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Student Research

All students conduct at least one independent research project under faculty supervision and many present their results at venues external to Marist. Our students co-author publications in prestigious journals and win awards at regional and national conferences. The most recent American Chemical Society evaluation of our department characterized our student research reports as "excellent."

Recent Publications

(Marist undergraduates in bold)

Fitzgerald

Mandigo, A. C., DiScenza, D. J., Keimowitz, A. R., and Fitzgerald, N. 鈥淐hemical Contamination of Soils in the New York City Area Following Hurricane Sandy.鈥� Environmental Geochemistry and Health 38 (2016): 1115-1124.

Johnson, S. R., Soprano, S. E., Wickham, L. M., Fitzgerald, N., and Edwards, J. C. 鈥淣uclear Magnetic Resonance and Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction Gas Chromatography as Complementary Methods for the Analysis of Beer Samples.鈥� Beverages 3, no. 2 (2017): 21.

Mazelin, C., Vose, J. C., Kepner, R., L., and Fitzgerald, N. "Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction GCMS as a Potential In-Situ Method for the Early Detection of Fusarium Head Blight in Barley." Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists, 78, no. 3 (2020): 202-206.

Hodges, M. D., and Fitzgerald, N. 鈥淚nvestigating the Potential of an In-Situ Method for Monitoring the Malting of Barley using Solid Phase Microextraction with a Portable Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Instrument鈥� Beverages 6, no. 4 (2020): 72.

Burns, R. L., Alexander, R., Snaychuk, L., Edwards, J. C., Fitzgerald, N., Gao, P., Quan, D., Douvris, C., Vaughan, T., and Bussan, D. D. 鈥淎 Fast, Straightforward and Inexpensive Method for the Authentication of Chinese Liquor Baijiu Samples by Fluorescence Spectroscopy.鈥� Beverages 7, no. 3 (2021): 65.

Fitzgerald, N., and Edwards, J. C. 鈥淚nvestigation of Solid Phase Microextraction Gas Chromatography鈥揗ass Spectrometry, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and 1H qNMR Spectroscopy as Potential Methods for the Authentication of Baijiu Spirits.鈥� Beverages 9, no.1 (2023): 25.

 

Galbraith

Laconsay, C. J., James, A. M., and Galbraith, J. M. 鈥淓ffect of Lone Pairs on Molecular Resonance Energy.鈥� The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 120, no. 42 (2016): 8430-8434.

James, A. M., Laconsay, C. J., and Galbraith, J. M. 鈥淐harge-Shift Corrected Electronegativities and the Effect of Bond Polarity and Substituents on Covalent鈥揑onic Resonance Energy.鈥� The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 121, no. 27 (2017): 5190-5195.

Laconsay, C. J. and Galbraith, J. M. 鈥淎 Valence Bond Theory Treatment of Tetrel Bonding Interactions.鈥� Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 1116 (2017): 202-206.

Nemes, C. T., Laconsay, C. J., and Galbraith, J. M. "Hydrogen Bonding from a Valence Theory Perspective: The Role of Covalency" Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20 (2018): 20963-20969.

Shaik, S., Danovich, D., Galbraith, J. M., Braida, B., Wu, W., and Hiberty, P. C. "Charge-Shift Bonding: A New and Unique Form of Bonding." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 59 (2020): 984-1001.

Karadakov, P. B., Dunning, T. H., 鈥淰alence Bond and Molecular Orbital: Two Powerful Theories that Nicely Complement One Another.鈥� Journal of Chemical Education 98, no. 12 (2021): 3617-3620.

Rizwan, K., Galbraith, J. M., 鈥淐ovalent vs. Dative Bonding in Carbon Monoxide and other 10-Valence-Electron Diatomics.鈥� Molecules 29, no. 22 (2024): 5396-5408.

 

Nadeau

DeBlase, C. R., Finke, R. T., Porras, J. A., Tanski, J. M., and Nadeau, J. M. 鈥淐-Shaped Diastereomers Containing Cofacial Thiophene-Substituted Quinoxaline Rings: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and X-Ray Crystallography.鈥� Journal of Organic Chemistry 79, no. 10 (2014): 4312-4321.

Ciufo, R. A., Kreinbihl, J. J., Johnson, S. R., and Nadeau, J. M. 鈥淪ynthesis and Spectroscopic Studies of Highly Fluorescent, Solvatochromic Diastereomers with Differentially Stacked Bithiophene-Substituted Quinoxaline Rings.鈥� Tetrahedron 73, no. 1 (2017): 30-38.

Wickham, L. M., Tanski, J. M., Nadeau, J. M. 鈥淐rystal Structure of a Fluorescent C-shaped Molecule Containing Closely Stacked Bithiophene-Substituted Quinoxaline Rings.鈥� Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry 73, no. 3 (2017): 276-279.

Lucht, B. M., Monsky, R. J., Rosko, M. C., Tanski, J. M., Nadeau, J. M. 鈥淭hiophene-Substituted Quinoxaline Donor-Acceptor Dyes: Synthesis, NMR Spectroscopy, X-ray Crystallography, and Photophysical Properties鈥� Tetrahedron 170 (2025): 134382.

 

Woolridge

Woolridge, E. M. 鈥淢ixed Enzyme Systems for Delignification of Lignocellulosic Biomass.鈥� Catalysts 4, no. 1 (2014): 1-35.

Badon, M. M., Tekverk, D. G., Vishnosky, N. S., and Woolridge, E. M. "Establishing the Oxidative Tolerance of Thermomyces Ianuginosus Xylanase" Journal of Applied Microbiology 127, no. 2 (2019): 508-519.

Lee, A. A., Gervasio, E. D., Hughes, R. O., Maalouf, A. A., Musso, S. A., Crisalli, A. M., and Woolridge, E. M. 鈥淎lginate Encapsulation Stabilizes Xylanase Toward the Laccase Mediator System.鈥� Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 195, no. 5 (2023): 3311-3326.