Presentations

  • Kindall Henning*, Shauna Hiley, Gary Clap, and Jeff Woodford “Grape leaves of wrath: measurement of nutrients in soil, sugar in grapes, and calcium in leaves.”  Spring 2020 American Chemical Society National Meeting & Expo, Philadelphia, PA on March 23, 2020.
  • Jeff Woodford, Shauna Hiley, Gary Clapp, and Kindall Henning*, “Development of an applied learning general chemistry project at the vineyard.” Presentation to the Spring 2020 American Chemical Society National Meeting and Expo, Philadelphia, PA on March 22, 2020.
  • Natalie Mikita and William K. Constable*, “Investigating the thermostability of a heat shock protein DegQ protease, a bacterial analog to pregnancy related serine protease (HtrA3).” Poster presented at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Wichita, KS on October 17, 2019.
  • Stanislav Svojanovsky, “Status on chemistry online courses at Missouri Western State University.” Forum presentation at the ACS Midwest Regional Meeting, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS on October 18, 2019.
  • Matthew L. Edlin* and Stanislav Svojanovsky, “SRp40 Exonic Splicing Enhancer.” Presentation to the ACS Midwest Regional Meeting (MWRM), Wichita State University, Wichita, KS on October 17, 2019.
  • Jonathan S. Rhoad, “Using technology to our advantage: Tales from a partially flipped organic chemistry classroom.” Presentation to the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Wichita, KS on October 18, 2019.
  • Gary Clapp “Treatment and Recovery” Opioids: Their Structure and New Pain Management Options” July 23, 2019.” Northwest Missouri Opioid Summit
  • Natalie Mikita and Merle K. Phillips*, “Cloning, Expression and Purification of DegQ Protease, a Bacterial Analog to Pregnancy Related Serine Protease (HtrA3).” Poster presented at the Experiment Biology 2019, Orlando, FL on April 6, 2019.
  • Samuel Rosario, Anthony Clapp, and Gary Clapp, “The effects of oxygenated water consumed pre-post VO2 max testing over five consecutive days in high-fit college students. NACSM (Northlands – American College of Sports Medicine, Spring Meeting, St. Catherine University, St. Paul MN. April 5, 2019.
  • Jeffrey Woodford, “Pseudo Jahn Teller investigation into the symmetric forms of cyclobutane and malonaldehyde.” Poster presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL on April 2, 2019.
  • Jeffrey Woodford, “Stereochemical analysis of saturated pyrrolizidine alkaloid diastereomers.” Poster presented at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Orlando, FL on April 1, 2019.
  • Stanislav Svojanovsky, “Impact of Distance Learning & Hybrid Teaching cCWCS workshop on our Chemistry online course.” Presentation to the ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Orlando, FL on March 31, 2019.
  • Michael Ducey, “Missouri Regional Industrial Science and Engineering (MO-RISE) Networking and Employment Event: A model for connecting students with regional employers.” Poster presented at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Ames, IA on October 23, 2018.
  • Natalie Mikita and Merle K. Phillips*, “Cloning, expression and purification of a serine endoprotease of Escherichia coli.” Poster presented at the 2018 Heartland Undergraduate Biochemistry Forum, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo on November 10, 2018.
  • Jonathan Rhoad, “Improved Understanding of Conformational Preferences of Peracetylated Furanosides.” Poster presented at the 255th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, on March 20, 2018.
  • Jeffrey Woodford, “Computational investigation of the pseudo-Jahn-Teller effect on malonaldehyde and cyclobutane.” Poster presented at the 255th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA on March 19, 2018.
  • Reid N. Brown*, Alyssa D. Jones*, Rachael A. Prawitz*, Makenzie M. Helsel*, Csengele Barta and Stanislav Svojanovsky, “The identification of partial sequences of pin oak (Quercus palustris) and post oak (Q. stellata) isoprene synthase (IspS) genes.” Poster presented at the Plant Biology 2018, Montreal, Quebec, Canada on July 17, 2018.
  • Csengele Barta, Brian C. Jenkins*, Mary L. Moor*e, Kerry D. Moore* and Stanislav Svojanovsky, “Elevated amounts of endo- or exogenous gibberellic acid alleviate the negative allelopathic effect of Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) leaf extracts on Field mustard (Brassica rapa L. var. rapa) seed germination.” Poster presented at the Plant Biology 2018, Montreal, Quebec Canada on July 16, 2018.
  • Natalie Mikita, Merle K. Phillips*, Jeremy H. Brown* and Jacob M. Hoppe*, “Cloning of a periplasmic serine endoprotease of Escherichia coli.” Poster presented at the 2017 Heartland Undergraduate Biochemistry Forum, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo on November 11, 2017.
  • Natalie Mikita, Merle K. Phillips*, Jeremy H. Brown* and Jacob M. Hoppe*, “Cloning of a periplasmic serine endoprotease of Escherichia coli.” Poster presented at the 2017 ACS Midwest Regional Meeting, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS on October 20, 2017.

Publications

  • Tamra J. Fisher,  Deepa Choudhry, Kaitlynn Derr, Soodabeh Azadehranjbar, Dan Staskob and Chin Li Cheung “Mechanistic insights into the acetate-accelerated synthesis of crystalline ceria nanoparticles”, RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 20515–20520.
  • Hiley, Shauna “Determination of copper and Faraday’s constant using a simple electrochemical cell”  Chem. Educator (2020) 25, 103-104.
  • Stanislav Svojanovsky, Alex J. Luke*, Sarah J. Fergione*, Riley Z. Wilson* and Brady L. Gunn*, Identification of Active Oligonucleotide Sequences Using Artificial Neural Network, Journal of Computational Science Education (JOCSE), 9(2) 2018, 30-36.

Funding

  • Gary Clapp, 2020 Heartland Challenge: Rural Entrepreneurship Consortium, Kauffman Foundation:  $73,500, July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021).
  • Michael Ducey, Gary Clapp, and Debbi Jeffries Mobile Job Center, USDA Rural – A partnership with the St. Joseph Job Center: $82,000 (August 1, 2019 – July 31, 2020).
  • Gary Clapp, @1st Century Community Learning Center Grant – Department of Secondary and Elementary Education (DESE), DESE: $2,000,000 (January 10, 2018 – December 10, 2020).

Honors and Awards

  • MWSU Graduating Senior of the Year, Missouri Western State University Alumni Association, awarded to Merle Phillips (BS Chemistry ’20).
  •  Nomination:  Women of Excellence Emerging Leader, Dr.Natalie Mikita, 20202.
  • 2018 E. Ann Nalley Award for Volunteer Service to the Midwest Region of the American Chemical Society awarded to Dr. Gary Clapp.

Media Coverage

  • Mike Ducey, Interview about MO-RISE 2020, March 3, 2020 with St. Joseph News Press.
  • Mike Ducey, Interview about MO-RISE 2020, March 3, 2020 with KQ2.
  • Mike Ducey, Griffon Lab Unveiling, December 11, 2019, St. Joseph News Press.
  • Gary Clapp Mike Ducey, and Janice Spearman, Interview about the use of the rebranded mobile “Griffon Lab” supporting NW Missouri’s job centers., December 9, 2019, St. Joseph News Press.
  • Gary Clapp, Discussed Earth Week on the Barry Birr Show, April 30, 2019.
  • Gary Clapp, Discussed the NW Missouri Opioid Summit and the devastating effects on family on the Barry Birr show, April 24, 2019.
  • Gary Clapp, Featured on a story about Medicinal Marijuana and the state Universities. The News Press Now (2/21/2019)., February 21, 2019.
  • Gary Clapp, Workforce Development and our Region, August 10, 2018.