April 29, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS — A Trine University student presented her senior chemistry research at this year’s Butler Undergraduate Research Conference (URC), held April 11 on the Butler University campus.
Ha My Le, a chemistry major from Houston, Texas, presented her research poster on “Catalytic Oxidation of an Aldehyde.”
Her research showed that the vanadium complex can effectively catalyze the oxidation of various aldehydes (a class of organic compounds) to esters (organic compounds derived from an acid) at different rates.
In addition to Le, Trine University students Aliciajoy Proxmire, a biochemistry major from Hudson, Indiana, and Makenzie Amich, a forensic science major from Thorntown, Indiana, attended the conference, along with faculty members Steve Dulaney, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, Tony Layson, Ph.D., professor of chemistry, and David Quist, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry.
Held since 1988, the Butler URC allows undergraduate students from a wide variety of disciplines and universities to present their research. The event, one of the largest interdisciplinary undergraduate research conferences in the country, included talks in the morning sessions and poster presentations in the afternoon session.
Businesses looking to hire Trine University students or graduates for internships or full-time roles are invited to be part of the university’s Tailgate for Talent, which will be held along Thunder Drive from noon to 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24.
The director of Trine University’s pre-health professions and direct entry programs was part of a team that presented updates to best practices for health professions advisors and institutions at a national conference.
A faculty member in Trine University’s Allen School of Engineering and Computing has received a $5,000 grant to write an open education resource (OER) textbook for a new class to be offered beginning in the fall.