St. Lawrence University Chemistry

St. Lawrence University Chemistry Chemistry students at St.

Lawrence participate in cutting-edge research with devoted faculty mentors in state-of-the-art laboratories while benefiting from the broader liberal arts environment.

The final week of research is upon us🌟Dr. Oldacre’s students have been doing electrochemistry all summer. Ellie is worki...
07/20/2026

The final week of research is upon us🌟Dr. Oldacre’s students have been doing electrochemistry all summer. Ellie is working on a CV of our iron tetrahedron. Peter is polishing an electrode for an echem experiment with environmentally hazardous azo dyes.

07/15/2026

Getting to know the professors… if you were an element what would you be 🤔?

Summer research students and faculty took a day away from lab to hike and swim at Stone Valley. There were dogs, intervi...
07/14/2026

Summer research students and faculty took a day away from lab to hike and swim at Stone Valley. There were dogs, interviews and good vibes.

Six people might be too many for tiny lab but we’re keeping the peace. Syan, Elle and Claire are testing four derivativ...
07/09/2026

Six people might be too many for tiny lab but we’re keeping the peace. Syan, Elle and Claire are testing four derivatives of proflavine for possible anticancer applications. Our main methods are fluorescence titration, Van’t Hoff analysis, viscosity and melting points.

Dr. Lutz running temperature dependent NMR of the reactions made by Owen and Chase. A day with liquid nitrogen is always...
07/07/2026

Dr. Lutz running temperature dependent NMR of the reactions made by Owen and Chase. A day with liquid nitrogen is always a good day in lab.

Summer research is in full swing Chase and Owen are making self immolating polymers for degradable plastics with Dr. Lut...
07/06/2026

Summer research is in full swing Chase and Owen are making self immolating polymers for degradable plastics with Dr. Lutz; Elle and Peter are using electrochemistry to study dye degradation and battery technology with Dr. Oldacre; and with Dr. Glazier, Ana and Aurora are using carbon dots to detect environmental contaminants and Syan, Elle and Claire are studying the DNA binding of novel proflavine derivatives that could inform future antibiotic or anticancer drugs. Go SLU Chemistry Research!

New to St. Lawrence - a circular dichroism spectrometer- a generous gift from the chemistry department at Hamilton Colle...
06/29/2026

New to St. Lawrence - a circular dichroism spectrometer- a generous gift from the chemistry department at Hamilton College. Elle Waite and Dr. Glazier set it up today and collected the first spectrum of DNA. O we start running samples to study how proflavine derivatives made in Dr. Tartakoff’s lab bind to DNA.

Our new infrared spectrometer arrived!! Ana is the first user, also her first IR spectrum. Go Ana! Sample preparation wa...
06/19/2026

Our new infrared spectrometer arrived!! Ana is the first user, also her first IR spectrum. Go Ana! Sample preparation was an adventure because she needed to make a glass pellet for the IR using high pressure die method. The goal today was to characterize the carbon dots she made to hopefully detect microplastics like those getting into the environment and our bodies from plastic bottles (PET).

Summer research -Aurora left a reaction to make polystyrene particles overnight and arrived in the morning to find a pro...
06/18/2026

Summer research -
Aurora left a reaction to make polystyrene particles overnight and arrived in the morning to find a product that looked like milk 🥛 For her project, she is making quantum carbon dots to detect small amounts of the antibiotic tetracycline in milk - comparing milk form Spain and the US, which have different regulations for giving antibiotics to dairy cows.

Dr. Schmeisser, who coordinates the general chemistry labs, invited the senior chemistry major and minors over to Johnso...
05/13/2026

Dr. Schmeisser, who coordinates the general chemistry labs, invited the senior chemistry major and minors over to Johnson Hall of Science for liquid nitrogen ice cream to celebrate the start of senior week. Dr. Tartakoff can be seen helping with the fun part🍦Congratulations to all!!!

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