York undergraduate chemists honoured with 1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes
at 37th SOUSCC
Story by Rob McLaren
The York chemistry department had a great showing at the 37th Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCC) over the weekend. Eight students and three faculty travelled to Brock University, St. Catherines on Saturday March 28, to take part in this annual conference. The SOUSCC gives the opportunity for senior undergraduate chemistry students to present the results of research completed in research project courses.
The conference attracts the best and brightest graduating chemistry students from all over Ontario every year. The students gain valuable experience in making a formal research presentation, and defending their results to an audience of peers. It is also a chance for a bit of friendly competition with chemistry departments showcasing their new talents, and students competing for presentation awards.
The students from York enjoyed great success in this regard. The first three awards announced that night went to....York U, and then York U and then York U again. It was a clean sweep of the Analytical chemistry section of the conference with first, second and third prizes going to students from York University. The students, their presentations and the award winners are given below.
We'd like to congratulate ALL the students who attended; they represented York Chemistry well!
Linda Jugowiec (Wilson) - 1st prize Analytical
"Microfluidics–Ultra-Rapid Desalting Laminar Flow Microfluidic Device"
Lusia Sepiashvili. (Wilson) - 2nd Prize Analytical
"Site-Specific Analysis of Hydrogen-Deuterium Scrambling".
Peter Liuni. (Wilson) - 3rd Prize Analytical
"A Chip-Based Proteolytic Reactor for ESI-MS Analysis".
Shradda Brahmbhatt (Tsoukanova)
"Area Expansion of Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Grafted Phosphocholine Monolayers Upon Insulin Binding".
Jennifer Farmer (Potvin, Lever)
"Electrocatalysis of Carbon Dioxide Reduction by Ruthenium Quinonediimine Complexes."
Susan Suk-kyung Jeung (Morin/Audette)
"Modification of Au(III) Surfaces with Mixed Thiol SAMS as Templates to Form K122 Nanotubes"
Ekaterina Olkhov (Wilson)
"Measurement of Kinetic Isotope Effect Using Time Resolved Electrospray Mass Spectrometry"
Sohyun Park (Morin)
Poster - "Preparation of Photoanodes from nanocrystalline SnO2 and TiO2 semiconductors for the fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells"
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