Each year Widener University sets aside a Friday in the Spring semester when all classes are canceled so that students can participate in Student Projects Day. All students who have been involved in research give presentations.
Students in chemistry are giving the following presentations for Student Projects Day 2008:
- “Sulfite Analysis of Wines Using Ion Chromatography”: Melissa McDonald (Dr. Shirley Fisher-Drowos)
- “Large-scale Production of Peptides for Biotechnology”: Jennifer Nugent, Monica Beistline, Caitlin Feeser, and Jonathon Hurst (Drs. Shirley Fischer-Drowos, Alexis Nagengast, and Thomas Twardowski)
- “Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water”: Christopher J. Morrison, Andrew Miller, Charles Corey, Peter Fischer, and Iram Husain (Drs. Shirley Fischer-Drowos, David H. Chen, and Gennaro J. Maffia)
- “The Biocompatibility of a Novel Nanoporous Alumina Based Hemodialysis Membrane”: Mark Schneider (Drs. Loyd Bastin and Robert Morris) - *Senior Thesis in Chemistry
“Purification and Isolation of Parvalbumin Isoforms From Fish”: Steven Youssef and Mohit Sirohi (Drs. Loyd Bastin and David Coughlin) - “Green Chemistry and the Saga of 1,2-dibromo-1-phenylpropane”: Kaitlyn Gerhart (Dr. Loyd Bastin)
- “Synthesis of Potential Inhibitors of Calcium Sulfate Crystals”: Karen Voelker (Dr. Loyd Bastin)