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.
Staff from Education One, Trine University’s charter school authorizer, attended the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, from Oct. 27-29.
Members of the public are invited to join Trine University faculty, staff and students in exploring, discussing and playing board and video games during the annual Art of Games event on Nov. 18.
When Trine University’s string of more-than-99%-employment years for its graduates began, most of its current freshman class hadn’t started kindergarten.