49th Annual SURC: Southeastern Undergraduate Research Conference
Friday and Saturday, January 27 and 28, 2017
The Alumni Center, University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29201
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Friday, January 27, 2017 |
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| 3:00-7:30 p.m. | Conference Registration | First floor lobby, USC Alumni Center |
| 4:00-6:00 p.m. | USC Campus and Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Tours Sign up for a tour time at the registration desk |
First floor lobby, USC Alumni Center |
| 6:00 p.m. | Welcome & Opening Remarks Hanno zur Loye, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, David W. Robinson Palmetto Professor of Chemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC |
Ballrooms 2&3, USC Alumni Center |
| 6:00-7:30 p.m. | Buffet Dinner | Ballrooms 2&3, USC Alumni Center |
| 7:30-8:30 p.m. | Keynote Address Stephen L. Morgan, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Undergraduate Research in Forensic Analytical Chemistry: Fingerprints, Blood, Fibers, and Dyes |
Ballrooms 2&3, USC Alumni Center |
Saturday, January 28, 2017 |
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| 7:30-8:00 a.m. | Poster Session A Set-up | Ballroom 1, USC Alumni Center |
| 8:00-9:50 a.m. | Oral Presentations Session 1 - Sponsored by AmbioPharm, Inc. Analytical, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, Inorganic Chemistry |
Ballroom 3, USC Alumni Center |
| 8:05-8:20 a.m. | Nicholas Leschinsky, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Characterization of a New P450 OleT Ortholog and its Applications for Biofuel Synthesis |
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| 8:20-8:35 a.m. | Kathleen Riley, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS Transition-Metal Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions of Olefins Using Phints in the Presence of an Ionic Liquid |
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| 8:35-8:50 a.m. | Jonathan Flores, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA Inhibiting Heme Degradation in the Biomolecular Synthesis of PEDOT:PSS |
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| 8:50-9:05 a.m. | Joshua H. Gray, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Comparing Principal Component Regression (PCR) and Multivariate Curve Resolution By Alternating Least Square (MCR-ALS) for Decomposition of Electrochemical Data |
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| 9:05-9:20 a.m. | Casey A. Carpenter, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS Comparison of Dinuclear Bis[Re(Bpy)(CO)3Cl]Anthracene and Fac-Re(Bpy)(CO)3Cl for the Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 |
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| 9:20-9:35 a.m. | Lauren Watts and Paige Heiple, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC The Two-Step Hantzsch Thiazole Synthesis of Sphingosine Kinase Inhibitor II |
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| 9:35-9:50 a.m. | Logan R. Martin, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS Comparison of the Thermodynamics of Formation of 1:1 Complexes Between ATP and Mg with First Row Transition Divalent Metal Ions |
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| 10:00-11:45 a.m. | Poster Session A – (Last Names A-K) Exhibitor/Recruiting Tables Open |
Ballroom 1, USC Alumni Center |
| 12:00-2:00 p.m. | Lunch (students on their own) + Poster Session B Set-up (Ballroom 1, USC Alumni Center) + Exhibitor/Recruiting Tables | Vista Restaurants |
| 2:00-3:45 p.m. | Poster Session B – (Last Names L-Z) Exhibitor/Recruiting Tables Open |
Ballroom 1, USC Alumni Center |
| 3:45-4:15 p.m. | Refreshment Break | Ballrooms 1&2, USC Alumni Center |
| 4:15-5:45 p.m. | Oral Presentations Session 2- Sponsored by Integrated Micro-Chromatography Systems, LLC (IMCS) Environmental, Organic, Materials, Physical Chemistry |
Ballroom 3, USC Alumni Center |
| 4:15-4:30 p.m. | Jessica Rotheiser & Tret Burdette, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Infrared Spectroscopy Detection of Magnetic Tape Degradation |
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| 4:30-4:45 p.m. | Houston Cole, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC Cyclization of Two Distinct Methyl Ketones with DMSO and Ammonium Salts to Produce Heterodisubstituted Pyridines |
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| 4:45-5:00 p.m. | Nathaniel Fletcher, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC Sulfidation of Silver Nanoparticles |
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| 5:00-5:15 p.m. | Rachel West-Lacourrege, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS Rapid Removal of Benzoic Acid and Phthalic Acid from Wastewater Using Magnetized Fast Pyrolysis Biochar from Waste Douglas Fir |
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| 5:15-5:30 p.m. | Peymon Baghernejad, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Detection of Neurotransmitters |
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| 5:30-5:45 p.m. | Jeannette Rodriguez, Clemson University, Clemson, SC Antioxidant Activity of Nanoceria Conjugates |
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| 6:00-7:30 p.m. | Closing Dinner and Awards Ceremony Oral presentations award sponsor: Irina Roof and Family |
Ballrooms 2&3, USC Alumni Center |
End of conference |
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