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Irene Joliot-Curie, Erick J. Klein Jan 2017

Irene Joliot-Curie, Erick J. Klein

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College features chemist Irene Joliot-Curie, one of four women, including her mother, Marie Curie, who have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Joliot-Curie, with her husband Frederic Joliot-Curie won the prize in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.


Clozaril, Gillian Jones Jan 2017

Clozaril, Gillian Jones

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This is a poster presented at the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College, which provides the chemical makeup, dosage, and the body's response to Clozaril (Clozapine, Fazaclo, Versacloz) an atypical antipsychotic used to manage schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder as well as bipolar disorder, dementia-related behavior disorders, and tremors.


Percy Lavon Julian, Kaitlyn M. Camp Jan 2017

Percy Lavon Julian, Kaitlyn M. Camp

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College features African American chemist Percy Lavon Julian credited with the first total synthesis of physostigmine, a drug involved in the treatment of glaucoma.


Wilhelm Ostwald, Kori K. Johnson Jan 2017

Wilhelm Ostwald, Kori K. Johnson

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College features chemist Wilhelm Ostwald who discovered the law of dilution in 1988, which is the application of the law of mass action to weak electrolytes in solution. He also developed a process of catalytic oxidation of ammonia to nitric acid and introduced the word "mole".


Draco, Christian Ekhoff Jan 2017

Draco, Christian Ekhoff

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College features the constellation Draco, which is positioned between the big and little dipper in the Northern sky. It is also circumpolar and contains a galaxy and a nebula in its boundaries. The student identified ten different key stars in the constellation, observed when they rose and set. He then graphed their altitudes and azimuth and identified their life spans.


Effects Of Nitrogen On Soil And Corn Yields, Doug W. Hughes Jan 2017

Effects Of Nitrogen On Soil And Corn Yields, Doug W. Hughes

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College describes the effects of nitrogen on soil and corn yields. Nitrogen has a major role in establishing and maintaining optimal photosynthesis in corn plants. A comparison shows that crops with more nitrogen applied produces healthier plants. The presentation also includes ways to reduce Nitrogen loss and the impact that Nitrogen rates have on the environment, corn yield, and cost to farmers.


Cancer, Alexander M. Dani Jan 2017

Cancer, Alexander M. Dani

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College features the constellation Cancer, its ten brightest stars and Messier objects. Cancer (the crab) is a zodiac constellations located between Leo and Gemini. The student identified the ten different key stars and graphed their altitudes and azimuth to calculate their lifespans. He also described the two Messier objects and calculated how many days are in a year according to the rise times of a star in the constellation.


Aricept, Colleen M. Westburg Jan 2017

Aricept, Colleen M. Westburg

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster, presented at the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College, provides the chemical makeup, dosage, and effects of Donepizil Hydrocholide, trade name Aricept, used to treat the symtoms of mild, moderate, or severe dementia of Alzheimer’s type. Unlabeled uses include treatment of symptoms of vascular dementia, poststroke aphasia, and memory improvement in multiple sclerosis patients.


Nortriptyline Hyrdochloride, Israel R. Gomez Raffoul Jan 2017

Nortriptyline Hyrdochloride, Israel R. Gomez Raffoul

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster, presented at the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College, provides the chemical makeup, dosage, and effects of Nortriptyline Hydrochloride, trade names Acetexa, Allegron, Aventyl, Noritren, Nortrilen, Sensaval, and Vividyl, used to treat endogenous drpression. Unlabeled uses include treatment of nocturnal enuresis in children, ADJD, and diabetic neuropathy.


Sertraline Hydrochloride, Michelle L. Fehr Jan 2017

Sertraline Hydrochloride, Michelle L. Fehr

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster, presented at the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College, provides the chemical makeup, dosage, and effects of Sertraline Hydrochloride, trade name Zoloft, used to treat the symptoms of depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, premenstual dysphoric disorder, generalized anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.


Benazepril Hydrochloride, Tuan A. Nguyen Jan 2017

Benazepril Hydrochloride, Tuan A. Nguyen

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster, presented at the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College, provides the chemical makeup, dosage, and effects of Benazepril Hydrochloride, trade names Briem, Cibacen, Fortekor, and Iotensin, used to treat mild to moderate hypertension.


Prednisone, Donna K. Broderick Jan 2017

Prednisone, Donna K. Broderick

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster, presented at the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College, provides the chemical makeup, dosage, and effects of Predinisone, trade name Deltasone, Apo-Prednisone, Meticorton, Orasone, Panasol, Panasal, Prenicen-M Sterapred, Winred, an adrenal corticosteroid used to treat a variety of symptoms.


Citalopram Hydrobromide, Maria Parks Jan 2017

Citalopram Hydrobromide, Maria Parks

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster, presented at the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College, provides the chemical makeup, dosage, and effects of Citalopram Hydrobromide, trade name Celexa, used to treat depression.


Zoloft/Sertraline Hcl, Loretta Banks Jan 2017

Zoloft/Sertraline Hcl, Loretta Banks

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster, presented at the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College, provides the chemical makeup, dosage, and effects of Sertraline Hydrochloride, trade name Zoloft, used to treat the symptoms of depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, premenstual dysphoric disorder, generalized anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.


Gemini: The Twins Of Leda, Derek Schneider Jan 2017

Gemini: The Twins Of Leda, Derek Schneider

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College features the constellation Gemini, identifying prominent stars in the constellation and objects within the region (nebulae, clusters, galaxies), calculating the lifespans of the stars in the constellation, calculating average rise time change, and briefly touching on the associated mythology.


Naloxone Therapy In Opioid Overdose Patients: Intranasal Or Intravenous?, Leiah Carney Jan 2017

Naloxone Therapy In Opioid Overdose Patients: Intranasal Or Intravenous?, Leiah Carney

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This slide presentation for the Natural Science Poster Session at Parkland College describes the chemical makeup and effect of Naloxone, an opioid antagonist used in the treatment opioid overdose and summarizes a study comparing intravenous and intranasal delivery methods. Concludes that although there are conflicting studies, evidence supports intranasal delivery.


The Applications Of Rate Constants In Commercial Methane Digesters, Alyssa Nuñez Jan 2017

The Applications Of Rate Constants In Commercial Methane Digesters, Alyssa Nuñez

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This slide presentation for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College summarizes a study conducted to test the effectiveness of rate constants to measure stability and productivity in commercial methane digesters. The study concluded that using rate constants can improve peak production and make methane order an economically viable energy option. The study also concluded that nickel supplements have a large effect on rate constants.


Methane Flammability, David Sky Nunez Jan 2017

Methane Flammability, David Sky Nunez

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This slide presentation for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College summarizes a study conducted to determine which range of mixtures between Oxygen, Methane, Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide are flammable, and also discovered the influence of certain components on overall flammability.


Isotopes And Horses, Evyjo M. Compton Jan 2017

Isotopes And Horses, Evyjo M. Compton

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This presentation for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College defines isotopes and summarizes an experiment conducted on a modern horse to examine the seasonal shifts of trace elements by measuring the oxygen and carbon isotopes in tooth enamel.


Lunesta, Mary Kreie Jan 2017

Lunesta, Mary Kreie

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster, presented at the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College, provides the chemical makeup, dosage, and effects of Eszopiclone, trade name Lunesta, used to treat insomnia.


Robert Burns Woodward, Cody J. Reeley Jan 2017

Robert Burns Woodward, Cody J. Reeley

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College features chemist Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979). Woodward was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965 for his work on organic synthesis. His work on total synthesis includes cholesterol, chlorophyll, colchicine, erythromycin, reserpine, and vitamin B12.


Canis Major, Sage A. Russell Jan 2017

Canis Major, Sage A. Russell

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session features the constellation Canis Major. Features of the poster include a calculation of the change in rise time to calculate the passage of a year, determining the life span of the major stars in the constellation, and identifying Messier objects within the region.


Dan Shechtman And His Discovery Of Quasicrystals, Emma C.B. Gray Jan 2017

Dan Shechtman And His Discovery Of Quasicrystals, Emma C.B. Gray

Natural Sciences Student Research Presentations

This poster for the Natural Sciences Poster Session at Parkland College features chemist and material science professor Dan Shechtman who discovered Quasicrystals in 1982.