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Personal Information
- Year: Junior
- Major: Chemistry/Physics
- From: Lawrenceville, IL
Undergraduate Research Experiences
Undergraduate Chemistry Research (CHEM 340)
Advisor: Dr. Audra Goach Sostarecz
- Studies aspects of insulin’s aggregation/interactions using the Langmuir monolayer technique
- Imaging insulin aggregation and interactions at the air-water interface using Brewster angle microscopy
- Beginning construction of a fluorescence microscope to use alongside a trough for data acquisition
- Anaerobic Chamber for Cell Cultivation - A collaboration with Katie Richter
- Semester Updates:
- Research Proposals:
REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates): Boston College
Summer 2019
- Project: Mechanistic Study of Intermediates in the Water Oxidation Pathway
- PI: Dr. Dunwei Wang
- Created heterogeneous CoOx catalyst films using galvanostatic electrodeposition
- Determined a potential-dependent mechanism switch of the cobalt catalyst under steady-state conditions
- Analyzed intermediates in the water oxidation cycle on the cobalt catalyst in operando using FTIR at various potentials
- Used quartz crystal microbalance to study the potential-dependent effects of water adhesion onto the catalyst
- Final Presentation:
- Material and Methods: Materials and Methods Summary
- Important Research Articles:
- Mechanistic Studies of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction by a Cobalt-Phosphate catalyst at neutral pH
- EPR evidence for co(IV) species produced during water oxidation at neutral pH
- Fe (Oxy)hydroxide oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis Intrinsic Activity and the Roles of Electrical Conductivity, Substrate, and Dissolution
- On the chemical state of Co oxide electrocatalysts during alkaline water splitting
- Time-resolved observations of water oxidation intermediates on a cobalt oxide nanoparticle catalyst
- Unified structural motifs of the catalytically active state of Co(oxyhydro)oxides during the electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction
SOfIA (Summer Opportunities for Intellectual Activities)
Summer 2018
- SOfIA Project: Visualization Using a Ceramic 3D Printer
- Was a student mentor for incoming freshman in the project
- Calibrated and adjusted a new ceramic 3D printer
- Learned the CAD design software, Fusion 360
- Created several unique 3D designs and prints
Summer 2017
- SOfIA Project: The Chemistry of Baking
- Learned various baking techniques
- Used various strains of yeast to make dough and bread samples
- Analyzed volatile chemicals in bread/dough samples using Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry(GC-MS)
Richard "Doc" Kieft Summer Research
Advisor: Dr. Audra Goach Sostarecz
- Summer 2018
- Used Langmuir Trough to study the effects of divalent metal cations on insulin aggregation
- Studied insulin’s interactions with lipids commonly found in the cell membrane
- Worked with other research members to begin construction of a fluorescence microscope
- Used Python to create a Graphical User Interface for data processing programs
- Final Presentation: Insulin Aggregation at the Air-Water Interface
- Data from the Summer:Summer Data Summary
Coffee Project
- Analyzed aromatic molecules in roasted coffee using GC-MS
Presentations
- August 2019: Boston College REU Research Presentation
- Title: Mechanistic Study of Intermediates in the Water Oxidation Pathway (Oral Presentation)
- May 2019: Monmouth College Scholars Day
- Title: Investigating Insulin Monomer and Hexamer Formation with Langmuir Monolayers and Brewster Angle Microscopy (Poster Presentation)
- May 2019: 257th National ACS Conference
- Title: Investigating Insulin Monomer and Hexamer Formation with Langmuir Monolayers and Brewster Angle Microscopy (Poster Presentation)
- August 2018: Monmouth College SOfIA Program
- Title: Visualization Using a Ceramic 3D Printer (Oral and Poster Presentations)
- June 2018: Richard "Doc" Kieft Summer Research Program
- Title: Insulin Aggregation at the Air Water Interface (Oral Presentation)
- August 2017: Monmouth College SOfIA Program
- Title: The Chemistry of Baking (Oral and Poster Presentations)
Classes
Advanced Physical Chemistry
Events
Bettendorf Jr. High School STEM Expo:
- Setup 3D printers(Ceramic, FDM, and SLA) to demonstrate the creation of 3D elements
- This also included a Coffee station, 2D to 3D paper folding station, and a drone station
Setting Up the Raspberry Pi
- The operating system of the RPi(Raspbian) was setup and the instruction can be found at the following link:
Raspberry Pi Instructional Page
Growing Crystals
- Towards the end of the class, we started to grow crystals. My crystal, the potassium ferricyanide crystal, along with the instructions used to make it, can be found at this link:
Class Summary
- Final Paper: Final Portfolio