Ethan Peters is an Honors College Fellow double majoring in Biochemistry and Spanish with minors in music and medical humanities. He is a premedical student with plans to attend medical school in Fall of 2025. He has served in several campus organizations, including...
Denmark by Bike
Author: Josie Carson | Major: Biochemistry Hello! My name is Josie Carson, and I’m a senior studying Biochemistry in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. My study abroad trip began at 3am, July 4th, 2021, on the drive to the airport. Everything was going...
Challenging the Literature on Poison Ivy
Author: Davis Luke Campbell Majors: Computational Physics, Biochemistry, Applied Mathematics My research was over urushiol, the natural complex of molecules involved in the reaction caused by contact with poison ivy, called “urushiol-induced contact dermatitis.”...
Fighting Cancer in a Chemistry Lab
Author: Mia Alshami Major: Chemistry, Biochemistry Concentration, and Psychology When I first came to the University of Arkansas, I immediately knew I wanted to get involved in research. I had some previous research experience in high school, and I knew...
Seeking to Understand the Oxidative Stress Response in E. coli
Author: Carson Ercanbrack Major: Biochemistry My name is Carson Ercanbrack, and I am majoring in biochemistry within the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. During the spring semester of 2021, I performed research in the chemistry and biochemistry...
The “Broiler” Diet
Author: Wesley Vaught Major: Biology and Biochemistry My name is Wesley Vaught, and I am a Biology and Biochemistry double major. My journey toward my Biochemistry degree brought me to my research mentor: Dr. Adnan Alrubaye. Dr. Alrubaye teaches the General...
Analyzing the Activation State of Protein Bax
Author: Meghana Chithirala Major: Chemistry/Biochemistry and Economics My name is Meghana Chithirala. I am an honors college fellow at Fulbright College majoring in chemistry/biochemistry and economics and minoring in French. During the 2021 spring grant term, I...
Designing Urea and Thio-Urea-based Covalent Organic Framework for Organic Catalysis Reactions
Author: Patricia Lambe Major: Biochemistry My name is Patricia Lambe, and I graduated from Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. I majored in Chemistry with a concentration in Biochemistry, and I minored in Psychology. Throughout...
Analysis of Sugar Reduction Efficiency in Chicken Feed to Increase Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) using Mobile Enzyme Sequestration Platforms
Author: Amy Eggers Major: Biochemistry My research involves testing the sugar reduction efficiency of an enzyme platform constructed within the laboratory; this platform is known as a mobile enzyme sequestration platform (mESP). The benefit to this...
Isolating an Anti-microbial Peptide
Author: Grant Robinson Majors: Biochemistry, Biophysics Throughout the 2020 fall research grant semester, I worked under the guidance of my research mentor, Dr. Julie Stenken, to finalize my previous research projects and begin to work toward publishing a paper...