All students conduct at least one independent research project under faculty supervision and many present their results at venues external to Marist. Our students co-author publications in prestigious journals and win awards at regional and national conferences. The most recent American Chemical Society evaluation of our department characterized our student research reports as "excellent".
(* denotes a Marist student, bold denotes Marist faculty)
Bendl, R. F.*, Kandel, J. M.*, Amodeo, K. D.*, Ryder, A. M., Woolridge E. M. "Characterization of the oxidative inactivation of xylanase by laccase and a redox mediator." Enzyme and Microbial Technology 2008, 43, 149.
DeBlase, A.*, Licata, M.*; Galbraith, J. M. "A valence bond study of three-center four-electron p bonding: electronegativity vs electroneutrality" Journal of Physical Chemistry Part A 2008, ASAP Article (available online).
Takatani, T.*, Fitzgerald, N., Galbraith, J. M. "Proposed reaction mechanisms for selenium vapor generation by UV photolysis by computational methods" Analytical and Bioanaytical. Chemistry 2007, 388, 859.
Christine Schenck* and Jocelyn Nadeau. "Synthesis and study of segmented conducting polymers with axial chirality," presented at 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition. Philadelphia, PA. August 2008.
Andrew DeBlase*, Catherine DeBlase*, William Shearouse* and Jocelyn Nadeau. "Toward the synthesis of c-shaped electroactive monomers for the study of charge migration in conducting polymers," presented at 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition. Philadelphia, PA. August 2008.
Lennie J. Ramirez*, Eric Dumas*, and John Morrison Galbraith. "A valence bond study of the and bonds of transition metal dioxygen dications." Presented at the Mercury Conference on Undergraduate Computational Chemistry. Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. August 2007.
Jillian Lennartz*, Jeremy Madden* and Neil Fitzgerald. "Determination of mercury utilizing cold vapor UV photoreduction with in-atomizer trapping." Presented at the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies Annual Conference. Memphis, TN. October 2007.
Maureen K. Boucher* and Elisa Woolridge. "Does tryptophan oxidation lead to laccase inactivation?" Presented at the 9th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium of the Mid-Hudson Section of the American Chemical Society. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. April 2008.
Lennie J. Ramirez* and Elisa Woolridge. "Modification of xylanase by N bromosuccinimide: Correlation between tryptophan oxidation and enzyme inactivation." Presented at the 9th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium of the Mid-Hudson Section of the American Chemical Society. Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. April 2008.
