2021
Insulin: Roles and Functions in Biochemistry and U.S. Healthcare, Mia Brinkley
Implementation of a Constraint and Configuration Interaction Methodology Into Density Functional Tight Binding, Gunnar J. Carlson
Pyridinediimine Complexes with Coordination Sphere Interactions Relevant to Copper and Non-Heme Iron Enzymes, Pui Man Audrey Cheung
Enhancing Plasmonic Nanomaterials: Colorimetric Sensing and SERS, John Crockett
Exploring Biochemical Mechanisms with Hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics and Enhanced Sampling Methods, Edwin Enciso
Synthesis and Reactions of Medium-Ring Silyl Ethers, Inna A. Fomina
Structural Analysis of Protein-Peptide Interactions, Melody Gao
Indium Oxide-Based Catalysts for Solar Fuel Generation, Ryan Hagmann
Redox-Active Coordination Complexes for Small Molecule Activation with Environmental Applications, Hanalei Lewine
Demystifying Denitrification: Coordination Complexes Give Valuable Insight into the Reduction of Nitrogen Oxides, Walker R. Marks
Synthesis of guaipyridine alkaloids rupestines C, D and K with studies toward the synthesis of rupestines B, J, L and M, Briana J. Mulligan
Living With It: A Patient’s and a Biochemist’s Perspective on Kidney Disease; A Historical Review of Alport Syndrome, Jacob Olson
Multifunctional Polymer-Nanoparticle Composites for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Applications, Aliandra E. Pierce, Samantha A. Patrick, and Steven R. Emory
Structure of Blood Coagulation Factor VIII in Complex with Anti-C2 Domain Inhibitory Antibody, Estelle K. Ronayne, Shaun C. Peters, Joseph Gish, Celena Wilson, H Trent Spencer, Christopher B. Doering, Pete Lollar, P Clint Spiegel Jr., and Kenneth C. Childers
Extension of Restricted Open-Shell Kohn-Sham Methodology to a Density-Functional Tight-Binding Framework, Reuben Szabo
Computational Design of Novel Materials for Solar Energy Conversion and Catalysis, Corey Teply
Structural Studies of the von Willebrand Factor D’ domain and its Binding Mechanism to Factor VIII, AP Wang
Signaling and Trafficking in Choanoflagellates and Humans: A Study of Conserved Peptide-Binding Domains, Haley Wofford
2020
Activation of Nitrite and Carbon Dioxide by Cobalt Centered Redox Active Ligand Featuring a Hemilabile Pendant Amine, Douglas F. Baumgardner
Polybenzoxazine-Grafted Composites: Accelerated Polymerization of Benzoxazine Resins from Bulk- to Microscale Mesylated Materials, Cassidy L. Crickmore
Development of TI-DFTB: Transition Dipole Moment Calculations in a Time-Independent Density Functional Tight-Binding Framework, Megan Deshaye
Submonolayer Nucleation in Ultrathin Liquid Films: Scaling Properties and the Effects of the Critical Nucleus Size, Haley Doran
LSC Fabrication and Design: Bulk Polymerization and Ultrathin Architectures, Justin T. Doyle
Identification, Quantification, and Catalytic Relevance of Nanoparticles Generated In Situ During Polyol Deoxygenation, Rachael Gitnes
Sorting Out Sortases: Designing a Better Enzyme and Synthesizing Trapping Peptides Towards Capturing a Bound-State Structure, Katherine Johnston
Uniform Dispersion of Nanoparticles in PMMA Waveguides for Luminescent Solar Concentrators, Daniel Korus
Allylic Benzoate Reductions: A Study on Stereospecificity, Michael A. Leitch
Carbodiimides: Templates for Covalent Adaptable Networks and Post Polymerization Modification, Alberto J Melchor Bañales
Investigating Transfer of Energy Concepts Learned in Physics to Biology Contexts, Brittany Mureno and Eric McKenzie
Organic Molecular Crystal Engineering via Organic Vapor-Liquid-Solid Deposition, Griffin Reed
Synthesis and Characterization of Earth Abundant Metal Phosphide Photocatalysts for the Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction, John D. Springer
Synthetic Studies on Guaipyridine Alkaloids: Rupestines B and C, Evangeline Starchman
Synthesis of a Stimulus Responsive LX-type ligand, Jason Stockwell
Engineering Class A Sortases: Activity and Selectivity of Hybrid and Ancestral Variants, Sarah Struyvenberg
Seasonal Differences in the Optical Properties of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter at Hoag’s Pond, WA, Kimberly Wallace
Plasmonic-based hybrid nanomaterial: from synthesis to application, Maggie Wang
2019
Synthesis of a stimulus responsive phosphine ligand and metal binding studies, Gabriel Bourne
Isopeptide Ligations Catalyzed by Streptococcus Suis Sortase A, Sarah Bowersox
Calculation of excited state characteristics and electronic transition dipole moments in time-independent DFTB, Megan Deshaye
The Role of Non-Motif Selectivity Determinants in PDZ Domain-Binding Interactions, Melody Gao
Structural Studies of Complexes of Blood Coagulation Factor VIII, Joseph S. Gish
Equity in STEM: Utilizing Student Experience to Better Inform Policy and Practice, Natasha Hessami
Efforts Toward the Structural Characterization of Sortase A from Streptococcus pneumoniae, Nicholas M. Horvath
Progress Towards the Substrate-bound Structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae Sortase A, Nicholas M. Horvath
Generation of Polymeric Recombinant Hemoglobin Using DBCO-modified Hemoglobin, Sifora lebeneh and Rahwa Demoz
Surface modified gold nanorods based mercury sensor, Tianqi Luan
Polycarbodiimides and Polyguanidines : Their reactivity and applications in covalent adaptable networks, Alberto Melchor Bañales
Bottom-Up Shape Engineering of Organic Molecular Single-Crystals, Griffin Reed
Multifunctional Microgels for Nanoparticle-Based Detection Methodologies, Alyson Silva
Exploring Postpolymerization Modification of Reactive Polymers, Tierra Smith and Connor Gallagher
Engineering Sortase; Activity and Selectivity of New Hybrid and Ancestral Variants of Sortase A, Sarah Struyvenberg
Investigation of Nanoparticle Microplastic Analogs for Environmental Assessment, Star Summer
Determining the Mechanism of Action of the Antibiotic Argyrin B, Chris Swanson
Structural Studies on the Mechanism of Argyrin B and the L12 – L11 Ribosomal Protein Interface, Christopher Swanson
Controlling the Equilibrium of Sortase-Mediated Ligations to Modify Proteins and Build Peptide Oligomers, Savanna Takasaki
The Atomic and Electronic Structure and Tunability of Ruddlesden-Popper Phases for Photovoltaic Applications, Britt A. Tyler
Synthesis of an Archazolid Based Enzyme Inhibitor, Cooper A. Vincent
Examining the optical properties of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in Puget Sound at Taylor dock using 3D excitation emission matrix spectroscopy, Ashley Yamaura and Emma Nordlund
2018
Synthesis and Characterization of PDI Metallo-enzyme Mimics, Kristopher Aguayo and Wyatt Parks
Titania Stabilized Cuprous Oxide Photocatalyst for the reduction of Carbon Dioxide, Sasha Alden
Mitigating compounding losses in luminescent solar concentrators., Douglas Baumgardner and Amy Morren
The Role of Ethylene in Regulation of Pectin Modifying Enzymes and in Pectin Remodeling within Petunia axillaris Pistils, Nicholas Blair and Bryce Pettit Estell
The Synthesis of Optically Pure Cananodine, Kendelyn Bone
Lewis Acids in the Secondary Coordination Sphere for Kinetic Enhancement Toward Reduction of Nitrite, Kyle T. Burns
Oxide-Supported Metal Phosphides as New Photocatalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation, Liam Carmody
Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors Based on High-Index Dielectric Metal-Insulator-Metal Structures, Sarah Clark
Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis, Manipulation, and Characterization, Sullivan Cohen-Pope
Investigating Upper-Division Students' Scientific Modeling Practices in the Context of Molecular Vibrations., Cassidy Crickmore
New Reactions of Ring Strained Allyl Silanes, Elizabeth J. (Elizabeth Jane) Cummins
Single Determinant Excited State Methods: MOM, IMOM, ΔSCF, DIIS, Megan Deshaye
Computational Design of Double Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications, Haley Doran
Degradable Conductive Polymers for Biomedical Applications, Randy Grant and Jeremy Talusig
Monodisperse oligomeric hemoglobin for use in critical care, Dedeepya Gudipati and Leah Huey
Exploiting the Reactivity of Sortase Homologs for Generating Isopeptide Bonds, Natasha Hessami
Exploration of Peptide-Thiophene Hybrids as Self-Assembling Conductive Hydrogels, Ellie I. James
Reliable synthesis of block copolymer templated bimetallic nanoparticles, Liam Knight
Crystallization of pC2, Lilly Konek
Shape-Engineered Semiconducting Organic Single-Crystals, Matt Littleton and Sebastian Ceaser
pH-Responsive Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates, Joelle Lo and Collin Mallinak
Redox-Inactive Lewis-Acids in the Secondary Coordination Sphere for Nitrite Reduction, Walker Marks and Jade Porubek
Synthesis and Evaluation of Sortase A Inhibitors, Stephanie Maxwell
Band gap and edge engineering of perovskite niobate and tantalate photocatalysts, Geoffrey McClarin
Iodine Mediated Rearrangement of Diphenyldiallyl Silane, Chris Myers and Paul Spaltenstein
Increased Thermal Properties of Benzoxazine Polymers Cured with End-group Tosylated Polymers, Ayesha Nadeem
Selective Modification of Silk-Film Surfaces, Evan Patamia
Purification and crystallization of I-SSC1, Eve Pavkov and Micah Nakao
Purification of a C1-C2 Domain Fusion Protein From Blood Coagulation Factor VIII., Shaun Peters
Synthesis of end group functionalized PMMA ligands for QD based LSCs, Megan Plummer and Kayla Koch
Homogenous Catalysts for the Conversion of Epoxides to Alcohols, Alena Rainsberry and Jarrod Sage
Driving Sortase-Mediated Ligations Using Metal-Coordinating Peptides, Sierra Reed
Copper-free Sonogashira Reaction to Modify the Tyrosine Residues on Silk Proteins, Racine Santen
A Chemoenzymatic Approach to the Synthesis of Hemoglobin Oligomers, Johann Sigurjonsson
Relating strain, distortion, and electronic properties in perovskite materials, Sydney Sipes-Hayse
Developing methodology for segmental isotopic labeling of large disordered polypeptides, Derrick Smith and Erin Rosenkranz