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Temple Student Research Stands Out At Poster Session
Once again this year Temple’s Chemistry Department hosted the annual graduate, undergraduate, and high school poster sessions presented by the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society. Some 65 posters by undergraduate and graduate students from 13 area colleges and universities and two high schools were submitted and displayed. Judging was done by representatives from local universities and industries, including St. Joseph’s, Villanova, Rohm and Haas and DuPont. Temple students received 5 of the 8 awards, including 4 of 4 in the graduate level.
Deepti, a member of Chemistry Professor Susan Jansen Varnum’s research group, was one of five Temple students whose posters were judged winners during the event. Other Temple winners included undergraduate Jennifer Alleva, “Solid-Phase Synthesis of Functionalized Bis-Peptides” (advisor Chris Schafmeister); and graduate students John Brady, Development of an Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer for Solution and Gas Phase Control of Macromolecules” (advisor Robert Levis); Andrii Buvailo, “Synthesis of SnO_2 -based Nanomaterials Doped with Pd Additives for Hydrogen Sensor Applications” (advisor Eric Borguet); and Goutham Kodali, “Excited state electronic properties of 8VA (8-vinyladenosine): An experimental and theoretical study” (advisor Robert Stanley).
