistry: The Effect of Sound Walls on Benzene Concentration, Claire Remington (Fry)
9. Tertiary Arsine Oxides as Catalysts for Amidation, Lauren Sanders (Boisvert)
10. Towards the Synthesis of a Second Generation Transition State Analogue of OPRTase, Harry Traulsen (McClard)
11. Binding Dynamics of the Alternative Splicing Regulator Muscleblind-like 1 (MBNL1), Grant Trenary (Cass)
12. The Irreducible Tensor Method and Dipole-Forbidden Resonance Raman Scattering, Alexander von Diezmann (Gerrity)
13. Films from Vanadium(V) Oxide Ambigels: Spectroelectrochemistry of Lithium Insertion, Stephen von Kugelgen (Geselbracht)
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