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Knight Grant Results in Advancement of Minority Affairs at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo College, 1990-06-15)In 1990 it was announced that the position of Associate Provost for Minority Recruitment was created with support from a Knight Foundation grant. Dr. Sandra Greene was hired into this new position. The grant also helped ... -
Jeanne Baraka-Love Appointed Director of Minority Affairs at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo College, 1989-09-08)This is a new release announcing the appointment of Dr. Jeanne Baraka-Love as director of minority affairs at Kalamazoo College in 1989. -
"Stuck In-Between" : The Construction of the Tragic Mulatta in Classical Hollywood Cinema
(2019)Rather than creating a thesis that provides insight on the construction of blackness as a whole, the author ties an interest in the female experience and intersectionality to produce a piece that solely focuses on the image ... -
"Pieces of Home" : A Small Town Girl in Strange and Familiar Lands
(2018)The author explains the process of turning blog posts from her college years into an original work of creative nonfiction. -
"Fear and Breakdown" Two Stories Regarding the Breakdown of Identity as Social Role
(2019)The author explains the inspiration and influence for his two original short stories. -
Marie Laveau : Transgressing Powerful Gentility and Darkness
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)Marie Laveau and voodoo have been such great influences to religion, the media, and people. All the religious believers and non-believers have created their own perceptions of Marie Laveau based on her relation to Christianity. ... -
Food as Medicine: Nutritional Psychiatry and Implementation of Nutrition Education into the Kalamazoo College Curriculum
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)Open to the public at the request of the author 7/8/19. -
A Chemometric Model for the Rapid Determination of Phenolic Diterpenes in Domestic Rosemary
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Rosemary is a common household spice of interest due to its antioxidant properties, including specific phenolic diterpenes. These diterpenes are of interest to Kalsec because of their ability to act as a food preservative, ... -
Analysis of Drug Binding Modes with RNA using Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Through using the two-photon excited fluorescence method, the two-photon absorption cross section was measured in order to study the binding modes of different fluorescent drugs on RNA. Two photon absorption and time ... -
The Neuroprotective Effects of RS-127445 in a Glutamate Excitotoxicity Model of Caenorhabditis elegans
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Neurodegenerative diseases affecting the central nervous system are characterized by neuronal impairment or death. One mechanism leading to neuronal death in many neurodegenerative diseases is glutamate excitotoxicity. ... -
Optimization of the Allosterically Regulated RNA Aptamer 5GR-II for in vivo Implementation Using Fluorescence Detection
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Allosterically regulated RNA aptamers have been observed in nature and have recently been exploited to target specific molecules of interest based on in vitro selection. RNA aptazymes have been developed as a detection ... -
Development of an In Vitro Model to Predict Idiosyncratic Drug Induced Liver Injury
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Idiosyncratic drug induced liver injury (IDILI) is a major concern within the pharmaceutical and clinical community due to its unpredictability and harmful effects. Current screening methods for classifying drugs that have ... -
Enhanced Photoluminescence from Chromophore-Functionalized Gold Clusters: Mechanism and Dynamics
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Water soluble highly luminescent optical materials have great potential for applications in biological imaging and sensing. Among different materials, semiconductor quantum dots have shown sharp luminescence spectra and ... -
Reaction of the Small-Ring Macrocycle N,N'–dimethyltribenzo–1,4,7–triazacyclononatriene and Copper(II) Bromide Produces Three Distinctly Different Products, Including a Nitrogen Cation Radical
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)This work began in 2010 as an attempt to form stable CuII complexes with a small ring organic macrocycle, N,N'–dimethyltribenzo–1,4,7–triazacyclononatriene (Me2N3—CTV) and copper(II) bromide (CuIIBr); instead the macrocycle ... -
Synthesis and Purification of Nanoparticles for Theoretical Optimal Biocompatibility in Future Cancer Therapy
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Cancer, a leading cause of death in today’s world, threatens to kill and destroy more and more lives each year. With very limited options for prevention, treatment after diagnosis is a limited path for most patients, ... -
An Investigation into the Lytic Activity of Melittin-nNOS Chimeric Peptides
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Antibiotic resistance has become a growing problem in a world of prescription drug overuse and misuse. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) offer one possible solution. Melittin (Mel), isolated from bee venom, is a known AMP. It ... -
Reassessment of Photodissociation Product Vector Correlations as Influenced by N,N-dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) Conformational Changes at 355 nm
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Investigation of the photodissociation of a molecule can be performed by measuring the vector correlations between the parent molecule and its photoproduct. The dissociative process of dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) at 355 nm ... -
Synthesis of 6-hydroxy-2-(2-phenylethyl)chromone Derivatives as Potential Serotonin Receptor Ligands
(Kalamazoo College, 2018)Previous studies have shown that natural compound 5-hydroxy-2-(2- phenylethyl)chromone (5-HPEC, 5) acts as a non-nitrogenous antagonist for the serotonin receptor 5-HT2B. Additionally, a 7-hydroxy-2-(2-phenylethyl)chromone ... -
Design and Synthesis of 7-hydroxy-2-(2-phenylethyl)chromones as Non-Nitrogenous 5-HT2 Receptor Ligands
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)7-hydroxy-2-(2-phenylethyl)chromones are a class of non-amine, natural products that have demonstrated a broad range of pharmacological activities such as antiinflammatory activity. Following previous research conducted ... -
Methodology Development of the Conversion of 3-Methylxanthine to Theobromine by TcCS2 and Xanthine to 3-Methylxanthine by PcCS1 Using ESI-MS
(Kalamazoo College, 2017)Proteins, more specifically enzymes, are responsible for day to day functions of all organisms and for this reason they are studied by biologists and chemists alike to understand them. The fields of chemistry and biology ...
