Chemistry Master's Theses


 

Student

Thesis Title

2006

Touraj Rowhani

Development and Validation of an Analytical Method for Determination of Polyhexamethylene Biguanide in the Presence of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds in Recreational Water.

2007

Jonathan Jones

Determination of Imidacloprid by ELISA and GC/MS.  A Comparison of Analytical Techniques and a Coordinated Field Study with the U.S. Forest Service to Determine Uptake and Persistence in Imidacloprid Treated Hemlock Trees.

2008

Amanda Norbutus

Technical Investigation of the Materials and Methods Utilized in a Copy of a 17th Century Dutch Genre Painting: Gerrit Dou’s Man Interrupted at His Writing (1635).

2008

Frank Calvosa

Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) from Standard Reference Material 2585 (Organic Contaminants in House Dust) with 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane (R134a).

2009

Frank Cook

Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) Determination of the Uptake, Persistence and Metabolism of Imidacloprid in Treated Hemlock Trees.

2009

Timothy Oswald

Analysis of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) by Liquid Chromatography with Negative-Ion Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/NI-APPI/MS/MS). Measurement of PBDE Levels in Automobile Dust and Implications for Human Exposure.

 

Biology Master's Theses


 

Student

Thesis Title

2008

Frank Iosue

The Role of Phytochemicals and Leaf Cushion Morphology in Host Resistance to the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae). 

2010

Caitlin Kelly

Male Courtship Pheromones are Indicators of Genetic Quality in an Arctiid Moth (Utetheisa ornatrix)

 

Undergraduate Honors Theses


 

Student

Thesis Title

2009

Jaclyn Olsen

Hair Analysis as a Noninvasive Monitoring Technique for Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Adults and Children and Potential Linkages to Environmental Factors.