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\"2014<\/a>When Heir Jordan, a senior chemistry major, found out that the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS) fell on UTC\u2019s fall break, he wasn\u2019t sure he wanted to go, but after seeing presentations from undergraduates to professionals and meeting Nobel Prize winner Sir Harold Kroto, he\u2019s glad that he did.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, I thought I wasn\u2019t sure if I could do it. Then I saw that the date fell on fall break, so I didn\u2019t want to go, but I thought I should go and present the work at the conference. I thought maybe I could go get in and get out, but once I got there and got to talking and going to presentations, I was glad I was there. There were a lot of big chemical companies, graduate schools, pharmacy schools, which I\u2019m interested in. I\u2019m glad I went. It was a good experience and I made a lot of connections,\u201d said Jordan.<\/p>\n

UTC takes 10-12 students to the annual SERMACS conference. This year\u2019s conference was in Nashville from October 16 \u2013 19. Students had the opportunity to attend talks from fellow undergraduates, graduate students, and professors as well as give their own talks, either presentations or poster presentations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey got to listen to a variety of research talks about what kinds of things are currently going on. There was also a graduate school fair on Sunday, and there were schools from across the country and they were able to talk to all those representatives about what\u2019s going on at those schools. That was really exciting,\u201d said Dr. Gretchen Potts, who also attended and presented at the conference.<\/p>\n

\"chemistry-2014-sermacs-conference-03\"<\/a>The students that went to SERMACS all participated in the Department of Chemistry\u2019s 10-week summer research program. As a part of the program, students complete 10 weeks of research, working 40 hours each week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a job. It is intense research immersion, where they are not only working on a project, they are working with other students. They give talks about their research, what they\u2019ve done and what they plan to do,\u201d said Potts. \u201cA lot of the research our students are doing is graduate level research, and a lot of these students get their names published on papers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The program supports participants when they present their research at regional and national conferences with the Grote endowment in the Department of Chemistry as well as the Provost Student Research awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, to watch a student talk to someone they\u2019ve never met before about their research is a great experience. I don’t interrupt or stand right there with them. They do it on their own,\u201d said Potts. \u201cWe think it\u2019s really significant and important for these students to not only be able to participate in the research, but also to communicate it, to present that. If you can present research, then you truly understand it. There\u2019s a difference between being in the lab and doing research based on the instructions you\u2019re given, and doing the research and really being able to explain it to someone else, particularly a layperson who isn\u2019t a chemist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the summer, I knew what we were doing, but I don\u2019t think I saw the bigger picture. Then, after it was over, I was really able to zoom out and make connections. At the conference, I was explaining it to people and realizing that this was really some neat stuff, which I don\u2019t think you always realize until after the fact,\u201d said Jordan.<\/p>\n

\"chemistry-2014-sermacs-conference-01\"<\/a>Jordan\u2019s research allowed him to relate to Kroto\u2019s research, which won him the Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe researched buckminsterfullerene, or carbon buckyballs, which is a carbon molecule made up of sixty carbon atoms arranged in the shape of a soccer ball. When he did that, it branched open different allotropes of carbonite, which relates to carbon nanotubes and the research I did. It\u2019s kind of hand in hand. He was explaining his work and I was right there with him. Maybe if I can master my work, someday I\u2019ll be up there just like him,\u201d said Jordan.\u00a0 \u201cI encourage other people to do research, it was a good experience and a chance to work with some great people. I\u2019m interested in pharmacy, but the research has kind of changed my view of what I may want to do with my life, so maybe I\u2019d want to research pharmaceutical drugs or something like that instead of working in a pharmacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Undergraduate Presentations:<\/p>\n

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Veronica B. Hubble<\/p>\n

E-cigarette filling solutions: HPLC optimization and analysis of tobacco alkaloids<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Macon B. Acuff<\/p>\n

How the journey becomes the destination for automated spectrophotometric titrations<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Caitlin Quinn<\/p>\n

Mass loss and morphological changes as a function of time of a nanofiber mesh applicable to limb salvage<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Patrick O’Brien<\/p>\n

Solid phase extraction method for determining antibiotic release rate from a nanofiber-based biodegradable mesh<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hendrik J Greve<\/p>\n

Studies of lysozyme modifications by substituted benzoquinones<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Michelle Smith<\/p>\n

Ribonuclease A modifications induced by 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone and 1,2-naphthoquinone<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Anna G Ioannidis<\/p>\n

A correlation of divalent metals and tryptophan within prokaryotic and eukaryotic metabolism<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Kristina R. Henson<\/p>\n

Binding interactions of ibuprofen with human serum albumin<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Trevor P Latendresse<\/p>\n

Synthesis and characterization of cyclopentadienyl- and pentamethylcyclopentadienyl-Co(III) mixed sandwich compounds containing 1,4,7-trithiacyclononane (9S3) or 1,4,7-triazacyclononane (9N3)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Taylor Hayden<\/p>\n

Catalytic transfer hydrogenation of ketoximes with Raney nickel and 2-propanol as a hydrogen donor<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Patrick Carey<\/p>\n

Synthesis, characterization, and analysis of novel dienes and cyclic compounds<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Heir L Jordan<\/p>\n

Interactions and binding energies in carbon nanotube bundles<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dylan M Bryant<\/p>\n

Theoretical studies of hydrogen abstraction from hydrofluoropropanes by oxygen atom<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ashley D Riner<\/p>\n

Synthesis, characterization and reactivity of ruthenium(II) complexes supported by electron-rich arene ligands for C-H bond activation and catalysis<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Michael Orick<\/p>\n

Crystal structure of (E)-4-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)but-2-en-ol<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jeffrey W McDonald<\/p>\n

Computational discovery and synthesis of novel fluorogenic substrate(s) for sphingosine kinase 1: An approach to high-throughput assay development<\/p>\n

(Research done at University of Memphis with Dr. Daniel Baker through NSF-REU program)<\/p>\n

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Faculty Presentations<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dr. Manuel F Santiago<\/p>\n

Detection of defensive alkaloid compounds from predatory ladybird beetles<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dr. John P. Lee<\/p>\n

Heteroleptic palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes containing a crown thioether and either 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane or trimethylphosphine<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dr. Han Jung Park<\/p>\n

Generation of cavitation luminescence by laser-induced exothermic chemical reaction<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dr. Gretchen E. Potts<\/p>\n

Flipping the lab: Preparing instrumental lab students for the workplace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heir Jordan was not sure he wanted to attend an American Chemical Society meeting during fall break, but after meeting a Nobel Prize winner, he\u2019s glad he did.<\/p>\n

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