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aPKCs role in Neuroblastoma cell signaling cascades and Implications of aPKCs inhibitors as potential therapeutics , Sloan Breedy
Protein Folding Kinetics Analysis Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy , Dhanya Dhananjayan
Affordances and Limitations of Molecular Representations in General and Organic Chemistry , Ayesha Farheen
Institutional and Individual Approaches to Change in Undergraduate STEM Education: Two Framework Analyses , Stephanie B. Feola
Applications in Opioid Analysis with FAIMS Through Control of Vapor Phase Solvent Modifiers , Nathan Grimes
Synthesis, Characterization, and Separation of Loaded Liposomes for Drug Delivery , Sandra Khalife
Supramolecular Architectures Generated by Self-assembly of Guanosine and Isoguanosine Derivatives , Mengjia Liu
Syntheses, Photophysics, & Application of Porphyrinic Metal-Organic Frameworks , Zachary L. Magnuson
Chemical Analysis of Metabolites from Mangrove Endophytic Fungus , Sefat E Munjerin
Synthesis of Small Molecule Modulators of Non-Traditional Drug Targets , Jamie Nunziata
Synthetic Studies of Potential New Ketogenic Molecules , Mohammad Nazmus Sakib
Coupling Chemical and Genomic Data of Marine Sediment-Associated Bacteria for Metabolite Profiling , Stephanie P. Suarez
Enhanced Methods in Forensic Mass Spectrometry for Targeted and Untargeted Drug Analysis , Dina M. Swanson
Investigation of Challenging Transformations in Gold Catalysis , Qi Tang
Diazirines and Oxaziridines as Nitrogen Transfer Reagents in Drug Discovery , Khalilia C. Tillett
Developing New Strategy toward Ruthenium and Gold Redox Catalysis , Chenhuan Wang
Gold-Catalyzed Diyne-ene Cyclization: Synthesis of Hetero Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons and 1,2-Dihydropyridines , Jingwen Wei
Development of Antiviral Peptidomimetics , Songyi Xue
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
Investigating a Potential STING Modulator , Jaret J. Crews
Exploring the Structure and Activity of Metallo-Tetracyclines , Shahedul Islam
Metabolomic Analysis, Identification and Antimicrobial Assay of Two Mangrove Endophytes , Stephen Thompson
Bioactivity of Suberitenones A and B , Jared G. Waters
Developing Efficient Transition Metal Catalyzed C-C & C-X Bond Construction , Chiyu Wei
Measurement in Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics Education: Student Explanations of Organic Chemistry Reaction Mechanisms and Instructional Practices in Introductory Courses , Brandon J. Yik
Study on New Reactivity of Vinyl Gold and Its Sequential Transformations , Teng Yuan
Study on New Strategy toward Gold(I/III) Redox Catalysis , Shuyao Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
Design, Synthesis and Testing of Bioactive Peptidomimetics , Sami Abdulkadir
Synthesis of Small Molecules for the Treatment of Infectious Diseases , Elena Bray
Social Constructivism in Chemistry Peer Leaders and Organic Chemistry Students , Aaron M. Clark
Synthesizing Laccol Based Polymers/Copolymers and Polyurethanes; Characterization and Their Applications , Imalka Marasinghe Arachchilage
The Photophysical Studies of Transition Metal Polyimines Encapsulated in Metal Organic Frameworks (MOF’s) , Jacob M. Mayers
Light Harvesting in Photoactive Guest-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks , Christopher R. McKeithan
Using Quantitative Methods to Investigate Student Attitudes Toward Chemistry: Women of Color Deserve the Spotlight , Guizella A. Rocabado Delgadillo
Simulations of H2 Sorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks , Shanelle Suepaul
Parallel Computation of Feynman Path Integrals and Many-Body Polarization with Application to Metal-Organic Materials , Brant H. Tudor
The Development of Bioactive Peptidomimetics Based on γ-AApeptides , Minghui Wang
Investigation of Immobilized Enzymes in Confined Environment of Mesoporous Host Matrices , Xiaoliang Wang
Novel Synthetic Ketogenic Compounds , Michael Scott Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
Biosynthetic Gene Clusters, Microbiomes, and Secondary Metabolites in Cold Water Marine Organisms , Nicole Elizabeth Avalon
Differential Mobility Spectrometry-Mass spectrometry (DMS-MS) for Forensic and Nuclear-Forensic applications , Ifeoluwa Ayodeji
Conversion from Metal Oxide to MOF Thin Films as a Platform of Chemical Sensing , Meng Chen
Asking Why : Analyzing Students' Explanations of Organic Chemistry Reaction Mechanisms using Lexical Analysis and Predictive Logistic Regression Models , Amber J. Dood
Development of Next-Generation, Fast, Accurate, Transferable, and Polarizable Force-fields for Heterogenous Material Simulations , Adam E. Hogan
Breakthroughs in Obtaining QM/MM Free Energies , Phillip S. Hudson
New Synthetic Methodology Using Base-Assisted Diazonium Salts Activation and Gold Redox Catalysis , Abiola Azeez Jimoh
Development and Application of Computational Models for Biochemical Systems , Fiona L. Kearns
Analyzing the Retention of Knowledge Among General Chemistry Students , James T. Kingsepp
A Chemical Investigation of Three Antarctic Tunicates of the Genus Synoicum , Sofia Kokkaliari
Construction of Giant 2D and 3D Metallo-Supramolecules Based on Pyrylium Salts Chemistry , Yiming Li
Assessing Many-Body van der Waals Contributions in Model Sorption Environments , Matthew K. Mostrom
Advancing Equity Amongst General Chemistry Students with Variable Preparations in Mathematics , Vanessa R. Ralph
Sustainable Non-Noble Metal based Catalysts for High Performance Oxygen Electrocatalysis , Swetha Ramani
The Role of aPKCs and aPKC Inhibitors in Cell Proliferation and Invasion in Breast and Ovarian Cancer , Tracess B. Smalley
Development of Ultrasonic-based Ambient Desorption Ionization Mass Spectrometry , Linxia Song
Covalent Organic Frameworks as an Organic Scaffold for Heterogeneous Catalysis including C-H Activation , Harsh Vardhan
Optimization of a Digital Ion Trap to Perform Isotope Ratio Analysis of Xenon for Planetary Studies , Timothy Vazquez
Multifunctional Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) For Applications in Sustainability , Gaurav Verma
Design, Synthesis of Axial Chiral Triazole , Jing Wang
The Development of AApeptides , Lulu Wei
Chemical Investigation of Floridian Mangrove Endophytes and Antarctic Marine Organisms , Bingjie Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
An Insight into the Biological Functions, the Molecular Mechanism and the Nature of Interactions of a Set of Biologically Important Proteins. , Adam A. Aboalroub
Functional Porous Materials: Applications for Environmental Sustainability , Briana Amaris Aguila
Biomimetic Light Harvesting in Metalloporphyrins Encapsulated/Incorporated within Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs). , Abdulaziz A. Alanazi
Design and Synthesis of Novel Agents for the Treatment of Tropical Diseases , Linda Corrinne Barbeto
Effect of Atypical protein kinase C inhibitor (DNDA) on Cell Proliferation and Migration of Lung Cancer Cells , Raja Reddy Bommareddy
The Activity and Structure of Cu2+ -Biomolecules in Disease and Disease Treatment , Darrell Cole Cerrato
Simulation and Software Development to Understand Interactions of Guest Molecules inPorous Materials , Douglas M. Franz
Construction of G-quadruplexes via Self-assembly: Enhanced Stability and Unique Properties , Ying He
The Role of Atypical Protein Kinase C in Colorectal Cancer Cells Carcinogenesis , S M Anisul Islam
Chemical Tools and Treatments for Neurological Disorders and Infectious Diseases , Andrea Lemus
Antarctic Deep Sea Coral and Tropical Fungal Endophyte: Novel Chemistry for Drug Discovery , Anne-Claire D. Limon
Constituent Partitioning Consensus Docking Models and Application in Drug Discovery , Rainer Metcalf
An Investigation into the Heterogeneity of Insect Arylalkylamine N -Acyltransferases , Brian G. O'Flynn
Evaluating the Evidence Base for Evidence-Based Instructional Practices in Chemistry through Meta-Analysis , Md Tawabur Rahman
Role of Oncogenic Protein Kinase C-iota in Melanoma Progression; A Study Based on Atypical Protein Kinase-C Inhibitors , Wishrawana Sarathi Bandara Ratnayake
Formulation to Application: Thermomechanical Characterization of Flexible Polyimides and The Improvement of Their Properties Via Chain Interaction , Alejandro Rivera Nicholls
The Chemical Ecology and Drug Discovery Potential of the Antarctic Red Alga Plocamium cartilagineum and the Antarctic Sponge Dendrilla membranosa , Andrew Jason Shilling
Synthesis, Discovery and Delivery of Therapeutic Natural Products and Analogs , Zachary P. Shultz
Development of α-AA peptides as Peptidomimetics for Antimicrobial Therapeutics and The Discovery of Nanostructures , Sylvia E. Singh
Self-Assembly of 2D and 3D Metallo-Supramolecules with Increasing Complexity , Bo Song
The Potential of Marine Microbes, Flora and Fauna in Drug Discovery , Santana Alexa Lavonia Thomas
Design, Synthesis, and Self-Assembly of Supramolecular Fractals Based on Terpyridine with Different Transition Metal Ions , Lei Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Fatty Acid Amides and Their Biosynthetic Enzymes Found in Insect Model Systems , Ryan L. Anderson
Interrogation of Protein Function with Peptidomimetics , Olapeju Bolarinwa
Characterization of Nylon-12 in a Novel Additive Manufacturing Technology, and the Rheological and Spectroscopic Analysis of PEG-Starch Matrix Interactions , Garrett Michael Craft
Synthesis of Novel Agents for the treatment of Infectious and Neurodegenerative diseases , Benjamin Joe Eduful
Survey research in postsecondary chemistry education: Measurements of faculty members’ instructional practice and students’ affect , Rebecca E. Gibbons
Design, Synthesis, Application of Biodegradable Polymers , Mussie Gide
Conformational Fluctuations of Biomolecules Studied Using Molecular Dynamics and Enhanced Sampling , Geoffrey M. Gray
Analysis and New Applications of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOF): Thermal Conductivity of a Perovskite-type MOF and Incorporation of a Lewis Pair into a MOF. , Wilarachchige D C B Gunatilleke
Chemical Investigation of Bioactive Marine Extracts , Selam Hagos
Optimizing Peptide Fractionation to Maximize Content in Cancer Proteomics , Victoria Izumi
Germania-based Sol-gel Coatings and Core-shell Particles in Chromatographic Separations , Chengliang Jiang
Synthesis, Modification, Characterization and Processing of Molded and Electrospun Thermoplastic Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites , Tamalia Julien
Studies Aimed at the Synthesis of Anti-Infective Agents , Ankush Kanwar
From Florida to Antarctica: Dereplication Strategies and Chemical Investigations of Marine Organisms , Matthew A. Knestrick
Sorbent Enrichment Performance of Aromatic Compounds from Diluted Liquid Solution , Le Meng
Development of Bioactive Peptidomimetics , Fengyu She
Azamacrocyclic-based Frameworks: Syntheses and Characterizations , Chavis Andrew Stackhouse
Structure-based Design, Synthesis and Applications of a New Class of Peptidomimetics: 'Y -AA Peptides and Their Derivatives , Ma Su
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Halide Exchange and Transport in Halide Perovskite Lattices , Temban Acha Billy
Synthesis and Study of High-Spin Stable Organic Radicals for Electrical Conductors and Mannosamine Nitroxide for MRI Contrast Agents , Shuyang Zhang
Designing Experiments: The Impact of Peer Review Structure on Organic Chemistry Students' Experimental Designs , Katie Patterson
Study of halide gradient formation via solution-solid halide exchange in crystalline CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 thin films , Behnaz Akbari
Oxygen Binding Thermodynamics of Human Hemoglobin in the Red Blood Cell , Kyle K. Hill
Developing Techniques for the Identification of Non-Canonical RNA Pairing and Analysis of LC-MS Datasets , Christopher Jurich
Surface Functionalization of Elastomers for Tunable Crystal Growth and Smart Adhesives , John Kapitan
Issue of False Amphetamine Field Test Positives Caused By Sugar. Use of Baeyer Test as a Secondary Test Solution. , Reed A. Knutson, Jennah Duncan, Kara Peightal, and Samuel Thomas
Harnessing Surface Chemistry and Instabilities in Silicone Elastomers to Synthesize Adaptive Systems with Mechanically Tunable Surface Properties and Functionality , Ali Jamal Mazaltarim
How Oxygen-Binding Affects Structural Evolution of Even-Sized Gold Anion Clusters. (Size Range 20 to 34) , David Brunken-Deibert
Analysis of Hydroxychloroquine Interaction with Serum Proteins by High Performance Affinity Chromatography , Kyungah Suh, Sadia Sharmeen, and David S. Hage
The Application and Development of Metabolomics Methodologies for the Profiling of Food and Cellular Toxicity , Jade Woods
Evaluation of the Overall Binding of Acetohexamide and Tolbutamide with Methyl Glyoxal-Modified HSA by High-Performance Affinity Chromatography , Ashley G. Woolfork and David S. Hage
C(sp2)-C(sp3) Cross-Coupling of Aryl Halides and Active C(sp3)-H Bonds via Dual Catalysis: Organic Photocatalysis/Nickel Redox Catalysis , Nicholas Armada
Phosphonate-Directed Catalytic Asymmetric Hydroboration: Synthesis of Functionalized Chiral Secondary and Tertiary Boronic Esters and Mechanistic Insights , Suman Chakrabarty
COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF THERMAL PROPERTIES AND DESALINATION PERFORMANCE OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS , Yang Hong
QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS APPLIED TO SOMO-HOMO CONVERSION AND VIBRATIONALLY AVERAGED NMR SHIELDING PARAMETERS , Erik Johnson
Design and Synthesis of Stable Aminyl and Nitroxide Radical Precursors , Joshua Bryan Lovell
Development of Nanomaterial Supports for the Study of Affinity-Based Analytes Using Ultra-Thin Layer Chromatography , Allegra Pekarek
ANALYSIS OF DRUG-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS DURING DIABETES BY HIGH-PERFORMANCE AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY , Pingyang Tao
Electropolymerization and Characterization of Thin Film Dielectrics , Christopher White II
Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Activity of Copper Palladium Oxide Solid Solutions. , Gregory L. Christensen
GLOBAL MINIMUM SEARCH AND CARBON MONOXIDE BINDING STUDIES OF NOVEL GOLD NANOCLUSTERS , Navneet S. Khetrapal
Mass Spectrometry and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in the Chemometric Analysis of Cellular Metabolism , Eli Riekeberg
Ultrafast Affinity Extraction and High-Performance Affinity Chromatography Applications for Measuring Free Drug Fractions: Interactions of Sulfonylurea Drugs with Normal and Glycated Human Serum Albumin , Bao Yang
DEVELOPMENT OF ENTRAPMENT COLUMNS FOR THE STUDY OF AFFINITY BASED ANALYSIS OF DRUG-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS , Shiden T. Azaria
Chemical Vapor Deposition of Two-Dimensional Materials and Heterostructures , Alex J. Boson
Bioinformatic and Biophysical Analyses of Proteins , Jonathan Catazaro
Developing Functionalized Peroxide Precursors for the Synthesis of Cyclic and Spirocyclic Ethers , Anna J. Diepenbrock
Decarboxylative Elimination for the Systhesis of Olefins Via Photoredox/Cobalt Dual Catalysis , Renjie Gui
Enantioselective γ- and δ -Borylation of Unsaturated Carbonyl Derivatives: Synthesis, Mechanistic Insights, and Applications. , Gia L. Hoang
Entrapment of proteins in high-performance affinity columns for chromatographic studies of drug-protein interactions , Saumen Poddar, Elliott Rodriguez, Shiden Azaria, and David S. Hage
Genetic Code Expansion in Biochemical Investigations and Biomedical Applications , Nanxi Wang
Applying the Diffusion of Innovation Theory to Characterize STEM Faculty Attending Professional Development Programs , Dihua Xue
Who is attending pedagogical workshops? Applying the Innovation Diffusion to Characterize Faculty Attendees , Victoria Dihua Xue, Trisha Vickrey, and Marilyne Stains
Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Protein Biosensor for Nitric Oxide , Wenjia Zhai
STUDIES IN DIRECTED CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC HYDROBORATION OF 1,2-DISUBSTITUTED UNSATURATED AMIDE , Shuyang Zhang
Synthesis and Applications of Cyclobutenes , Benjamin Enns
Binding of Oxygen to Human Hemoglobin Within the Erythrocyte Using ICAM Spectrophotometry , Kyle K. Hill
Design and Synthesis of Novel Octacarboxy Porphyrinic Metal-Organic Frameworks , Jacob A. Johnson
Development of a Direct Activity Probe for Rho-Associated Protein Kinase , Maia Kelly
Thermolysis of Hypervalent Iodine Complexes: Synthesis of Fluorinated Radiotracers for Positron Emission Tomography and Synthesis of Quaternary α-Alkyl α-Aryl Amino Acids , Jayson J. Kempinger
Synthesis and Applications of Lanthanide Sulfides and Oxides , Christopher Marin
SELECTIVE IODINATION USING DIARYLIODONIUM SALTS , William H. Miller IV
MOLECULAR MECHANISM FOR THE BIOSYNTHESIS AND REGULATION OF SECONDARY METABOLITES IN LYSOBACTER , Simon Tesfamichael Tombosa
STUDIES IN ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS: SUPRAMOLECULAR CATALYSIS AND BORANE-ASSISTED HYDROGENATION , Kazuya Toyama
Molecular Mechanism for the Biosynthesis of Antifungal HSAF and Antibacterial WAP-8294A2 , Haotong Chen
Toward the Probing of DHQS Activity by Protein Engineering through the Introduction of Unnatural Amino Acids and the Selection of tRNA/tRNA Synthetase Pairs , Shaina E. Ives
Toward an Expanded Role for Collision-Induced Dissociation in Glycoproteomic Analysis , Venkata Kolli
New Methods for Synthesis of Organic Peroxides and Application of Peroxide Electrophiles to Synthesis of Functionalized Ethers , Shiva Kumar Kyasa
Chromatographic Analysis of Drug-Protein Interactions During Diabetes and Characterization of Human Serum Albumin Through Multidimensional Mass Spectrometry , Ryan E. Matsuda
THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCAFFOLDS OF GRAPHENE, CARBON NANOTUBES AND TRANSITION-METAL OXIDES FOR APPLICATIONS IN ELECTRONICS, SENSORS AND ENERGY STORAGE , Gilbert N. Mbah
TOWARD THE MEASUREMENT OF BIODISTRIBUTION OF 18 F-LABELED INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS WITH POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET) , Katelyenn S. McCauley
Investigations into the Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogen-Host Interactions: Construction of a Dual Plasmid System for Incorporation of Unnatural Amino Acids into Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 , Scotty D. Raber
Applications of High Performance Affinity Chromatography with High Capacity Stationary Phases Made by Entrapment , John A. Vargas Badilla
Uses of Diaryliodonium Salts and Methods for their Synthesis , Jordan M. Veness
The intersection of nuclear magnetic resonance and quantum chemistry , Yali Wang
Chemometric and Bioinformatic Analyses of Cellular Biochemistry , Bradley Worley
Analysis of Free Solute Fractions and Solute-Protein Interactions Using Ultrafast Affinity Extraction and Affinity Microcolumns , Xiwei Zheng
The 8-Silyloxyquinoline Scaffold as a Versatile Platform for the Sensitive Detection of Aqueous Fluoride , Xinqi Zhou
Nanostructured Cerium Oxide Based Catalysts: Synthesis, Physical Properties, and Catalytic Performance , Yunyun Zhou
Hydrolytically Stable Analogues of Sugar Phosphates and a Miniaturized in Situ Enzymatic Screen , Xiang Fei
Development and Application of Combined Quantum Mechanical and Molecular Mechanical Methods , Rui Lai
Syntheses of Aminyl Diradicals and Nitroxide Tetra- and Octaradicals , Arnon Olankitwanit
Analysis of Drug Interactions with Lipoproteins by High Performance Affinity Chromatography , Matthew R. Sobansky
Studies in Asymmetric Synthesis: Supramolecular Catalysis, C-H Activation, and D-Cycloserine Synthesis , Nathan C. Thacker
Application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Based Metabolomics to Study the Central Metabolism of Staphylococci , Bo Zhang
IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF THE MMFF94 FORCE FIELD , Hongbo Zhu
The Electrochemical Analysis of Bovine Bone Derived Supercapacitors, Organic Peroxide Explosives, and Conducting Polymer Nanojunctions , Paul Goodman
The Development and Applications of NMR Metabolomics Analysis of Bacterial Metabolomes , Steven M. Halouska
Utilizing NMR Spectroscopy and Molecular Docking as Tools for the Structural Determination and Functional Annotation of Proteins , Jaime Stark
A. Catalysis of CO-PROX by Water-Soluble Rhodium Fluorinated Porphyrins B. Studies toward Fluorination of Electron Rich Aromatics by Nucleophilic Fluoride , Shri Harsha Uppaluri
Regulation of Secondary Metabolism in Lysobacter enzymogenes : Studies of Intercellular and Intracellular Signaling , Stephen J. Wright
DIRECTED CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC HYDROBORATION OF 1,1-DISUBSTITUTED ALKENES , Mohammad Odeh Bani Khaled
I. Synthesis of β-Sitosterol and Phytosterol Esters; II. New Methodology for Singlet Oxygen Generation from 1,1-Dihydroperoxides , Jiliang Hang
Experimental and Theoretical Studies in Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance , Monica N. Kinde
Experimental and Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance , John D. Persons
RHODIUM-CATALYZED HYDROBORATION OF 1,1-DISUBSTITUTED ALKENES , Scott A. Pettibone
INVESTIGATIONS OF INTER- AND INTRAMOLECULAR C-O BOND FORMING REACTIONS OF PEROXIDE ELECTROPHILES , Benjamin W. Puffer
The Use of Rhenium (VII) Oxide as a Catalyst for the Substution of Hemiacetals , Michael W. Richardson
Characterization of Novel Macrocyclic Polyether Modified Pseudostationary Phases for use in Micellar Electrokinetic Chromatography and Development of a Chemiluminescence Presumptive Assay for Peroxide-based Explosives , Raychelle Burks
Preparation and Characterization of Biomimetic Hydroxyapatite-Resorbable Polymer Composites for Hard Tissue Repair , Kristopher R. Hiebner
High Yield Synthesis of Positron Emission Tomography Ligands for Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Imaging , Saraanne E. Hitchcock
Optimization and Implementation of Entrapment: A Novel Immobilization Technique for High-performance Affinity Chromatography , Abby J. Jackson
Fabrication and Catalytic Property of Cerium Oxide Nanomaterials , Keren Jiang
Affinity Chromatography in Environmental Analysis and Drug-Protein Interaction Studies , Efthimia Papastavros
Development and Optimization of Organic Based Monoliths for Use in Affinity Chromatography , Erika L. Pfaunmiller
I. An Improved Procedure for Alkene Ozonolysis. II. Exploring a New Structural Paradigm for Peroxide Antimalarials. , Charles Edward Schiaffo
QUANTUM MECHANICAL AND MOLECULAR MECHANICAL STUDY OF SOLVENT EFFECTS , Dejun Si
Resorbable Polymer-Hydroxyapatite Composites for Bone Trauma Treatment: Synthesis and Properties , Troy E. Wiegand
PURIFICATION OF LYSINE DECARBOXYLASE: A MODEL SYSTEM FOR PLP ENZYME INHIBITOR DEVELOPMENT AND STUDY , Leah C. Zohner
Characterization of Glycation Sites on Human Serum Albumin using Mass Spectrometry , Omar S. Barnaby
HIGH TEMPERATURE RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS IN DEVICE FABRICATION , Joseph R. Brewer
Classification, Synthesis and Characterization of Pyridyl Porphyrin Frameworks , Lucas D. DeVries
Ultrasonic Activation of Triacetone Triperoxide , LaTravia R. Dobson
Characteristics and Stability of Oxide Films on Plutonium Surfaces , Harry Guillermo García Flores
Controlling Reductive Elimination From Novel I(III) Salts Using a SECURE Method , Joseph W. Graskemper
I. A NEW SYNTHETIC APPROACH TO THE SYNTHESIS OF N-(PHOSPHONOACETYL)-L-ORNITHINE, II. THE INFLUENCE OF PYRIDINE ON THE OZONOLYSIS OF ALKENES , Bradley M. Johnson
Chromatographic Studies of Drug-Protein Binding in Diabetes , Kathryn (Krina) S. Joseph
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Except as noted below, each thesis should be about 20-25 pages in length (12 pt font, double-spaced except for abstract which may be single-spaced) and written in the style of an article to be published in a journal in the area of the research. Students should, of course, consult with their research directors about the structure of their theses; however, a suggested outline which may be used as a default follows. [Comments in brackets apply to research publications in primary literature and are generally based on material in The ACS Style Guide .]
Title; names of student and research director; date.
[The title should be brief, grammatically correct, and accurate enough to stand alone. The purposes of the title are to attract the potential audience and to aid retrieval and indexing services. The latter is facilitated by using several keywords in the title. In a journal publication, the title is followed by the names of the authors, the address of the institution where the work was conducted, and the date on which the paper was received by the journal editor. The names of the authors are each listed in the order: first, middle initial, and surname; and include all who made substantial contributions to the research. An asterisk is placed on the name of the author to whom correspondence should be addressed.]
One-half to one page (single-spaced); a succinct summary of objectives, methods, results and conclusions.
[The purposes of the abstract are (1) to allow the reader to determine the nature and information given in the paper and (2) to allow editors to pinpoint key features for use in indexing and retrieval. State briefly the problem or purpose of the research if it is not adequately conveyed by the title. Indicate theoretical or experimental plan used, accurately summarize the principal findings, and point out major conclusions.]
Statement of objectives and significance and a review of pertinent literature, carefully cited. This section should generally be more detailed than allowed for a journal article.
[The introduction should contain a clear statement of the problem and why you are studying it. Outline what has been done before by citing truly pertinent literature. Indicate the significance, scope and limits of your work. In journals, this section is frequently not labelled.]
Methods used; instrumental, synthetic and analytical, as well as computational. Also, description of equipment built, compounds synthesized, computer programs written, etc.
[This section should include sufficient detail about the materials and methods that you used so that experienced workers could repeat your work and obtain comparable results.]
The data, complete and detailed, with sufficient description to be understood — but without interpretation.
[Summarize the data collected and the statistical treatment of them. Use equations, figures, and tables where necessary for clarity and conciseness.]
The interpretation, analysis and explanation of the results, both positive and negative; what does it all mean?
[In journal publications, the Results section is sometimes combined with the Discussion section of the paper.]
Final wrap-up statement.
[Have you resolved the original problem? If not, what exactly have you contributed? Conclusions must be based on evidence presented in the paper. Suggest further study or applications, if appropriate. This section may be omitted and its contents presented in the Discussion section.]
[The last paragraph of a journal article frequently contains acknowledgements of people, places, financing, etc.]
In the style indicated by your research director. If your research director does not indicate a specific style, use the following. Book references. Author or editor (last name followed by initials),book title in italics or underlined, publisher, city of publication, year of publication, page number(s). Dodd, J.S., Ed.; The ACS Style Guide, American Chemical Society:Washington, DC, 1986, pp 108-111. Journal references. Author (last name, followed by initials), abbreviated journal title in italics or underlined, year of publication (boldface), volume number in italics or underlined, and initial page of cited article (the complete span is better). Fletcher, T.R.; Rosenfeld, R.N. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1985, 107, 2203-2212.
Any extensive tabulations of raw data, additional spectra not needed for illustration of the main text or listings of computer programs written or modified. That is, if there is just too much data to include in the Results Section or if much of the raw data have been abstracted and/or tabulated, these abstracts and/or tables may go in the Results Section along with only representative spectra (or chromatograms, etc.), and the bulk raw data put in Appendices. NEW: An appendix on safety should be added to the thesis.
- All pages should be numbered consecutively.
- Each table should be on a separate sheet, be consecutively numbered, and have a caption at the top. Columns must be labeled and all labels should be explained in the caption or in footnotes.
- Each figure should be carefully drawn on a separate sheet, consecutively numbered and accompanied by a legend. The legend should normally appear below the figure but may be placed on a separate sheet, if necessary. Figures should be carefully prepared using a drawing program such as ChemDraw or ISIS. Graphs are treated as figures, i.e., they should not be labeled as "Graph 1," "Graph 2," etc. Each axis of a graph must be clearly labeled as to the variable represented and its value along the axis. Each curve on a graph should be clearly identified. Raw data displayed in graphs may also appear in separate tables. All symbols and conventions, such as broken lines or dotted lines, should be explained in the legend.
- Insofar as is practical, mathematical equations, Greek letters, special mathematical symbols, and chemical reaction schemes should be typed in the text.
- Reprints or preprints of any publications that have already arisen from the research being reported may be appended.
- Further details may be obtained from The ACS Style Guide .
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A guide to research question writing for undergraduate chemistry education research students
Welcome to chemistry education research
There is no doubt that there are particular challenges associated with chemistry students taking up a project that brings together familiar aspects of chemistry with aspects of social sciences that are likely unfamiliar. There is a new world of terminology and literature and approaches that may initially seem insurmountable. However, as chemistry students, you bring something unique to the discussion on education: your expertise in chemistry and your experience of being a chemistry student. The combination of discipline speciality and focus on education has given rise to a new genre of education research, known as discipline based education research, or DBER ( NRC, 2012 ). The focus on chemistry, known as chemistry education research , intends to offer insights into issues affecting teaching and learning of chemistry from the perspective of chemistry, and offers enormous insight into factors affecting learning in our discipline. This journal ( www.rsc.org/cerp ) along with the Journal of Chemical Education published by the American Chemical Society (http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jceda8) and Chemistry Teacher International published for IUPAC (http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cti) focus on discipline specific issues relating to chemistry education, and their prominence in being associated with major societies in chemistry indicates the high status chemistry education and chemistry education research has attained with the family of chemistry sub-disciplines.
In an attempt to help students new to chemistry education research take some first steps in their research work, this editorial focuses on the important early stage of immersing in project work: deciding what it is you want to research. Other sources of information relating to project work include the associated editorials in this journal describing more fully other parts of conducting research ( Seery et al. , 2019 ), as well as thinking about how theses published as part of university studies compare to education research publications ( Lawrie et al. , 2020 ). These editorials should be useful to students in the planning and writing stages of their research work respectively and, like all articles published in this journal, are free to access. Guidance on completing a literature review in chemistry education research is available online ( Seery, 2017 ).
What do you want to find out? Defining your research question
The “good” news is that this initial experience is very common. The task at the beginning stage of your first project is to determine what general area you would like to research, and narrow this down iteratively until you decide on a particular question you would like to answer. We will go through this process below, but an important thing to keep in mind at this stage is that work on your first project is both about the research you will do and also what you learn about doing research. Choosing a topic of interest is important for your own motivation. But regardless of the topic, doing a project in this field will involve lots of learning about the research processes and this research field. These associated skills and knowledge will likely be of most benefit to you after you complete your dissertation and go on into a future career and further studies.
Deciding on your research topic
Choosing what you want to work on when you are not quite sure of the menu to select from is very difficult. Start by writing down what kinds of things interest you that could form general topics of study. You could structure these using the following prompts:
• What from your own learning experience was satisfactory or unsatisfactory? When did you feel like you really understood something, or when did you feel really lost? Sketch out some thoughts, and discuss with some classmates to see if they had similar experiences. The task is to identify particular topics in chemistry or particular approaches of teaching that emerge, and use those as a basis for narrowing your interest to a specific theme.
• What issues from the media are topical in relation to education? Perhaps there have been changes to assessment approaches in schools, or there is a focus on graduate employability? What issues relating to education are emerging in reaction to the impact of COVID-19? Is there something current that interests you that you would like to focus on?
• Are there societal issues that are important to you? Perhaps you would like to explore the experience or performance of particular groups within education, or look at historical data and research trends. You might wish to explore education policy and subsequent impact in chemistry education.
It is likely that several broad topics will emerge that will be of interest to you. But you only have one year and one project, so you will need to choose one! So before you choose, take a shortlist of about three broad topics that interest you and find out a little more about them. The aim here is to dip your toe in the water of these topics and get a feel for what kinds of things people do, and see which one piques your interest most, and which one has most potential for a meaningful and achievable research project.
To find out a little more, you should engage in preliminary reading. This is not a literature review – the task here is to find one or two recent articles associated with each topic. To achieve this, you could go directly to one of the journal pages linked above and type in some search terms. With each article of interest you retrieve, use the following prompts to guide your reading:
1. The introduction to the article usually sets the context of the research, with some general issues relating to the research in this topic, while the final section of the paper (“limitations” or “conclusions” sections) give some specific detail on what needs further study. Read over these sections: are the issues being discussed of interest to you?
2. The experimental or methods section of the article usually describes the sample used in the study. If you were to research in this area, can you see how questions you are interested in would translate to your setting? While we will discuss scope of research more carefully below, the task here is to put yourself in the moment of doing a research project to think: what would I do? And then ask; does that moment pique your interest?
3. The results and discussion section of the article describes data the researchers report and what they think it means in the wider context of the research area. Again, while the data that you get in your project will depend on what you set out to do, use this reading to see what kind of data is impressing you, and whether you find the discussion of interest.
This kind of “sampling” of the vast literature available is a little ad hoc , but it can be useful to help bring focus on the kinds of research that are feasible and help refine some conversations that you can have with your research supervisor. While embarking on a new project will always have a big “unknown” associated with it, your task is to become as familiar as possible with your chosen topic as you can in advance, so that you are making as informed a decision as possible about your research topic. Once you have – you are ready to continue your research!
From research topic to research question
While we don’t often explicitly state the research question in chemistry research, scientists do have an implicit sense that different questions lean on different areas of theory and require different methods to answer them. We can use some of this basis in translating the context to chemistry education research; namely that the research question and the underpinning theory are clearly interdependent, and the research question we ask will mandate the approaches that we take to answer it.
In fact, in (chemistry) education research, we are very explicit with research questions, and setting out the research question at the start of a study is a major component of the research process ( White, 2008 ). As you will find repeatedly in your project, all the components of a research process are interdependent, so that the research question will determine the methods that will determine the kinds of data you can get, which in turn determine the question you can answer. The research question determines what particular aspect within a general research topic you are going to consider. Blaikie (2000, p. 58) wrote (emphasis in original):
“In my view, formulating research questions is the most critical and, perhaps, the most difficult part of a research design… Establishing research questions makes it possible to select research strategies and methods with confidence. In other words, a research project is built on the foundation of research questions .”
So there is a lot of pressure on research questions! The good news is that while you do need to start writing down your research question near the beginning of the project, it will change during the early stages of scoping out projects when considering feasibility, and as you learn more from reading. It could change as a result of ethical considerations ( Taber, 2014 ). And it will probably change and be fine-tuned as you refine your instruments and embark on your study. So the first time you write out a research question will not be the last. But the act of writing it out, however bluntly at the start, helps set the direction of the project, indicates what methods are likely to be used in the project (those that can help answer the question), and keeps the project focussed when other tempting questions arise and threaten to steer you off-course. So put the kettle on, get out a pen and a lot of paper, and start drafting your first research question!
Defining your research question
To assist your thinking and guide you through this process, an example is used to show how this might happen in practice. In this example, a student has decided that they want to research something related to a general topic of work-experience in chemistry degree programmes. The student had previously completed some work experience in an industrial chemistry laboratory, and knows of peers who have completed it formally as part of their degree programme. The student's experience and anecdotal reports from peers are that this was a very valuable part of their undergraduate studies, and that they felt much more motivated when returning to study in formal teaching at university, as well as having a much clearer idea on their career aspirations after university.
Stage 1: what type of question do you want to answer?
Some foreshadowed questions that might emerge in early stages of this research design might include:
• What kinds of industrial experience options are available to chemistry students?
• What experiences are reported by students on industrial experience?
• Why do some students choose to take up industrial placements?
• How does a students’ perception of their career-related skills change as a result of industrial experience?
• How do students on industrial experience compare to students without such experience?
All of these questions – and you can probably think of many more – are specific to the general topic of industrial experience. But as they stand, they are too broad and need some focussing. To help, we will first think about the general kind of research we want to do ( White, 2008 ).
Types of research
A second broad area of research is explanatory research, which tends to answer questions that start with “how” or “why”. Explanatory research has less of a focus on the subject of the research, and more on the processes the subjects are engaged with, seeking to establish what structures led to observed outcomes so that reasons for them can be elucidated.
A third broad area of research is comparative research, which tends to compare observations or outcomes in two or more different scenarios, using the comparison to identify useful insights into the differences observed. Many people new to education research seek to focus on comparative questions, looking to answer the generic question of is “X” better than “Y”? This is naturally attractive, especially to those with a scientific background, but it is worthwhile being cautious in approaching comparative studies. Even in well-designed research scenarios where research does find that “X” is indeed better than “Y” (and designing those experimental research scenarios is fraught with difficulty in education studies), the question immediately turns to: “but why”? Having richer research about descriptions or explanations associated with one or both of the scenarios is necessary to begin to answer that question.
Let us think again about our foreshadowed questions in the context of general types of question. The aim here is to simply bundle together foreshadowed questions by question type, and using the question type, begin to focus a little more on the particular aspects of interest to us. The intention here is to begin to elaborate on what these general questions would involve in terms of research (beginning to consider feasibility), as well as the kinds of outcomes that might be determined (beginning to consider value of research).
The descriptive questions above could be further explored as follows:
• What kinds of industrial experience options are available to chemistry students? In answering this question, our research might begin to focus on describing the types of industrial experience that are available, their location, their length, placement in the curriculum, and perhaps draw data from a range of universities. In this first iteration, it is clear that this question will provide useful baseline data, but it is unlikely to yield interesting outcomes on its own.
• What experiences are reported by students on industrial experience? In answering this question, we are likely going to focus on interviewing students individually or in groups to find out their experience, guided by whatever particular focus we are interested in, such as questions about motivation, career awareness, learning from placement, etc. This research has the potential to uncover rich narratives informing our understanding of industrial placements from the student perspective.
The explanatory questions above can be further explored as follows:
• How does students’ perception of their career-related skills change as a result of industrial experience? In answering this question, our research would remain focussed on student reports of their experiences, but look at it in the context of their sense of career development, their awareness of development of such skills, or perhaps identifying commonalities that emerge across a cohort of students. This research has the potential to surface such issues and inform the support of career development activities.
• Why do some students choose to take up industrial placements? In answering this question, our research would likely involve finding out more about individual students’ choices. But it is likely to uncover rich seams that can be explored across cohorts – do particular types of students complete placements, or are there any barriers to identify regarding encouraging students to complete placements? “Why” questions tend to throw up a lot of follow-on questions, and their feasibility and scope need to be attended to carefully. But they can offer a lot of insight and power in understanding more deeply issues around particular educational approaches.
The comparative question above can be further explored as follows:
• How do students on industrial experience compare to students without such experience? In answering this question, research might compare educational outcomes or reports of educational experience of students who did and did not complete industrial experience, and draw some inference from that. This type of question is very common among novice researchers, keen to find out whether a particular approach is better or worse, but extreme caution is needed. There may be unobservable issues relating to students who choose particular options that result in other observable measures such as grades, and in uncovering any differences in comparing cohorts, care is needed that an incorrect inference is not made. Handle comparisons with caution!
At this stage, you should pause reading, and dwell on your research topic with the above considerations in mind. Write out some general research areas that have piqued your interest (the foreshadowed questions) and identify them as descriptive, explanatory, or comparative. Use those headline categories to tease out a little more what each question entails: what would research look like, who would it involve, and what information would be obtained (in general terms). From the list of questions you identify, prioritise them in terms of their interest to you. From the exercise above, I think that the “how” question is of most interest to me – I am an educator and therefore am keen to know how we can best support students’ return to studies after being away on placement. I want to know more about difficulties experienced in relation to chemistry concepts during that reimmersion process so that I can make changes and include supports for students. For your research area and your list of foreshadowed questions, you should aim to think about what more focussed topics interest and motivate you, and write out the reason why. This is important; writing it out helps to express your interest and motivation in tangible terms, as well as continuing the process of refining what exactly it is you want to research.
Once you have, we can begin the next stage of writing your research question which involves finding some more context about your research from the literature.
Stage 2: establishing the context for your research
Finding your feet, types of context.
Let's make some of this tangible. In focussing my foreshadowed questions, I have narrowed my interest to considering how students on work experience are aware of their career development, how they acknowledge skills gained, and are able to express that knowledge. Therefore I want to have some theoretical underpinnings to this – what existing work can I lean on that will allow me to further refine my question.
As an example of how reading some literature can help refine the question, consider the notes made about the following two articles.
• A 2017 article that discusses perceived employability among business graduates in an Australian and a UK university, with the latter incorporating work experience ( Jackson and Wilton, 2017 ): this study introduces me to the term “perceived employability”, the extent to which students believe they will be employed after graduation. It highlights the need to consider development of career awareness at the individual level. It discusses the benefits of work experience on perceived employability, although a minimum length is hinted at for this to be effective. It introduces (but does not measure) concepts of self-worth and confidence. Data to inform the paper is collected by a previously published survey instrument. Future work calls for similar studies in other disciplines.
• A 2017 article that discusses undergraduate perceptions of the skills gained from their chemistry degree in a UK university ( Galloway, 2017 ): this study reports on the career relevant skills undergraduate students wished to gain from their degree studies. This study informs us about the extent to which undergraduates are thinking about their career skills, with some comparison between students who were choosing to go on to a chemistry career and those who were considering some other career. It identifies career-related skills students wished to have more of in the chemistry curriculum. Most of the data is collected by a previously published survey. This work helps me locate my general reading in the context of chemistry.
Just considering these two articles and my foreshadowed question, it is possible to clarify the research question a little more. The first article gives some insight into some theoretical issues by introducing a construct of perceived employability – that is something that can be measured (thinking about how something can be measured is called operationalisation). This is related to concepts of self-worth and confidence (something that will seed further reading). Linking this with the second article, we can begin to relate it to chemistry; we can draw on a list of skills that are important to chemistry students (whether or not they intend to pursue chemistry careers), and the perceptions about how they are developed in an undergraduate context. Both articles provide some methodological insights – the use of established surveys to elicit student opinion, and the reporting of career-important skills from the perspective of professional and regulatory bodies for chemistry, as well as chemistry students.
Taking these two readings into account, we might further refine our question. The original foreshadowed question was:
“ How does students’ perception of their career-related skills change as a result of industrial experience? ”
If we wished to draw on the literature just cited, we could refine this to:
“ How does undergraduate chemistry students’ perceived employability and awareness of career-related skills gained change as a result of a year-long industrial placement? ”
This step in focussing is beginning to move the research question development into a phase where particular methods that will answer it begin to emerge. By changing the phrase “perception” to “perceived employability”, we are moving to a particular aspect of perception that could be measured, if we follow methods used in previous studies. We can relate this rather abstract term to the work in chemistry education by also incorporating some consideration of students’ awareness of skills reported to be important for chemistry students. We are also making the details of the study a little more specific; referring to undergraduate chemistry students and the length of the industrial placement. This question then is including:
– The focus of the research: perception of development of career skills.
– The subject of the research: undergraduate chemistry students on placement.
– The data likely to be collected: perceived employment and awareness of career related skills.
It is likely that as more reading is completed, some aspects of this question might change; it may become more refined or more limited in scope. It may change subject from looking at a whole cohort to just one or two individual student journeys. But as the question crystallises, so will the associated methodology and it is important in early readings not to be immediately swayed in one direction or another. Read as broadly as you can, looking at different methods and approaches, and find something that lines up with what it is you want to explore in more detail.
Stage 3: testing your research question
Personal biases.
Whatever we like to tell ourselves, there will always be personal bias. In my own research on learning in laboratories, I have a bias whereby I cannot imagine chemistry programmes without laboratory work ( Seery, 2020 ). If I were to engage in research that examined, for example, the replacement of laboratory work with virtual reality, my personal bias would be that I could not countenance that such an approach could replace the reality of laboratory work. This is a visceral reaction – it is grounded in emotion and personal experience, rather than research, because at the time of writing, little research on this topic exists. Therefore I would need to plan carefully any study that investigated the role of virtual reality in laboratory education to ensure that it was proofed from my own biases, and work hard to ensure that voices or results that challenged my bias were allowed to emerge. The point is that we all have biases, and they need to be openly acknowledged and continually aired. I suggest to my students that they write out their own biases related to their research early in their studies as a useful checkpoint. Any results that come in that agree with the tendency of a bias are scrutinised and challenged in detail. This can be more formally done by writing out a hypothesis, which is essentially a prediction or a preconception of what a finding might be. Hypotheses are just that – they need to be tested against evidence that is powerful enough to confirm or refute them.
Bias can also emerge in research questions. Clearly, our research question written in the format: “why are industrial placements so much better than a year of lecture courses?” is exposing the bias of the author plainly. Biases can be more subtle. Asking leading questions such as “what are the advantages of…” or “what additional benefits are there to…” are not quite as explicitly biased, but there is an implicit suggestion that there will be advantages and benefits. Your research question should not pre-empt the outcome; to do so negates the power of your research. Similarly, asking dichotomous questions (is placement or in-house lecturing best?) implies the assumption that one or the other is “best”, when the reality is that both may have distinct advantages and drawbacks, and a richer approach is to explore what each of those are.
Question scope
Feasibility relates to lots of aspects of the project. In our study on industrial experience, the question asks how something will change, and this immediately implies that we will at least find out what the situation was at the beginning of the placement and at some point during or after the placement. Will that be feasible? Researchers should ask themselves how they will access those they wish to research. This becomes a particular challenge if the intention is to research students based in a different institution. The question should also be reviewed to ensure that it is feasible to achieve an answer with the resources you have to hand. Asking for example, whether doing an industrial placement influences future career choices would be difficult to answer as it would necessitate tracking down a sufficient sample of people who had (and had not) completed placements, and finding a robust way of exploring the influence of placement on their career choice. This might be feasible, but not in the timeframe or with the budget you have assigned to you. Finally, feasibility in terms of what you intend to explore should be considered. In our example research question, we have used the term “perceived employability”, as this is defined and described in previous literature with an instrument that can elicit some value associated with it. Care is needed when writing questions to ensure that you are seeking to find something that can be measured.
Of course researchers will naturally over-extend their research intentions, primarily because that initial motivation they have tapped into will prompt an eagerness to find out as much as possible about their topic of study. One way of addressing this is to write out a list of questions that draw from the main research question, with each one addressing some particular aspect of the research question. For our main research question:
we could envisage some additional related questions:
(a) Are there differences between different types of placement?
(b) Are the observations linked to experience on placement or some other factors?
(c) What career development support did students get during placement?
(d) How did students’ subsequent career plans change as a result of placement?
And the list could go on (and on). Writing out a list of related questions allows you to elaborate on as many aspects of the main question as you can. The task now is to prioritise them. You may find that in prioritising them, one of these questions itself becomes your main question. Or that you will have a main question and a list of subsidiary questions. Subsidiary questions are those which relate to the main question but take a particular focus on some aspect of the research. A good subsidiary question to our main question is question (a), above. This will drill down into the data we collect in the main question and elicit more detail. Care should be taken when identifying subsidiary questions. Firstly, subsidiary questions need to be addressed in full and with the same consideration as the main questions. Research that reports subsidiary question findings that are vague or not fully answered is poor, and undermines the value and power of the findings from the main research questions. If you don’t think you can address it in the scope of your study, it is best to leave it out. Secondly, questions that broaden the scope of the study rather than lead to a deeper focus are not subsidiary questions but rather are ancillary questions. These are effectively new and additional questions to your main research, and it is unlikely that you will have the time or scope to consider them in this iteration. Question (d) is an example of an ancillary question.
Question structure
The length of a research question is the subject of much discussion, and in essence, your question needs to be as long as it needs to be, but no longer. Questions that are too brief will not provide sufficient context for the research, whereas those that are too long will likely confuse the reader as to what it is you are actually looking to do. New researchers tend to write overly long questions, and tactics to address this include thinking about whether the question includes too many aspects. Critiquing my own question, I would point out that I am asking two things in one question – change in perceived employability and change in awareness of career-related skills gained – and if I were to shorten it, I could refer to each of those aspects in subsidiary questions instead. This would clarify that there are two components to the research, and while related, each will have their own data collection requirements and analysis protocols.
Research questions should be written as clearly as possible. While we have mentioned issues relating to language to ensure it is understandable, language issues also need to be considered in our use of terms. Words such as “frequent” or “effective” or “successful” are open to interpretation, and are best avoided, using more specific terms instead ( Kane, 1984 ). The word “significant” in education research has a specific meaning derived from statistical testing, and should only be used in that context. Care is needed when referring to groups of people as well. Researching “working class” students’ experiences on industrial placement is problematic, as the term is vague and can be viewed as emotive. It is better to use terms that can be more easily defined and better reflect a cohort profile (for example, “first generation” refers to students who are the first in their family to attend university) or terms that relate to government classifications, such as particular postcodes assigned a socio-economic status based on income.
As well as clarity with language, research questions should aim to be as precise as possible. Vagueness in research questions relating to what is going to be answered or what the detail of the research is in terms of sample or focus can lead to vagueness in the research itself, as the researcher will not have a clear guide to keep them focussed during the research process. Check that your question and any subsidiary questions are focussed on researching a specific aspect within a defined group for a clear purpose.
Moving on from research question writing
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You may decide to culminate several semesters of research work by documenting your results in the form of an undergraduate thesis:
- For students who are members of the Schreyer Honors College (SHC), a thesis is required to graduate with distinction.
- For all other students, the Eberly College of Science offers a certificate via the Science Research Distinction (SCIRES) program .
Completing a research thesis indicates a high level of achievement, and the resulting distinction is an important addition to your CV. Details of the specific requirements and deadlines for these two approaches can be found at the SHC and SCIRES websites listed above.
From the perspective of the chemistry department, the requirements for an undergraduate research thesis in chemistry are the same for honors and non-honors students. Research in chemistry or a related area must be undertaken under the supervision of a thesis advisor (or co-advisor) who is a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry.
The thesis will be evaluated by a three-person committee consisting of the research advisor and at least two other faculty members. In the case of SHC theses, one of the committee members should be your honors advisor. At least two members of the committee must be from the tenure-track faculty; the third participant may be a non-tenure- track faculty member. When appropriate, participating faculty members may be from departments other than chemistry. Note that the chemistry requirements for thesis evaluation are more comprehensive than those of the SHC or the SCIRES programs. Students fulfilling the chemistry requirements will automatically fulfill the requirements of either of these two programs.
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Explore our collection of dissertations and master's theses from the Department of Chemistry below.
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2024 2024
Chemical Synthesis of Sensitive DNA , Komal Chillar
Small Fluorescent Glycoconjugates as Imaging Agents for GLUT Sugar Transporters , Adelina Oronova
SYNTHESIS OF CHLORINATED DEOXYGUANOSINE NUCLEOTIDES AT THE N2 CARBON TO PREVENT SUBSTITUTION ERRORS DURING THE CAPPING STEP FOR THE CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF LONG OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDES , J. Parker F. Harstad
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2023 2023
DETECTION AND MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF A HUMAN PROTEIN ASSOCIATED WITH CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES , Priyanka Dipak Kadav
EXPLORING TURN-ON PROBES FOR GLUTs TARGETING AND ADVANCING SAFETY EDUCATION IN THE CHEMICAL SCIENCES: A TWO-PART DISSERTATION , Monica Mame Soma Nyansa
MULTILEVEL COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE CATALYTIC MECHANISMS OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE-1 AND FAT MASS AND OBESITY-ASSOCIATED ENZYME , Ann Varghese
MULTISCALE MOLECULAR MODELING STUDIES OF THE DYNAMICS AND CATALYTIC MECHANISMS OF IRON(II)- AND ZINC(II)-DEPENDENT METALLOENZYMES , Sodiq O. Waheed
ORIGINS OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES IN NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER AND FLUORESCENT ANIMALS , Nastaran Khademimoshgenani
Small Molecules Targeting Fructose Transport , Nazar Gora
UHPLC/FT-MS NON-TARGETED SCREENING APPROACH FOR BIOMASS BURNING ORGANIC AEROSOL AND LIQUID SMOKE AS BIOMASS BURNING ORGANIC AEROSOL SURROGATE , D.M.R. Thusitha Dinusha Kumarihami Divisekara
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2022 2022
INTERFACIAL OXIDATION REACTIONS AND FILM NUCLEATION ON IRON SURFACES IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS USING SPECTROSCOPY AT THE LIQUID/SOLID AND GAS/SOLID INTERFACE , Adambarage Chathura de Alwis
ISOLATION AND CHROMATOGRAPHIC SEPARATION OF CYTOTOXIC PLANT COMPOUNDS , Michael C. Hromada
ISOLATION, PURIFICATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEW MANNOSE-BINDING PLANT LECTIN THAT RECOGNIZES FUNGAL ANTIGENS , Jessica C. Krycia
MULTILEVEL COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE DYNAMICS AND REACTION MECHANISMS OF NON-HEME IRON AND 2-OXOGLUTARATE DEPENDENT ENZYMES , Shobhit Sanjeev Chaturvedi
NON-CHROMATOGRAPHIC OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PURIFICATION AND AUTOMATED POLYETHYLENEGLYCOL SYNTHESIS , Dhananjani N. A. M. Eriyagama
STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF A NEW CYTOLYSIN , Jared L. Edwards
SYNTHESIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF FLUORESCENT CARBON DOTS FOR SENSING AND BIOIMAGING APPLICATIONS , Parya Siahcheshm
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2021 2021
BASE-LABILE PROTECTING GROUPS FOR STEPWISE PEG SYNTHESIS , Logan D. Mikesell
COBALT, MOLYBDENUM, AND NICKEL COMPLEXES, NATURAL ZEOLITES, EPOXIDATION, AND FREE RADICAL REACTIONS , Nicholas K. Newberry
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR SENSING pH, HYPOXIA AND PEROXYNITRITE , Shulin Wan
DETERMINATION OF MOLECULAR MARKERS OF VACCINIUM BERRY STANDARD REFERENCE MATERIALS THROUGH DIFFERENTIAL ANALYSIS WITH ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION LC/MS , Abby Mikolitis
EXPLORING GLUT5 TARGETING FOR CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY , Avik Ghosh
High-resolution molecular characterization of complex environmental mixtures: Aquatic dissolved organic matter and wildfire-influenced aerosol , Amna Ijaz
INVESTIGATING REDOX CHEMISTRY OF GRAPHITE, IRON OXIDE & IRON SURFACES , Mikhail Trought
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2020 2020
EXPLORING SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY OF FRUCTOSE TRANSPORTERS EN ROUTE TO GLUT SPECIFIC PROBES FOR BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS , Vagarshak Vigenovich Begoyan
Macromolecular strategies for discovering disease-related proteins and new therapeutic agents , Christina Welch
RATIOMETRIC NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR THE SENSITIVE DETECTION OF INTRACELLULAR pH AND BIO-THIOLS IN LIVE CELLS , Shuai Xia
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2019 2019
Characterizing the physicochemical properties of TDP-43 protein and Acetylated Amyloid β peptides to discern its role in neurodegenerative diseases , Rashmi Adhikari
EXTREME MOLECULAR DIVERSITY IN BIOMASS BURNING ATMOSPHERIC ORGANIC AEROSOL OBSERVED THROUGH ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY , Matthew Brege
METHOD CONSIDERATIONS FOR COMPOUND IDENTIFICATION IN COMPLEX MIXTURES USING ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY , Tyler Leverton
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF FREE TROPOSPHERIC ORGANIC AEROSOL AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR MOLECULAR FORMULA ASSIGNMENT , Simeon Schum
NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR SENSITIVE DETERMINATION OF LYSOSOMAL & MITOCHONDRIAL pH IN LIVE CELLS , Wafa Mazi
SMALL MOLECULE-BASED FLUORESCENT MOLECULAR PROBES FOR FACILITATING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: RATIONAL DESIGN AND BIOIMAGING APPLICATIONS , Xin Yan
Synthesis of Oligodeoxynucleotides Containing Sensitive Electrophiles , Shahien Shahsavari
TOWARDS THE DISCOVERY OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDE CROSS-LINKING AGENTS , Bhaskar Halami
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2018 2018
DEVELOPING NOVEL MOLECULAR IMAGING AGENTS FOR SHEDDING LIGHT ON OXIDATIVE STRESS , Shanshan Hou
DEVELOPMENT OF NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR MONITORING LYSOSOMAL pH CHANGES , Jianheng Bi
DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF RUPTURE FORCE OF SINGLE TRIAZOLE MOLECULE BY ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE AND SOLID PHASE SYNTHESIS OF MONODISPERSE POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS , Ashok Khanal
NOVEL FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR VISUALIZATION OF pH CHANGES AND Zn (Ⅱ) IONS IN LIVE CELLS , Mingxi Fang
PHYSICOCHEMICAL, SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES, AND DIFFUSION MECHANISMS OF SMALL HYDROCARBON MOLECULES IN MOF-74-MG/ZN: A QUANTUM CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION , Gemechis Degaga
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2017 2017
DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF HISTONE MUTATIONS AND POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS ON NUCLEOSOME STRUCTURE VIA ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY , Chelsea Nikula
Fluorescent Probe Development for Fructose Specific Transporters in Cancer , Joseph Fedie
GLYCOBIOLOGICAL STUDIES THAT CAN HELP THYROID CANCER DETECTION AND THERAPY , Ni Fan
Heterologous Expression and Purification of Full-Length Human Polybromo-1 Protein , Sarah Hopson
NOVEL BIOCOMPOSITES AND NANOFIBERS BASED ON MODIFIED BIOMASS MATERIALS TO FACILITATE GREENER APPLICATIONS , Soha Albukhari
Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2016 2016
Effect of disulfide bond scrambling on protein stability, aggregation, and cytotoxicity , Colina Dutta
FORMATION AND DEACTIVATION OF TRIMETHYLALUMINUM IN AIR CONDITIONER SIMULATOR AND MCM-41 SUPPORTED SILVER NANOPARTICLES FOR OXIDATION OF OLEFINS , Zhichao Chen
NEAR-INFRARED WATER-SOLUBLE FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR THE DETECTION OF LYSOSOMAL pH AND Zn (II) IONS , Cong Li
Novel Carbohydrate-Dependent Biological Properties of Human Health Related Lectins and Glycoconjugates , Melanie Talaga
SENSING AND MAPPING OF SURFACE HYDROPHOBICITY OF PROTEINS BY FLUORESCENT PROBES , Nethaniah Dorh
THE EFFECT OF POSTTRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS ON PROTEIN AGGREGATION, MORPHOLOGY, AND TOXICITY , Mu Yang
Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS: PART A. TEMPERATURE-RESPONSIVE POLYMERS AND DRUG DELIVERY AND PART B. POLYMER MODIFICATION OF FISH SCALE AND THEIR NANO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES , Xu Xiang
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF BODIPY-BASED FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR SENSING AND IMAGING OF CYANIDE, Zn (II) IONS, LYSOSOMAL pH AND CANCER CELLS , Jingtuo Zhang
Extracellular expression of alkaline phytase in Pichia pastoris and Development of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy methods for structural investigation of inositol polyphosphates , Sasha Teymorian
ON THE PROTECTIVE PROPERTIES OF GLYCINE BASED OSMOLYTES IN A THIOL REDUCING ENVIRONMENT , John Michael Hausman
SYNTHETIC OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE PURIFICATION VIA CATCHING BY POLYMERIZATION , Suntara Fueangfung
Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014
DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATIONS OF FLUORESCENT AND ELECTROCHEMICAL PROBES , Giri K. Vegesna
EVOLUTION OF SELECTED ISOPRENE OXIDATION PRODUCTS IN DARK AQUEOUS AMMONIUM SULFATE , D.M. Ashraf Ul Habib
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF ATMOSPHERIC ORGANIC MATTER IN BIOGENIC SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL, AMBIENT AEROSOL AND CLOUDS , Yunzhu Zhao
NON-CHROMATOGRAPHIC PURIFICATION OF SYNTHETIC BIO-OLIGOMERS , Durga Prasad Pokharel
PURIFICATION AND CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROPERTIES OF TWO NEW PLANT PROTEINS , Robert K. Brown
Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
ACETYL RADICAL IN TOBACCO SMOKE: DETECTION, QUANTIFICATION AND SIMULATION , Na Hu
CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO NOVEL MONOCOT MANNOSE BINDING LECTINS PURIFIED BY ‘CAPTURE AND RELEASE’ METHOD , Ashli L. Fueri
Development and characterization of fluorescent pH sensors based on porous silica and hydrogel support matrices , Qili Hu
Enhancement of heterologous expression of alkaline phytase in Pichia pastors , Mimi Yang
Modern Computational Chemistry Methods for Prediction of Ground- and Excited-State Properties in Open-Shell Systems , Nina Tyminska
Oligodeoxynucleotide synthesis using protecting groups and a linker cleavable under non-nucleophilic conditions , Xi Lin
STUDIES OF FUNCTIONALIZED NANOPARTICLES FOR SMART SELF-ASSEMBLY AND AS CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY , Xiaochu Ding
THERMORESPONSIVE PROPERTIES OF GOLD HYBRID NANOPARTICLES OF POLY(DI(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) METHYL ETHER METHACRYLATE) (PDEGMA) AND ITS BLOCK COPOLYMERS WITH DIFFERENT ANCHORING REGIMES , Martha Juliana Barajas Meneses
TUNING FLUORESCENT PROBES FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS , Nazmiye Bihter Yapici
Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012
Biological materials : Part A. tuning LCST of raft copolymers and gold/copolymer hybrid nanoparticles and Part B. biobased nanomaterials , Ning Chen
Characterization of water-soluble organic compounds in ambient aerosol using ultrahigh-resolution elctrospray ionization fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. , Parichehr Saranjampour
COORDINATION CHEMISTRY OF BIS(BENZYL)PHOSPHINATE , John S. Maass
DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL SYNTHETIC ANTIOXIDANTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF OXIDATIVE STRESS RELATED DISEASES , Srinivas Rao Mandalapu
Indole based antioxidants for the treatment of ischemia reperfusion injury , Andrew Chapp
Performance evaluation and characterization of symmetric capacitors with carbon black, and asymmetric capacitors using a carbon foam supported nickel electrode , JinJin Wang
Soft Lewis acid catalyzed cycloisomerization of oxo-alkynes and enynes , Zezhou Wang
Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011
Multimetallic complexes based on phosphine- and phosphine oxide- appended p -hydroquinones , Louis R. Pignotti
Performance evaluation of a novel asymmetric capacitor using a light-weight, carbon foam supported nickel electrode , Padmanaban Sasthan Kuttipillai
Structural characterization of water-soluble atmospheric organic matter by ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry , Jeffrey P. LeClair
Syntheses and structures of molybdenum and tungsten complexes capable of epoxidaton and copper coordination polymers and dendrimers , Linsheng Feng
Synthesis of chiral ferrosalen ligands and their applications in asymmetric catalysis , Xiang Zhang
Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010
Syntheses and characterization of monomeric Mo(VI) complexes with bidentate phosphine oxide ligands and dimeric and tetrameric Mo(V) clusters with benzoic acid and phosphinic acid derivatives, containing MoO 2 , Mo 2 O 2 ( μ -O) 2 and Mo 4 O 4 ( μ 3 -O) 4 , Soumyashree Sreehari
Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009
Molecular interaction between perthiolated [beta]-cyclodextrin (CD) and the guests molecules adamantaneacetic acid (AD) and ferroceneacetic acid (FC); and the effect of the interaction on the electron transition of CD anchored particles , Ming Ning
Reports/Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005
Sulfoxides as an intramolecular sulfenylating agent for indoles and diverse applications of the sulfide-sulfoxide redox cycle in organic chemistry , Parag V. Jog
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The Harvard University Archives ’ collection of theses, dissertations, and prize papers document the wide range of academic research undertaken by Harvard students over the course of the University’s history.
Beyond their value as pieces of original research, these collections document the history of American higher education, chronicling both the growth of Harvard as a major research institution as well as the development of numerous academic fields. They are also an important source of biographical information, offering insight into the academic careers of the authors.
Spanning from the ‘theses and quaestiones’ of the 17th and 18th centuries to the current yearly output of student research, they include both the first Harvard Ph.D. dissertation (by William Byerly, Ph.D . 1873) and the dissertation of the first woman to earn a doctorate from Harvard ( Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson , Ed.D. 1922).
Other highlights include:
- The collection of Mathematical theses, 1782-1839
- The 1895 Ph.D. dissertation of W.E.B. Du Bois, The suppression of the African slave trade in the United States, 1638-1871
- Ph.D. dissertations of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Ph.D. 1925) and physicist John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (Ph.D. 1922)
- Undergraduate honors theses of novelist John Updike (A.B. 1954), filmmaker Terrence Malick (A.B. 1966), and U.S. poet laureate Tracy Smith (A.B. 1994)
- Undergraduate prize papers and dissertations of philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson (A.B. 1821), George Santayana (Ph.D. 1889), and W.V. Quine (Ph.D. 1932)
- Undergraduate honors theses of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (A.B. 1940) and Chief Justice John Roberts (A.B. 1976)
What does a prize-winning thesis look like?
If you're a Harvard undergraduate writing your own thesis, it can be helpful to review recent prize-winning theses. The Harvard University Archives has made available for digital lending all of the Thomas Hoopes Prize winners from the 2019-2021 academic years.
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The following information is provided to assist Chemistry graduate students as they prepare their theses. If graduate students have any questions that are not answered by this guide, they should email the Chemistry Education Office (questions about department policies) or MIT Libraries (for questions about thesis formatting, etc.)
Degree candidates must fill out the Degree Application via WebSIS at the start of the term. Important dates and deadlines (including late fees) for the upcoming academic year are listed below. It is strongly advised that degree candidates apply for the degree list even if there is uncertainty about completing the thesis defense and submission by the deadline, as there are no penalties for being removed from the degree list.
Students must successfully complete the thesis defense before submitting their final, signed thesis.
**Please note that the Specifications for Thesis Preparation were updated in November 2022. Please make sure you use these new guidelines.**
Important Dates & Deadlines
May 2024 degree list.
- Degree Application Deadline: February 9, 2024 ($50 late fee if submitted after this date, $85 late fee if submitted after April 12, 2024)
- Thesis Title Deadline: April 12, 2024 ($85 late fee if submitted after this date. If your thesis title is not finalized by this date, please enter your current working title and the final title can be updated later)
- Thesis Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024
- Last day of work in the lab: on or before May 29, 2024. If you plan to end your RA appointment earlier than May 29, 2024, please contact Jennifer to review your timeline.
- Your degree will officially be conferred by MIT on May 30, 2024
- Information about the MIT Health Plan and graduation will be available online here.
September 2024 Degree List
- Degree Application Deadline: June 14, 2024 ($50 late fee if submitted after this date, $85 late fee if submitted after July 21, 2024)
- Thesis Title Deadline:July 19, 2024 ($85 late fee if submitted after this date. If your thesis title is not finalized by this date, please enter your current working title and the final title can be updated later)
- Thesis Submission Deadline: August 16, 2024
- Last day of work in the lab: on or before August 31, 2024. If you plan to end your RA appointment earlier than August 31st, please contact Jennifer to review your timeline.
- Your degree will officially be conferred by MIT on September 18, 2024
February 2025 Degree List
- Degree Application Deadline: September 6, 2024 ($50 late fee if submitted after this date, $85 late fee if submitted after December 13, 2024)
- Thesis Title Deadline: December 13, 2024 ($85 late fee if submitted after this date. If your thesis title is not finalized by this date, please enter your current working title and the final title can be updated later)
- Thesis Submission Deadline: January 17, 2025
- Last day of work in the lab: on or before January 15, 2025. If you plan to end your RA appointment earlier than January 15th, please contact Jennifer to review your timeline.
- Your degree will officially be conferred by MIT on February 19, 2025
May 2025 Degree List
- Degree Application Deadline:February 7, 2025 ($50 late fee if submitted after this date, $85 late fee if submitted after April 11, 2025)
- Thesis Title Deadline: April 11, 2025 ($85 late fee if submitted after this date. If your thesis title is not finalized by this date, please enter your current working title and the final title can be updated later)
- Thesis Submission Deadline: May 9, 2025
- Last day of work in the lab: on or before May 28, 2025. If you plan to end your RA appointment earlier than May 28th, please contact Jennifer to review your timeline.
- Your degree will officially be conferred by MIT on May 29, 2025
Scheduling your Thesis Defense
All PhD candidates must have a Thesis Defense. As soon as your defense is finalized, please email the Chemistry Education Office with the date, time, location, and thesis title . Thesis defenses are strongly encouraged to be in-person. If there are questions or concerns about an in-person defense, please reach out to Jennifer Weisman. When thesis defenses are on campus, we recommend reserving a room once the defense date is finalized, student can reserve department rooms through the online scheduling system or request a classroom via this form .
Degree candidates should provide their advisor with a copy of the thesis at least two weeks before the defense and provide their thesis committee chair and member with a copy at least one week before the defense. However, degree candidates should talk with their advisor, committee chair, and committee member to find out if they need the thesis further in advance or if there are preferred formats. Degree candidates should allow time in between their thesis defense and the submission deadline to make edits and submit the final copies.
Please note that most receiving a PhD degree are required to present a seminar as part of the thesis defense. This seminar is open to the department. The degree candidate is responsible for providing the Chemistry Education Office with information about their thesis defense at least two weeks ahead of time. Following the seminar, the candidate will meet privately with the thesis committee.
Thesis Formatting
The Institute has very specific requirements for thesis preparation, which were updated in November 2022. Specifications for Thesis Preparation is available on the library’s website and should be read very carefully. The MIT Thesis FAQ may answer additional questions and a helpful checklist is also provided. The specifications also include information about copyright and use of previously published material in a thesis . Do not rely on any templates or prior theses from your research group – they may not reflect the most current guidelines. We have highlighted some especially important points below.
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Title page & committee signature page.
- The title page of the first copy will be digitally signed by the author, advisor, and Professor Adam Willard. The title page should contain the title, name of the author, previous degrees, the degree(s) to be awarded at MIT, the date the degree(s) will be conferred (May, September, or February only), copyright notice, and appropriate names and signatures. Degrees are awarded in Chemistry, regardless of your specific research area. Regardless of when you defend or submit your thesis, the date of degree conferral must be May/June, September, or February.
- As noted above, the title page will be signed by you, your advisor, and Professor Willard. You do not need to have Professor Willard digitally sign the thesis before you submit it, we will arrange to have him sign it. If your advisor has a title (ex., Firmenich Professor of Chemistry) it should also be included under their name. If you are not sure if they have a title, you can consult the Faculty Directory . Professor Willard should have the following listed under his name, on two separate lines: Professor of Chemistry; Graduate Officer
- Each student should place the appropriate copyright notice on the thesis title page. Copyright notice consists of four elements: the symbol “c” with a circle around it © and/or the word “copyright”; the year of publication (the year in which the degree is to be awarded); the name of the copyright owner; the words “All rights reserved” or your chosen Creative Commons license. All theses should have the following legend statement exactly: The author hereby grants to MIT a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license to exercise any and all rights under copyright, including to reproduce, preserve, distribute and publicly display copies of the thesis, or release the thesis under an open-access license. Please carefully review the copyright information to determine the appropriate copyright ownership.
- The date under Signature of Author should be the date the final thesis is signed and submitted to the department.
- The title page is always considered to be page 1, and every page must be included in the count regardless of whether a number would be physically printed on a page. We recommend that you do not include the page number on the title page.
- There is also a signature page that will be digitally signed by your entire thesis committee. Your advisor will digitally sign your thesis twice, on the title page and signature page. The signature page is right after the title page.
- More details about digital signatures are provided below.
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Final thesis submission, general submission process.
Please carefully review the details below, including the file naming format . There are two steps to the final submissions process:
1. Submit the following documents to the Department of Chemistry:
- An electronic copy of your thesis in PDF/A-1 format (with no signatures)
- A PDF of the digitally signed title page and committee signature page (using DocuSign to obtain signatures)
Please send an email to your advisor, Jennifer Weisman, and William McCoy, which includes the 2 PDFs above and the following text:
“Dear Professor/Dr X: Attached is the final version of my thesis. Please use reply-all to this message to indicate your acceptance of my thesis document and your recommendation for certification by my department.”
**Note: if your thesis document is too large to send via email, your email can include a link to access the document via Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.**
2. Submit your thesis information to MIT Libraries here . Choose to opt-in or opt-out of ProQuest license and publication. Include the same copyright and license information that is on your thesis title page. Note: this does not involve submitting your actual thesis.
Details for Thesis Submission Process
- After the defense, the student and thesis committee reach agreement on the final thesis document.
- Students should follow the format specifications as stated in the Specifications for Thesis Preparation . Do not print or physically sign pages.
- Students will have the thesis signed electronically through DocuSign. This process is described in detail in the section below.
- The title page is always considered to be page 1, and every page must be included in the count regardless of whether a number is physically printed on a page. The entire thesis (including title page, prefatory material, illustrations, and all text and appendices) must be paginated in one consecutive numbering sequence. Your committee signature page should be page 2. Please see the Sample Title Page and committee signature page for reference.
- You will still include the title page and committee signature page in the full thesis PDF, they just won’t have any signatures.
- The digitally signed title page and committee signature pages should be in one PDF, separate from the thesis document. This avoids a DocuSign tag at the top of each page of the full thesis. Please use the following naming convention: authorLastName-kerb-degree-dept-year-sig.pdf (ex., montgomery-mssimon-phd-chemistry-2021-sig.pdf).
- Students should save their final thesis document as a PDF using the following file naming convention: authorLastName-kerb-degree-dept-year-thesis .pdf (ex., montgomery-mssimon-phd-chemistry-2021-thesis.pdf).
- Students should not deposit the PDF of their thesis via the Libraries Library’s voluntary submission portal.
- Please send an email to your advisor, Jennifer, and William which includes the final thesis document and file with the digitally signed title/committee signature pages with the following text:
Please also complete the MIT Doctoral Student Exit Survey and your Laboratory Safety Clearance Form .
Digital Signatures
Please see here for a full guide (with screenshots) to using DocuSign to obtain digital signatures
Required Signatures:
These should be everyone’s uploaded digital signatures in their own handwriting, not one of the pre-formatted signatures created by DocuSign.
- Your signature on the thesis title page
- Your advisor’s signature on both the title page and committee signature page
- Your thesis committee chair’s and member’s signatures on the committee signature page
- You do not need to have Adam Willard sign your title page, the Chemistry Education Office will take care of that
- Full thesis with no signatures (including unsigned title page and thesis committee signature page)
- Title page and committee signature page with signatures via DocuSign
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Thesis Hold Requests
Details about requesting a thesis hold are available here and the requests are made to different offices based on the type of request.
Written notification of patent holds and other restrictions must reach the Institute Archives before the thesis in question is received, as under normal circumstances, all theses are open and available for public inspection once they have been received by the Institute Archives.
Graduate Student Exit Interviews
In order to best serve the educational, scientific, and social needs of graduate students in the Chemistry Department, it is critically important that Departmental leadership be appropriately informed of issues of importance to graduate students, ideally on an ongoing basis. Graduate student exit interviews provide information that alert the Department to acute issues that affect graduate students and provide data for longitudinal assessments of graduate student experience within the program.Graduate exit interviews are administered to all graduate students departing the Chemistry Department. The exit interview applies equally to graduate students departing with completed degrees (Ph.D. and M.S.) and without degrees.
- Graduating students will be sent a list of interview questions by the Chemistry Education Office when the student joins the degree list. Instructions about scheduling a time for the in-person or virtual discussion will be included with other informational correspondence from the Chemistry Education Office regarding degree completion. Graduating students will perform their exit interview after the thesis defense so as to avoid making the interview an additional burden.
- For students departing the program without a degree, the interview questions and instructions for scheduling an in-person discussion will be sent by the Chemistry Education Office at the point in time that a date for termination of their appointment in Chemistry is determined.
- For the majority of departing students, this interview coincides with the end of the semester, but a rolling schedule of surveys is anticipated.
Postdoctoral/Research Specialist Appointments
If you plan to transition to a postdoctoral/research specialist appointment within the Department of Chemistry at MIT, please contact Jennifer Weisman and Chemistry HR as soon as possible. Your final signed thesis must be submitted before a postdoc appointment can start. If you are an international student, it is extremely important that you start this process early to allow sufficient timing for visa processing. In addition to talking with Jennifer and HR, please consult with the International Students Office .
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Organic Chemistry Dissertation Topics
- Infrared spectroscopy is used to detect chemical molecules
- Discuss the chemical makeup of pain relievers
- What causes aromatic compounds to be nonreactive?
- Determine the variables that drive proton chemical changes
- The composition, application, and impact of added polymers or plastics
- Chemical synthesis is based on carbon-carbon bond formation processes
- Developing novel ways for producing chiral compounds
- Investigating the structure and reactivity of carbon nanotubes
- Metal complexes containing organometallic ligands are being studied
- Improving the thermal stability of benzene derivatives
- Investigating novel approaches to controlling the stereochemistry of chemical reactions
- Investigation of the role of enzymes in organic synthesis
- Developing innovative techniques to overcome drug resistance
- Creating new techniques for identifying explosive residues
- The investigation of the behaviour of organometallic compounds in biological systems
Inorganic Chemistry Dissertation Topics
- The health consequences of various substances
- Discuss in depth the chemical processes that result in sapphire production
- Introduction to the chemistry of sulphuric acid
- Discuss how silicon dioxide may be used in solar cells
- What exactly do you mean by orbital hybridization in molecules?
- Discuss the chemical structure of hard and soft acids
- What exactly do you mean by Crystal Field Theory?
- Steel vs iron malleability: A comparison
- What do you mean by the Multiple Proportions Law?
- Give instances of Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures
- Understanding Lewis Structures as well as Electron Dot Models
- How does a gemstone’s chemical structure affect its colour?
- What roles do point groups play in inorganic chemistry?
- How can molecular symmetry predict a molecule’s chemical properties?
- What is the most efficient method of producing synthetic diamonds?
Chemical Engineering Dissertation Topics
- Describe the role of biofuel in rocket fuel
- What exactly do you mean by microfluidics?
- Explain the wastewater treatment process
- Explain in detail the rare earth extractions
- What do you mean by reducing NOx emissions?
- What exactly do you mean by molecular dynamics and simulation?
- What exactly do you mean by simulation of density functional theory?
- What exactly do you mean by Nano filters, and how do they work?
- Discuss how coal and iron ore slimes are processed
- Explain how photocatalysis works in a 3D printer
- Explain the similarities and differences between rocket fuel and biofuels
- Describe molecular dynamics and simulation
- What exactly are nanofiltration systems, and how do they function?
- Explain the density functional theory simulation
- Analyze the processing of iron and coal slimes
Physical Chemistry Dissertation Topics
- When does a collision not result in a response?
- Examine harmonic and anharmonic oscillators
- Define the energies of successive ionization
- How can intermolecular forces influence a substance’s melting point?
- Why is the Earth considered a closed thermodynamic system?
- Explain how to utilize the mean bond enthalpy
- Reasons why molecules with polar connections may not have a persistent dipole
- What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and chemistry?
- What exactly do you mean by vibrational spectroscopy?
- Examine the similarities and differences between harmonic and anharmonic oscillators
- What exactly do you mean by multielectron atoms?
- In basic terms, discuss the elements of heteroatomic. Bonding between chemicals
- Provide a thorough examination of the Schrodinger Equation
- Describe the physical and chemical characteristics of the gas
- Explain the process of water expansion during the freezing process
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Biochemistry Dissertation Topics
- Evaluate the effect of PH on the plants
- Describe in detail cell metabolic processes. Define the structure of proteins and their involvement in chemical and physiological changes in the living organism
- Explain the process of fatty acid metabolism in the human body
- Explain the proliferation and repair of DNA
- Examine the structure and function of carbohydrates in the living organism
- Provide an in-depth analysis of the composition and function of nucleic acids
- Explain some of the unique characteristics of water
- Discuss the roles of lipids in biological systems
- Explain how the tea brewing process may be improved
- Discuss the significance of biochemistry in the human immune system
Environmental Chemistry Dissertation Topics
- What are the chemical reactions and compositions responsible for cloud formation?
- Explain the chemical reactions that result in the creation of pearls
- How industrial activities and acid rains are correlated with each other?
- What lessons can one learn from ecological disasters such as Chornobyl and Fukushima?
- Building green energy and its scope that lies in future
- Purification of the tap water through the application of chlorine
- How do the chemical changes in the atmosphere result in global warming?
- What are the adverse results of deep-sea mining?
- Discuss the contamination risks of groundwater in developing economies
- Plastic packaging and its impact on the overall quality of food we consume
Analytical Chemistry Dissertation Topics
- What exactly do you mean by Chemical Equilibrium?
- Describe some of the most effective electro-analytical procedures
- What are the advantages of the isomerism framework?
- Name a few of the most effective electrochemical applications
- Develop the overall idea of Soda Industrial Quality Assurance
- Examine the evolution of spectroscopic applications
- What exactly do you mean by Electrodes and Potentiometry?
- Make a comparison of the vitamin pills
- Discuss with examples the characteristics of acid-base titrations
- Sustainable development and analytical chemistry
- Methods and best practices for atomic absorption spectroscopy
- In Ibuprofen use, analytical chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry.
- UV protectors: analytical chemistry and the cosmetics sector
- What happens when food molecules interact with one another?
- How to make new compounds or enhance old ones
Computational Chemistry Dissertation Topics
- Discuss the evolution of chemical sensors in depth
- What are the primary advantages of dye-sensitized solar cells?
- Investigate the hydrogen bonding simulation process in depth
- What exactly do you mean by metal oxide nanoparticles?
- Explain in detail the heterogeneous catalytic CO2 to the CH3OH conversion process
- Energy surfaces are mathematical functions that provide a molecule with a function based on its geometry: Elaborate
- What exactly do you mean by Coupled Cluster Theory?
- Explain how NBO, or natural bond orbitals, produce the highest electron density
Nuclear Chemistry Dissertation Topics
- What are the most prevalent applications for radioactive elements?
- How do you determine the half-life of an element?
- Hydrogen’s importance in nuclear fusion
- Compare the effectiveness of various extraction processes
- The discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel
- What biological uses does radiochemistry have?
- Water and radioactive elements interact
- What role does nuclear chemistry have in medicine?
- How do elements transform during nuclear fission?
- Irradiation can be used to eliminate hazardous chemical molecules
- The negative consequences of ionizing radiation vs non-ionizing radiation
- What role does chemosensory play in radiation chemistry?
Green Chemistry Dissertation Topics
- Discuss the twelve green chemistry concepts
- Discuss the most important challenges in green chemistry nowadays
- Compare the efficiency of various solar cell materials
- What are the most efficient techniques to extract and utilize key materials sustainably?
- Electrocatalysis is a method of producing and using fuels
- Will growing meat become a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional farming?
- Innovative pesticide-free agriculture methods
- What are the different kinds of bio-based sustainable feedstocks?
- How do metathesis reactions aid in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Explore the most effective methods to reduce carbon pollution
Common Chemistry Dissertation Topics
- The Evolution of Chemical Warfare What is the next step?
- How did Chemistry become one of the most dangerous scientific professions?
- Discuss the role of chemicals in political assassinations throughout history
- The history of the use of chemistry as a weapon in genocide during the Holocaust
- The relevance of human rights and the notion of lethal injection
- What role does chemistry play in murder or euthanasia?
- How might chemistry aid in detecting and differentiating natural and manufactured diseases?
- Why is the use of petroleum products regarded as hazardous?
- What are the generational consequences of herbicide exposure?
- How is pollution a significantly greater threat than melting ice caps?
- Investigating the four distinct states of matter: Why is plasma so rare on Earth?
- Why is lithium considered one of the most successful battery materials?
- Examine the impact of PH on planets
- Describe the formation of synthetic diamonds
- Discuss how to maximize tea brewing
- Explain how heavy metals in plants are identified
- Examine the air that people breathe
- Why is it risky to use petroleum products?
- Describe how chemistry might help indoor plants
- Explain how to clean oil successfully
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Shenlong Wang wins NSF CAREER award to create AI systems that can imagine hypothetical scenarios in the physical world
5/16/2024 Jenny Applequist
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Counterfactual scenarios will be simulated to predict the outcomes of different courses of action.
Computer Science and Coordinated Science Lab professor Shenlong Wang at The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to support the creation of AI systems that can make digital twins—that is, digital replicas—of the physical world that are capable of simulating counterfactual “what-if” scenarios, enabling users to assess the potential outcomes of actions if they are carried out in the real world.
To do so, he will need to create digital replicas with a greater “understanding” of the world than current systems, making it possible for them to “imagine” unseen scenarios rather than just represent things they’ve already observed.
Wang explained that the developed tools will be able to produce high-quality imagery with applications in the entertainment industry and in virtual and augmented reality—but, more importantly, that they could also have a “very helpful and very profound impact in the real world.”
He said the “twin worlds” will act like the real world, providing realistic observations. “The agent can then use these realistic observations to take multiple different actions and then return it to the twin world, and then the twin world can generate multiple expected outcomes. Then, we can decide which outcome we want. And then we can transfer this insight to help the agent make the right decision in the real world.”
There are multiple reasons why such a capability would be highly desirable. It would allow users to try out dangerous actions—say, new surgical techniques—in a risk-free way. It would make it possible to see what happens in scenarios for which little data are available, such as situations that are rare in real life—for example, what happens to a city’s water distribution infrastructure during a 100-year flood—without having to wait for such scenarios to happen in reality. Further, because virtual time can run much faster than real-time, models can be run forward to predict the long-term consequences of actions, even decades into the future.
“If computers can help us to make more informed predictions, we essentially have a time machine,” said Wang. “We might be able to see what’s going on in the next century!”
This diagram shows how hypothetical scenarios can be run through the world’s digital twin (right side), allowing users to “rehearse” multiple proposed solutions in the virtual world before choosing one to apply in the real world (left side).
Wang will consider two use cases in the project. One of them is autonomous driving, which is familiar territory for him. Before joining Illinois' faculty, he worked as a research scientist at Uber, building simulators to test self-driving vehicles’ safety. His second use case will be climate risk assessment for agriculture. For that, the shorter-term goal is to determine things like carbon emission levels based on ordinary mobile phone photographs of a soybean field; in the longer-term, the more ambitious goal is to gain such insights from satellite imagery.
Wang said that he’s particularly happy about the planned education and outreach components of his project. He anticipates that the strong visual appeal of the work and the excitement of being able to create one’s own virtual world will be attractive to young people. While studying computer vision and machine learning normally starts with a lot of intimidating math, he plans to offer an immersive initial experience to make this area more approachable to K through 12 schoolchildren.
Wang's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to Digitize and Simulate the Large Physical World via Knowledge-Grounded Scene Representation is the NSF's most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
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Two receive Klemperer Award for outstanding materials PhD thesis
Two PhD graduates, Qi Hua and Falon Kalutantirige, were awarded the 2024 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis in the Department of Chemistry.
In a special presentation to the department on May 9, 2024, Hua presented her thesis, “Understanding and Controlling the Reactivity of Oxygen Reduction and Methanol Oxidation Electrocatalysts,” and Falon presented her thesis, “Morphogenesis-Morphology-Function Relationships of Irregular Nanomaterials Using Advanced Electron Microscopy and Graph Theory.”
Advised by chemistry Prof. Andrew Gewirth, Hua began her graduate studies at Illinois in 2019 after completing a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry at Lanzhou University. And Kalutantirige earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, in 2017, and was advised at Illinois by materials science and engineering professor Qian Chen, who is also affiliated with the Department of Chemistry.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2021. PDF. Design, Synthesis and Testing of Bioactive Peptidomimetics, Sami Abdulkadir. PDF. Synthesis of Small Molecules for the Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Elena Bray. PDF. Social Constructivism in Chemistry Peer Leaders and Organic Chemistry Students, Aaron M. Clark.
Chemistry thesis and dissertation collection. Browse By. By Issue Date Authors Titles Subjects Publication Type Sponsor Supervisors. Search within this Collection: Go The School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh is the top rated for teaching and research in Scotland. Presented here is a selection of research from the School ...
Undergraduate Theses. The University of Dayton Department of Chemistry encourages its undergraduate majors to conduct scholarly research, offering students paid laboratory work, academic scholarships, and summer research fellowships. Faculty provide mentorship, advice, supervision, supplies, and access to state-of-the-art instrumentation.
AUTHOR: In each respective box, enter your names (and/or initials) as they appear on the title page of your dissertation or thesis. You are the sole author; your advisor is not considered a co-author. Institution is University of Nebraska-Lincoln (not "at Lincoln" or ", Lincoln"). Do not leave this field blank.
A guide to writing up your chemical science thesis. Bookmark. This guide aims to give you guidance on how to write your thesis so that your research is showcased at its best. It includes suggestions on how to prepare for writing up and things to consider during the final stages.
Except as noted below, each thesis should be about 20-25 pages in length (12 pt font, double-spaced except for abstract which may be single-spaced) and written in the style of an article to be published in a journal in the area of the research. Students should, of course, consult with their research directors about the structure of their theses; however, a suggested outline which may be used ...
We are also making the details of the study a little more specific; referring to undergraduate chemistry students and the length of the industrial placement. This question then is including: - The focus of the research: perception of development of career skills. - The subject of the research: undergraduate chemistry students on placement.
document), must be turned into the Chemistry Undergraduate Research Office. Thesis: Your thesis must be turned in before the last day of classes of the second semester of the thesis sequence (CHEM 692 or CHEM 682) to: 1) the Chemistry Undergraduate Research Office (Chem 2110) in hard copy; and 2) your research professor/advisor in the format of ...
06:35pm - 07:05pm USA / Canada - Eastern - March 22, 2022. Emily C. Wild, MLIS, Presenter. Abstract. Each year, undergraduate and graduate students complete senior theses and PhD dissertations within the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University. During the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic, access to some content became challenging, and ...
Research in chemistry or a related area must be undertaken under the supervision of a thesis advisor (or co-advisor) who is a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry. The thesis will be evaluated by a three-person committee consisting of the research advisor and at least two other faculty members. In the case of SHC theses, one of the ...
Advances in Heterocyclic Synthesis through Ring Expansions and Flow Chemistry . Charaschanya, Manwika (University of Kansas, 2018-05-31) This dissertation comprises three chapters, which focus on the development of new synthetic methodologies and the construction of a screening collection.
Please contact the LAS office directly with any questions about this final stage in the thesis submission process, including any deadline for submitting the thesis to the LAS office. 7. For Chemistry's Distinction requirements, including GPA minima, please see the campus catalog degree requirements for the BS and BSLAS majors.
INVESTIGATING REDOX CHEMISTRY OF GRAPHITE, IRON OXIDE & IRON SURFACES, Mikhail Trought. Theses/Dissertations/Reports from 2020 PDF. EXPLORING SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY OF FRUCTOSE TRANSPORTERS EN ROUTE TO GLUT SPECIFIC PROBES FOR BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS, Vagarshak Vigenovich Begoyan. PDF
Follow. Theses from 2024 PDF. Cyanoacrylate deposition onto sebum with pretreatment of amine, Isaac Baltz. PDF. Maximizing the capability of a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiphene) (PEDOT)-modified microelectrode array for manipulating fluids with redox-magnetohydrodynamics (R-MHD) for applications in chip-based chemical analysis, James Johnson. Theses from 2023
Dissertations on Chemistry. Chemistry is a science involving the study of the elements and matter at the atomic and molecular level including their composition, structure, properties, behaviour, and how they react or combine. View All Dissertation Examples.
CHEM3161: CHEMISTRY BSC DISSERTATION. Please ensure you check the module availability box for each module outline, as not all modules will run in each academic year. Each module description relates to the year indicated in the module availability box, and this may change from year to year, due to, for example: changing staff expertise ...
The dissertation defense includes: A public presentation of the student's Ph.D research to which members of the CCB community will be invited, followed by. The private Ph.D. dissertation defense before the Ph.D. Thesis Committee. Students must submit the dissertation to the Ph.D. Thesis Committee at least 7 days before the defense date.
The Harvard University Archives' collection of theses, dissertations, and prize papers document the wide range of academic research undertaken by Harvard students over the course of the University's history.. Beyond their value as pieces of original research, these collections document the history of American higher education, chronicling both the growth of Harvard as a major research ...
Dissertation examples. Listed below are some of the best examples of research projects and dissertations from undergraduate and taught postgraduate students at the University of Leeds We have not been able to gather examples from all schools. The module requirements for research projects may have changed since these examples were written.
This chemistry is accomplished by choosing ligand donor groups, oximates, which form a remarkable metal-organic redox hybrid with the nickel. This kind of redox hybrid is used in nature by various metalloenzymes, including the copper-containing galactose oxidase and amine oxidases, which catalyze the same kind of chemistry as our nickel complex.
Thesis Title Deadline:July 19, 2024 ($85 late fee if submitted after this date. If your thesis title is not finalized by this date, please enter your current working title and the final title can be updated later) Thesis Submission Deadline: August 16, 2024. Last day of work in the lab: on or before August 31, 2024.
100s of Free Chemistry Dissertation Topics & Ideas. Published by Owen Ingram at January 2nd, 2023 , Revised On August 18, 2023. It is not easy to come up with intriguing and compelling chemistry dissertation topic ideas, especially if one is juggling multiple subjects or looking at adjacent fields simultaneously.
Getting organized Introduction and Context: importance of the problem; strong statement of aim [thesis] Background: elaborate on the research area; give preliminary results (describe what has been done) Research Plan: Rationale; General objective & specific aims; Specific aim 1 (elaborated);
Katherine Parrish Thesis Defense. May 31, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm. Zoom Link. Download event. Katherine Parrish will defend her doctoral dissertation "Investigating Chiral Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic Materials.". A phenomenon observed in some oriented materials is apparent circular dichroism (ACD), a differential absorption of ...
Counterfactual scenarios will be simulated to predict the outcomes of different courses of action. Shenlong Wang. Computer Science and Coordinated Science Lab professor Shenlong Wang at The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award to support the creation of AI systems that can make digital twins—that is, digital ...
Two PhD graduates, Qi Hua and Falon Kalutantirige, were awarded the 2024 Klemperer Award for Outstanding Materials Chemistry Ph.D. Thesis in the Department of Chemistry. In a special presentation to the department on May 9, 2024, Hua presented her thesis, "Understanding and Controlling the Reactivity of Oxygen Reduction and Methanol Oxidation ...