Second Annual Sacramento City College Undergraduate Research Conference and Awards Ceremony

Our second annual conference has expanded into a second day, Thursday evening.  Last year's inaugural event was a complete success!

Schedule

Thursday May 15, 2025

5-6pm 

Opening Comments by Albert Garcia, President of Sacramento City College

Keynote Speaker: Osvaldo Gutierrez, Full Professor of Chemistry and the inaugural Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) Senior Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Faculty Director for UCLA

Read about Osvaldo's background here in English or Spanish.

6-7pm Oral Presentation: William Miller, Professor of Chemistry at Sacrametno City College. Title: Trends in the Refractive Indices of Binary Solutions of Linear Alkanes, Cyclic Alkanes, and Aromatic Alkanes

7-7:30pm Reception

Friday May 16, 2025

9:30-11:45am Poster Session featuring posters from SCC Students' Undergraduate Research Projects

Poster session is open to the public

Poster session sponsored by the American Chemical Society, Sacramento Section

12-1:30pm Awards Ceremony and Luncheon Honoring our Outstanding Chemistry Students 

Attendance at the luncheon is by invitation only

Registration for Poster Session

Are you a student or faculty researcher? Would you like to present your poster at the SCC URC? If so, please register here. Registrations are due by April 25 at 11:59pm.

For a poster general poster template: Powerpoint format, as a PDF, or as a PNG. 

For examples of past posters, please click here.

For more examples of poster templates/designs, please see this site from the University of Texas. 

Registered Posters 

1. Sohrabi Rad, Pooya; Moretti, Sebastian. Trends in the Refractive Indices of Binary Solutions of n-Alkanes.

2. Gonzalez, Stephanie; Oboh, Lucia. Trends in the Refractive Indices of Binary Solutions of Cycloalkanes and n-Alkanes.

3. Mansoor Ahmad, Nasir Ahmad; Young, Charles. Trends in the Refractive Indices of Binary Solutions of 1-Alkanols and n-Alkanes.

4. Vargas, Karla; Vukazich, Giulia. Trends in the Refractive Indices of Binary Solutions of Aromatic, Cyclic, and Aliphatic Compounds.

5. Cha, Madi; Bussey, Catie. Modeling The Refractive Indices of Binary Solutions Using the Lorentz-Lorenz Equation. 

6. Alcala, J. Quantification of CBD in Food Oil Extractions of Hemp

7. Munir, Y.C.; Bernardo, N. A. Comparing Methods for the Extraction of CBD from C. sativa: Conventional Reflux and Microwave-Assisted Extraction using a Domestic Microwave Oven.

8. Chang, Y.; Singh, S. Pesticide Residue Analysis in Cannabis using QUECHERS and SPE Extraction Methods, and GC-MS/HPLC/LC-MS.

9. Dawson, S. Components of Water Quality Analysis.

10. Leon, R.; Mckeever, M. Analysis of Pesticides in Cannabis Oil and Flower using QuEChERS Salt Extraction and Enhanced Matrix Removal-Lipid Clean up

11. Mansuri, A. Acid catalyst conversion of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) from Cannabidiol (CBD).

12. Martinez, R. Cannabidivarin Extraction and Isolation from Cannabis: GC/MS and LC/MS Analysis for Food-Safe Applications.

13. Ong, M. A Comparison of the Isomerization of CBD into THC in the Presence and Absence of a Protic Acid Catalyst 

14. Saechao, J. Solvent-Based Extraction Pesticide Analysis from Cannabis Using Solid Phase Extraction (SPE), QuEChERS Clean-Up, and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy.

15. Yuke, A. Comparing the retention of a terpene (linalool) using olive oil extraction and cold ethanol extraction

16. Godinez, A. Development of a cannabis extraction technique and modified HPLC/DAD cannabis method.

17. Sandoval, J. Microwave Assisted Terpene Extraction from CBD

18. Sparrevohn, R.; Mestidio, Z.; Rowe, A.; Arvizu, J.; Oyewole, M.; Jeswani, S.; Stockton, S.; Lai, A. Determining if Student Burnout Can Be Mitigated Through Active Participation in STEM-PAL.

19. Christofori-Munir, Y.; Coop, N.; Elizarraras, N.; Martinez, R.; Shaikh, T.; Resendes, M. Student Generated Questions: Measuring Comprehension and Confidence Levels.

20. Khodakovskiy, A.; Young, C. Computational Study on the Mechanism of Bisphosphine-Iron Catalyzed Multicomponent Radical Decoupled Cross-Coupling.

21. Berkstresser, N.; Lopez, E. Density Functional Theory Analysis of a “Hydride-free” Semihydrogenation.

22. Cha, M.; Rodriguez, O. Light-Promoted Bronsted Acid-Catalyzed Stereoselective Synthesis of Cis-Substituted Piperidones.

23. Shaikh, T.; Patel, S. DFT-Based Investigation Into Hydrogen Atom Transfer in Norrish Type II Photochemistry.

Sponsored by:

American Chemical Society, Sacramento

The Chemistry Department at Sacramento City College

The Sacramento Chemical Education Foundation

Organizing Committee:

Marisa Alviar-Agnew, Professor of Chemistry, SCC

Tonya Atkins, Professor of Chemistry, SCC

Bill Miller, Professor of Chemistry, SCC

Joel Hwang, Department Chair of Chemistry and Professor of Chemistry, SCC