Research in Chemistry and Forensic Chemistry

The Chemistry faculty are active in cutting-edge research and involve Chemistry majors throughout their careers at York College. This page highlights the research posters that students presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society held in San Diego,  Calif., in March 2012.

 

 

    

Study of partitioning behaviors of amphetamine in a water/octanol
system

Patrick S. Benecewicz

Advisors: William Steel and Sherry Brown

    

VCD analysis of amphetamine

Henry R. Bickel

Advisor: William Steel

    

Elemental analysis of a meteorite sample

Matthew A. Cunningham

Advisors: William Kreiger and Gregory Foy

    

Determination of amphetamines in an alcoholic
beverage

Kiersten L. DeBlaker

Advisors: Sherry Brown, Gregory Foy, Donna Taylor

    

Isolation and detection of explosive residue from latent
fingerprints

Melissa Friscia

Advisors: Gregory Foy, Donna Taylor, Sherry Brown?

 

    

Preparation of a high strength wax-like polymerizable dental
material

Charles D. Hertz

Advisor: Kathleen Halligan

    

Investigation of homogeneous catalysts for the synthesis of
biodiesel

Richard J. Janosky

Advisors: Gregory Foy, Kathleen Halligan, Gary Sigel

    

New benchmarks for calibrating methods used to simulate VCD
spectra

Patrick J. Lestrange

Advisor: James Foresman

   

 

 

Detection of flunitrazepam in beverages

Jessica E. Reese

Advisors: Sherry Brown and Donna Taylor

 

 

Barbiturate isolation and detection using supercritical fluid extraction and gas
chromatography/mass spectrometry

Katherine E. Steinle

Advisors: Sherry Brown, Donna Taylor, Gregory Foy

 

Student Posters from 2011