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The Wabash Valley Local Section American Chemical Society Undergraduate Research Conference is scheduled for
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The meeting is designed as a forum for undergraduate students who have performed research to share the results of their work with fellow students and faculty from Mid-West region universities. We plan to have both oral talks and poster presentations. We plan to have awards for the best presentation.

Symposium Schedule

Oral Presentations: Session I (10:15 AM – 12:00 PM)
Improving Upon a Model for Drug Movement Through the Eye
Garet Bailey* and Emma Dosmar
Department of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803

Repeat Length of Patterns on Weaving Products
Zhuochen Liu* and Joshua Holden
Department of Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, 47803

Bluetooth Tracking
Cherise McMahon*, Connor Bade, and Sid Stamm
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803

Synthesis of a Tetrahedral Poly-Pincer Core for the Development of Novel Organometallic Network Materials
Ashley N. Braaksma*, Mario N. Cosio and Dr. Oleg V. Ozerov
Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843

Investigation of the Microwave-Assisted Claisen-Dieckmann Condensation of Diethyl Succinate
Rachel L. Shubella*, Rebecca B. DeVasher, and Mark E. Brandt
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN

Computational Phylogenetics Using Latent Semantic Indexing
Xin Tang* and Dr. Jeffery Leader
Department of Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, 47803

Designing a Valve Block to Control Many Flow Rates with Few Inputs
Kevin Ferguson* and Ryder Winck
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803


Oral Presentations: Session II (2:45 PM – 3:45 PM)
Flexible and Hydrophobic Polymeric Coatings on Cellulose Paper via Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD)
Logan Fenimore*, Nareh Movsesian, and Malancha Gupta
University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering, The Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Los Angeles, California 90007

Building and Characterizing Constructed Wetlands for Stormwater Treatment
Sean Jackson* and Michelle Marincel Payne
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803

The Distribution and Astrochemistry of Molecules in M0.10-0.08
Riley Dunnagan*(1,2), Natalie Butterfield(2), and Dave Frayer(2)
(1) Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology PHOE, Terre Haute, IN 47803, and (2) Green Bank Observatory, Green Bank, WV 24944



Poster Presentations: Session I (8:30 AM – 10:00 AM)
Computational Study of the Dissociation of Cyclohexanol Using Natural Bond Orbital Analysis
Ahmad Ahmad* and Eric D. Glendening
Department of Chemistry & Physics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 47809

Characterizing Microplastic Degradation in Simulated Marine Environments: Evaluation of a GCMS Protocol
Evan Ammidown*, Rachel Shubella*, Xiaoxiao Wang*, Dr. Heather Chenette
Department of Chemical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN

Live Migration of Legacy Systems to Emulator
Aman Bajaj*
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, 47803

Magneto-optical Characterization of Magnetic Nanoparticles in a Liquid Crystal Matrix
Nate Fried*1, Li Wei1, Maarij Syed1, and Marissa Tousley2
1 Department of Physics and Optical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 5500 Wabash Ave, Terre Haute, IN 47803

Implementing Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics
Anthony Froehlich* and Eric D. Glendening
Department of Chemistry & Physics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 47809

Development of a Visualization Tool for Nodal Performance Analysis of HPC Systems
Ruth Hammond* and Arnold Tharrington
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803, and X117 Scientific Computing Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830

Accessible Synthesis of Organofluorosilicates
Jarett Posz* and Ryan Van Hoveln
Department of Chemistry & Physics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

Matrix Isolation Infrared Spectroscopy: Studying New Molecules
Cameron Shane*, Chaobo Li*, and Fumie Sunahori
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN

Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry of Poison Frog Alkaloids
Baylee S. Sparks*, Rachel L. Worthington*, and Richard W. Fitch
Department of Chemistry & Physics, Indiana State University, 600 Chestnut Street, Science Building, Room S035E, Terre Haute, IN 47809

Importance of Expediting Solar Energy Storage Options and Renewable Energy
Bryan Walker
Department of Chemistry & Physics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 47809


Poster Presentations: Session II (1:00 PM – 2:30 PM)
Role of GSSG in the Metal-Mediated Oxidative DNA Damage with Iron
Amol Agarwal* and Daniel Morris
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803

Micro expression recognition using Convolutional Neural Network with a combined database
Yuqi Zhou *
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803

Laser Color Mixing for Automotive Low-Beam
Zhaowei Chen*and Hossein Alisafaee
Department of Physics & Optical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, 47803

Magneto-Optical Characterization of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solutions
Wei (Timothy) Li*, Nathaniel Fried, and Maarij Syed
Department of Physics & Optical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803

Design and Fabrication of Diffractive Optical Elements
Jared Martin* and Hossein Alisafaee
Department of Physics and Optical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803

Copper-Catalyzed Silylations of Aldehydes
Courtney E. Nuyen*, Jake R. Wilkinson, Travis H. Reiner, and Ryan Van Hoveln
Department of Chemistry & Physics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809

Cobalt Boride-Mediated Alcohol Synthesis from Nitriles
Kara N. Skorge*, Benjamin French, David A. Nastav, and Jason J. Pflueger
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803

Gan-Rl: A Transfer Learning Solution for Applying Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving in Real World
Song Luo and Lixing Song
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, 47803

Oxidation of Reactive Blue 4 Through the Use of a Heterogeneous Fenton Catalyst
Elliott Tong* and Gregory T. Neumann
Department of Chemical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803

Applying Reinforcement Learning for Real World Autonomous Vehicle Driving
Junheng Wang* and Lixing Song
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN, 47803

Modeling the Baking Process with Mathematics
Yifei Xiao* and David L Finn
Department of Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN47803

Measuring the dimer exchange process of the Estrogen Receptor alpha ligand-binding domain using FRET measurements with fusion protein synthesis
Yifei Yang* and Mark E. Brandt
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN 47803
 

Abstract Guidelines

For formatting instructions and printing posters on the Rose-Hulman Campus, you may wish to consult the Poster Printing Service page. (This link only works for individuals who are part of the Rose-Hulman community.


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The symposium will be held in the Kahn Room of the Mussallem Student Union.






Program Directors

      Mark Brandt, Ph.D.
      Moench FL-109 (x8406)
      Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
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      David Finn, Ph.D.
      Moench BL-106
      Department of Mathematics
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