Spring 2000 Volume 4, Issue 1
Abstracts of posters presented at the Fourth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium

Hitendra R. Patel and Martin V. Stewart; Tracetone Alcohol from phorone hydrolysis.
Timothy Fusco & Stephen M. Wright; An Endospore-Forming Bacillus Exhibiting Gliding Motility
Jennifer G. Martin-Tarpley & Martin V. Stewart; Confirmation that Ce(IV)/SiO2 Functions as a solid-supported reagent during hydroquinone oxidation.
Jason E. Hill; A Numerical Solution to the Quantum Wire Structure Using Finite Difference Methods
C. Ashley Loflin and Judith M. Bonicamp; COMPARISON OF TWO OSMOMETERS FOR MEASURING PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
Ashley Loflin and Ngee-Sing Chong; PARAFILM AS A SUBSTRATE FOR INFRARED (IR) SPECTROSCOPY
Amanda L. Daniel, Andrienne C. Friedli, Zujiang Wang, and Walter J. Dressick; CHEMISORPTION AND PHYSISORPTION OF PHENYLALKYL DIMETHYL CHLOROSILANES ON FUMED SILICA SURFACES. Busola A. Delano and Gary D. White; Properties of Leucodyes or "Livin' La Vida Leuco"
 John-Michael McGaugh; Improving Biosensor Accuracy
Karen Foster and Tammy Melton; DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTRODUCTORY CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT FOR THE DETECTION OF CARBOHYDRATES, FATS, AND PROTEINS IN SNACK FOODS
Dara Grissom, Judith Iriarte-Gross; BRINGING SCIENCE TO LIFE: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF APPLIED LABS FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE 100 STUDENTS
Freneka F. Minter, Judith Iriarte-Gross; pH STUDIES OF Te(OH)6.
Jennifer Perdergrast and Judith M. Bonicamp; DIFFERENTIATION OF HYDROCODONE AND METABOLITES FROM OTHER OPIATES IN HUMAN URINE.
M. C. Beckman, M. B. Farone, and A.L. Farone; Characterization of Macrophage Infection by a Novel, Environmental Isolate of a Legionella-like Bacterium
Mirfet Abdelhadi, William H. Ilsley, James C. Howard and Gary Wulfsberg; Synthesis, NMR and RHF/PM3 Studies Of Three Aryl(pentachlorocyclopentadienyl)Mercury(II) Compounds
Andrew Kilgore, Kavitha Sivaramakrishnan, and Ngee-Sing Chong; Air Pollution Monitoring in the Major Metropolitan Areas of Tennessee
Steven B. Rothholz, P. Brian Spangler, Judith Iriarte-Gross; INVESTIGATIONS OF SILICON ETHOXIDE AND PVA SOL-GEL PRODUCTS
Thomas McCuddy; A Mathematical Analysis of Population Trends in Tennessee
Michael May; Surface Electromagnetic Waves in Multi-layered Dielectric Samples
Andrew Diamond and Benoit Henry; Measuring microwave dielectric properties of materials Using a short pulse laser.
Virginia L. Mattie, Nyanguila Kakolesha, and Judith M. Bonicamp; SERIAL DILUTIONS OF SOLUTIONS IN QUANT WITH INSTRUMENT FEEDBACK--AN UPDATE
Jamie Wilcox (undergraduate presenter) and Gary Wulfsberg; CHLORINE NQR STUDIES OF METAL CHLOROACETATES:  MODELS OF WEAKLY COORDINATING LIGANDS NEEDED FOR METALLOCENE CATALYSIS IN THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY.
Zahra Rezaei, Judith M. Iriarte-Gross, William H. Isley, and Brian Hill; SELENIUM-77 NMR CHEMICAL SHIFTS AND THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS FOR THE SERIES, (CH3)4-xSi(SeCH3)x.