Graduate Research Highlights

  • June 2018: Sneha Ray
    2/4/19

    "My research goals include studying the mechanism and rationally design an inhibitor for an enzyme that confers pathogenicity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis."

  • May 2018: Rachel Mullen
    2/4/19

    "As a N.Y. Sea Grant Scholar, my current research uses liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry to investigate the removal efficiency of conventional and advanced wastewater treatment systems for a variety of pharmaceuticals."

  • April 2018: Brendan Smith
    2/4/19

    "We have developed a methodology for treating quantum nuclear effects within the framework of classical mechanics which allows for their inclusion in molecular dynamics simulations at a fraction of the cost."

  • March 2018: Laura Parisi
    2/4/19

    "My research focuses on understanding the roles of specific lipids during necroptosis, a unique type of programmed cell death which has been associated with pathologies including neurodegenerative diseases, ischaemia-reperfusion injuries, and cancer."

  • February 2018: Anjula Kosswattaarachchi
    2/4/19

    "My thesis research project focuses on developing new charge carriers for redox flow batteries (RFBs) using molecular-level design principles guided by electrochemical analysis to address stability, solubility and energy density."

  • January 2018: Tomasz Wdowik
    2/4/19

    "My research focuses on exploring oxygen as a reagent and/or oxidant for copper-catalyzed reactions that are useful for the synthesis of nitrogen and oxygen based heterocycles."

  • December 2017: Esra Altay
    2/4/19

    "My graduate research is primarily focused on the synthesis of reactive bottlebrush copolymers and their use in forming macromolecular architectures such as star-brush polymers, network structures, hydrogels, and nanogels."

  • November 2017: Nita G. Chavez Soria
    2/4/19

    "My research interest is on the impact of nanoparticles on plant systems and cell lines. I look for metabolomic changes in these systems using liquid chromatography with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry."