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Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate research is an intergral part of a student's experience in Chemistry and Biochemistry at Stetson. Students have available to them a wide array of state-of-the-art chemical instrumentation, synthetic and computational laboratory facilities, and expert faculty to assist them with their research projects. Resources include a brand new 400 MHz JEOL NMR spectrometer (bought with funds from the National Science Foundation and the Rinker Foundation) and completely updated lab facilities (also funded by the National Science Foundation). 

For information on applying for undergraduate research funding, be sure to visit our SURE (Stetson Undergradutae Research Experience) Grant site. And for information regarding presenting your undergradutate research at the annual Stetson University Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts Symposium (SURCAS), you will want to check out this site.

Student Undergraduate Research Laboratories in Sage Hall

Many of our students present their research with faculty members at regional and national meeting, such as the meetings of the American Chemical Society. Below are some recent students who have presented their research:

Becky Levine and Dr. Grubbs at the 2011 national ACS meeting in Anaheim, CA.

Jen Chou Wang at the 2011 national ACS meeting in Anaheim, CA. 

Jacob Geri at the 2011 national ACS meeting in Anaheim, CA.

Some recent undergraduate publications (Stetson students are underlined):

• Jacob B. Geri, Naomi C. Pernicone, and John T. York,  "Comparing the Impact of Different Supporting Ligands on Copper(I)-Ethylene Interactions." Polyhedron (Special 100th Anniversary of Alfred Werner Nobel Prize Edition), 2012 (In Press)

• Naomi C. Pernicone, Jacob. B. Geri, and John. T. York, "Examining the Impact of Ancillary Ligand Basicity on Copper(I)-Ethylene Binding Interactions: A DFT Study."Theoretical Chemistry Accounts 2012, 131, 1105.

• Naomi C. Pernicone, Jacob B. Geri, and John T. York, "Using a Combination of Experimental and Computational Methods to Explore the Impact of Metal Identity and Ligand Field Strength on the Electronic Structure of Metal Ions". Journal of Chemical Education 2011, 88, 1323.

• Ashley L. Morris and John T. York, "Quantifying the Electron Donating Strength of Phosphine Ligands". Journal of Chemical Education 2009, 86, 1408-1411.

• Megan E. Lewis, Rebecca M. Levine, John T. York, W. Tandy Grubbs, "A Quick and Accurate Oxygen Based Pressure Sensor Assay for Measurement of Catalase Activity," Journal of Chemical Education 2009, 86, 1227.

• William R. Furlong, Michael R. Quackenbush, and Ramee Indralingam, "What is that Colorless Solution? A Qualitative Analysis Laboratory Experiment", Journal of Chemical education 2009.

• Kevin M. Maloney, Emmanuel M. Quiazon, and Ramee Indralingam, "Measurement of Iron in Egg Yolk: An Instrumental Analysis Experiment using Biochemical Principles", Journal of Chemical Education, 2008, 85, 399.

• Sarah E. Caudill and W. Tandy Grubbs, "Interferometric Measurements of Refractive Index Dispersion in Polymers over the Visible and Near-Infrared Spectral Range," Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2006, 100, 65.

• Namika Nakagawa, William R. Furlong, and Ramee Indralingam, "A Low-Cost Pump Assembly for the Spectrophotometric Detection of the Color Change of an Indicator", Chemical Educator, 2004, 9, 102.