The NSF-funded Queensborough Bridge Grant (AWARD ID: 0652963) involves Queensborough Community College (Paris Svoronos, PI; Melvin Gorelick, Co-PI), Queens College (Thomas Strekas, Co-PI) and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

OBJECTIVES

• Increase the STEM degree enrollment and graduation at Queensborough Community College
• Increase the number of students engaged in student-faculty research both in chemistry and biology at Queensborough
• Increase the student transfer rate and research collaboration with both departments of Chemistry and Biology at Queens College
• Establish winter and summer research internships at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Provide PLTL-like tutorials to Queensborough students
• Support chemistry and biology professional conference trips and presentations for both students and faculty

STEP Grant Activities

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Students Presentations

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Department Seminars

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the ACS Assessment Exams [click]

Departmental Awards [click]

Chemistry Tutoring

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Useful Links

• STEP Central: for STEP Community

Publications with Students

• Dibyendu Dana; Tirtha K. Das; Ish Kumar; Anibal R. Davalos; Kevin J. Mark; Daryl Ramai; Emmanuel J. Chang; Tanaji T. Talele; Sanjai Kumar “Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of 2-(arylsulfonyl)oxiranes as Cell-permeable Covalent Inhibitors of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases”, Chem. Biol. Drug Des, 2012, in printing.

• Robert Hong; Tae Y. Kang; Corinne A. Michaels; Nidhi Gadura “Membrane Lipid Peroxidation in Copper Alloy-Mediated Contact Killing of Escherichia coli”, Appl. Environ. Michrobiol., 2012, 78, 1778.

• Tirandai Hemraj-Benny; Moni Chauhan; Lihua Zhang; Chi Kwan Wong; Gurpreet Singh; Eunchul Kim; Esther Ahn “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Hybrids of Tris[3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl] Isocyanurate (TTPI) Capped Palladium Nanoparticles and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Silicon, 2010,

• Keith Ramig; Edyta M. Greer; David J. Szalda; Rabail Razi; Fahima Mahir; Nataliya Pokeza; Wei Wong; Benjamin Kaplan; Joanne Lam; Ayesha Mannan; Christopher Missak; Dat Mai; Gopal Subramaniam; William F. Berkowitz; Prakash Prasad; Sasan Karimi; Ngai Hin Lo; Linas V. Kudzma“Experimental and Theoretical Studies of a One-flask Synthesis of 3H-1-Benzazepines from 2-Haloanilines and a,ß-Unsaturated Ketones”, Eur. J. Org. Chem, 2010, 2363–2371.

• Thomas, M.; Rothman, L.; Hatcher, J.; Agarkar, P.; Ramkirath, R.; Lall-Ramnarine, S.; Engel, R. “Synthesis and Thermochemical Properties of Stereoisomeric Dihydroxy- and Tetrahydroxyalkylammonium Salts”, Synthesis, 2009, 1437-1444.

• Chauhan Bhanu P. S.; Sarkar, A.; Chauhan, M.; Roka, A. “Water as Green Oxidant: a Highly Selective Conversion of Organosilanes to Silanols with Water”, Appl. Organometal. Chem., 2009, 23(10), 385-390.

• Subramaniam, G.; Patel, V.; Karimi, S. “Conformational Analysis of Longifolene”, Spectroscopy. Letters, 2008, 41, 349-353.

• Shin, J. H.; Song, S.; Kim, Y.; Subramaniam, G. "Applying Low Field ¹³C NMR Spectroscopy to Find Isoelectric Points of Amino Acids”, Chemical Educator, 2007, 12 (4), 275-278.

Activity by Photos

2013

• the 9th QCC Honors Conference
• the 61st Undergraduate Research Symposium (City College of NY, CUNY)
• the 21st Annual Statewide CSTEP Conference
• CUSJ (Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal) Undergraduate Research Symposium
• Nichols Medal Award (Dr. Richard Eisenberg)

2012

• the 244th American Chemical Society National Meeting (Philadelphia, PA)
• the 43rd MARM (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
• the 60th Undergraduate Research Symposium (SUNY at Old Westbury)
• the 8th QCC Honors Conference
• CUSJ (Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal) Undergraduate Research Symposium
• Nichols Medal Award (Dr. Dr. Alan G. Marshall)

2011

• the 42nd MARM (University of Maryland, College Park)
• the 59th Undergraduate Research Symposium (College of Mt. St. Vincent)
• the 7th QCC Honors Conference
• EIC 2011 (Einsteins in the City 2011) International Student Research Conference
• CUSJ (Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal) Undergraduate Research Symposium
• Nichols Medal Award (Dr. Julius Rebek, Jr.)
• BioTech Seminar (March 09)

2010

• the 240th American Chemical Society National Meeting (Boston, MA)
• Brookhaven National Lab Summer Poster Session
• the 58th Undergraduate Research Symposium (Adelphi University)
• the 6th QCC Honors Conference
• the 41st MARM (Wilmington, DE)
• STEM Academy
• Nichols Medal Award (Dr. Tobin J. Marks)
• the 13th CUNY Pipeline Honors Conference

2009

• the 238th American Chemical Society National Meeting (Washington D.C.)
• Brookhaven National Lab Summer Poster Session
• the 57th Undergraduate Research Symposium (Pace University)
• the 5th QCC Honors Conference
• Nichols Medal Award (Dr. Carolyn R. Bertozzi)

2008

• the 42nd WRM (Las Vegas, NV)
• the 236th American Chemical Society National Meeting (Philadelphia, PA)
• the 40th MARM (QCC, NY)
• the 56th Undergraduate Research Symposium (QCC)
• the 4th QCC Honors Conference
• Nichols Medal Award (Dr. Nadrian C. Seeman)

2007

• Science Showcasing
• the 234th American Chemical Society National Meeting (Boston, MA)
• the 39th MARM (Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA)
• the 55th Undergraduate Research Symposium (Mahattan College)
• the 3rd QCC Honors Conference
• Nichols Medal Award (Dr. Nicholas J. Turro)

** For more information on the chemistry department, click the following link: http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/chemistry