[Top Left] Chemistry major Abigail Praklet has been working with analytical chemist Dr. Muna for several years and will graduate this semester. On April 11, she presented her final research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) on the campus of Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. Her project was the development of a Sensitive Stripping Voltammetric Method for Detecting Lead in Water and Soil. Praklet’s research was funded by a SMART Summer Research Grant and IUSB work study funds.
[Top Right] Pierre Emmanuel N’Guetta gave an oral presentation as a member at the 134th Indiana Academy of Science Annual Meeting on March 30 in downtown Indianapolis. Although he is a biology major, N’Guetta’s research Engineering a Biosensor for the Herbicide Glyphosate was conducted over several semesters in Dr. Rizk’s biochemistry laboratory. N’Guetta remarks that giving presentations helped develop “confidence in myself as a scientist and I was also able to showcase the great education I received here at IU South Bend. Research is definitely my passion and IUSB really allowed me to discover it.”
[Bottom Left] Hunter Richman, another chemistry major, presented a poster at Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in Washington, D.C. in late February. His poster Understanding the Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Post-synthetic Ligand Exchange in Cu(II) Metal-organic Cages described the research he conducted last summer at the University of Delaware. Richman enjoyed this opportunity to present his worked and he learned a lot from attending other poster sessions and several lectures from scientists and inventors.
[Bottom Right] Finally there was a team poster presentation last Friday at our annual Undergraduate Research Conference from the students of the fall 2019 CHEM-C 486 Biological Chemistry Laboratory class: Expression and Purification of Adenosine Deaminase and Mutants Associated with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency. The work was done over the course of the semester by Ahmad Alsahfi, Sayvon Esper, Winnie Ihano, Anna McBeth (pictured left), Hunter Richman, and Caitlin Schulz (pictured right),
