Wooster Chemistry Annual Report 2001-2002

SUMMER 2002 RESEARCH PROJECTS

Yan Min Aung ('03)
Dr. Wingfield Glassey
Volunteer
Development of an MO picture to describe oxygen chemisorption of transition metal surfaces.

Chickio (Charmaine Chan ('04)
Dr. Paul L. Edmiston
Funded by the Sophomore Research Program and the National Science Foundation
The structure and stability on creatine kinase dimer interface mutants using extrinsic and intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy.

Caroline Davis ('02)
Dr. Paul L. Edmiston
Funded by the National Science Foundation
The characterization of site-directed mutants of creatine kinase disrupting the interactions at the dimer interface.

Stacey Dean ('05)
Dr. Paul L. Edmiston
Funded by the Sophomore Research Program
Characterization of 11 solvatochromic dyes which may be useful in developing chemical sensors for explosives

Jennifer Dlwgosh ('03)
Dr. Dean Fraga (Biology)
Funded by the National Science Foundation
Testing of clones for the production and secretion of creatine kinase.

James Ellinger ('04)
Dr. Mark Snider
Funded by the Sophomore Research Program and the National Science Foundation
Utilization of recombinant DNA techniques to clone arginine kinase genes from a varity of organisms for subsequent comparative biochemical analyses of the purified recombinant enzymes.

Dena Freeman ('04)
Dr. Theodore Williams, Emeritus
Funded by Dreyfus
The study of changes in the water in the cornea during preservation.

Douglas Hanke ('04)
Drs. Judith Amburgey-Peters and Ellen Burns
Funded by the Sophomore Research Program and Mellon Grant
Curricular development of Organic Chemistry 211/212.

Michael Jourden ('03)
Dr. Mark Snider
Funded by the National Science Foundation
Measuring the temperature dependence of the catalytic activity of rabbit muscle creatine kinase mutants using the pH stat method.

Melisa Kundracik ('05)
Dr. Mark Snider
Funded by the Sophomore Research Program and the National Science Foundation
Purification of mutant forms of recombinant rabbit muscle creatine kinase.

Julie Lloyd ('03)
Dr. Paul Edmiston
Funded by Dreyfus
Development of molecularly imprinted sol-gel materials for the detection of fluorene.

Virginia Miraldi ('03)
Dr. Theodore Williams, Emeritus
Funded by Dreyfus
The use of thermal techniques to study the changes in the water in the cornea during preservation.

Michael Mrozik ('04)
Dr. Wingfield Glassey
Funded by the Sophomore Research Program
The parametrization of semi-empircal Hamiltonians for the optimization of organic and inorganic molecular structures.

Donald (Alex) Prochazka ('04)
Dr. Ellen Burns
Funded by the Sophomore Research Program and VPAA Start-Up Funds
Synthesizing ß-amino acids from aziridine starting materials.

William Schumacher ('03)
Dr. Paul Edmiston
Funded by Dreyfus
Development of sol-gel sensors to measure humidity, ammonia, and the presence of hydrocarbon gases.

Benjamin Swarts ('04)
Drs. Judith Amburgey-Peters and Ellen Burns
Funded by the Sophomore Research Program and Research Corporation
The synthesis of cyclohexyl CBZ-L-Ser-Bzl phosphodiester.