Amherst College

Professor Erika Taylor, Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Studies. Seminar Title: "Two Stops on the Path for Converting Lignin into Biofuels." Co-Sponsored with the Biochemistry/Biophysics Program.

Samuel Hendel; "Investigating Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of BODIPY Dyad Series." Advisor: Professor Elizabeth Young

Shamira Shariffudin; "Palladium Catalyzed Synthesis of Aryl Sulfonyl Fluorides." Advisor: Professor Nicholas Ball

Kathryn Sundheim; "Validation of a Novel Hydrogen Exchange Mass Spectrometry Approach to Map Protein Folding Landscapes." Advisor: Professor Sheila Jaswal

Nazir D. Khan, "Structure Determination of the Complex Formed between Ethyne and (Z)-1-chloro-2-fluoroethene." Advisor: Professor Helen Leung.

Gregory Knowlton, "Optimization of Small Molecule Inhibitor Sensitization in PTP1B's WPD Loop." Advisor: Professor Anthony Bishop.

Katharine Winchell, "Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Clay Nanocomposites." Advisor: Professor Sandra Burkett.

Gillian Lupinski; "Addressing the Problematic θ Coordinate in DVR." Advisor: Professor Mark Marshall.

Hyunsun Roh; "Allosteric activation of engineered Src homology-2-domain-containing tyrosine phosphatase (Shp2) with a biarsenical molecule F1ASH." Advisor: Professor Anthony Bishop.

Jimmy Yu; "Discrete Variable Representation (DVR) as an Alternative to the Linear Variational Method." Advisor: Professor Mark Marshall.

John F. Stockman, "Investigating the Palladium Catalyzed Synthesis of Sulfonamides." Advisor: Professor Nicholas Ball

Claire Drolen, "Ferrocenyl Derivatives as Model Systems for the Investigation of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer." Advisor: Professor Elizabeth Young

Seminar Title: "Optimization of protein bioconjugation reactions using combinatorial peptide libraries"

Seminar Title: "Unlocking the Potential of Heterocycle-Based Acyl Donors"

Seminar Title: "Capturing Chemical Reactions in Molecular Crystals"

Seminar Title: "Self-Assembling Organic Nanostructures."

Professor Gerald Meyer, Professor of Chemistry. Seminar Title: "Molecular Electron Transfers in Efficient Solar Cells."