External Presentations by Undergraduate Students under my Direction

Shone, Billy, and Gourley, Bridget L. "Behavior of nanoscopic quantities of water in reverse micelles using NMR and fluorescence spectroscopies." Poster presented at the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry and Sci-Mix at the 251^st American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in San Diego, CA, March 2016.

Rodeman, Cole P., and Gourley, Bridget L. “Time dependent perturbation theory investigation of coupled Morse oscillators irradiated by IR picosecond pulse trains: Impact of bond parameters on ultrahigh vibrational excitation.” Poster accepted (and subsequently withdrawn when the student couldn’t attend) for the Physical Chemistry Poster Session at the 247^th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in Dallas, TX, March 2014.

Bush, Maximilian, Snyder, Zachary A., and Gourley, Bridget L., “Surfactant, cosurfactant and solvent influences on the reverse micelle environment: A steady state examination using Courmarin 343 and Reichardt’s dye.” Poster presented in the Undergraduate Poster Session at the 245^th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA, April 2013.

He, Qian and Gourley, Bridget L, “Reproducibility and optimization of aqueous gold nanoparticle (AuNP) syntheses.” Poster presented in the Undergraduate Poster Session at the 245^th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA, April 2013.

He, Qian, “Reproducibility of Gold Nanoparticle (AuNP) Syntheses.” Oral presentation by Qian He 2012 Butler University Undergraduate Research Conference in Indianapolis, IN, April 2012.

He, Qian, Capes, Daniel, and Gourley, Bridget L. “Gold Nanoparticle (AuNP) Synthesis and Biotinylation.” Presented by Qian He and Danny Capes at the 12^th Annual Indiana Local ACS Poster Session in Indianapolis, IN, October 2011.

Fransted, Kelly A., Cooper, Caragh T., Lynn, Bryce S. and Gourley, Bridget L. “Spectroscopic investigation of ternary CTAB reverse micelles in cyclohexane: Initial insights into the dynamics of water in these confined environments.” Presented by Kelly Fransted in the Physical Chemistry Poster Session at the 233^rd ACS National Meeting in Chicago, IL, March 2007.

Fransted, Kelly A., Cooper, Caragh T., Lynn, Bryce S. and Gourley, Bridget L. “Spectroscopic Investigation of Ternary CTAB Reverse Micelles in Cyclohexane: Insights into the Dynamics of Water in Confined Environments.” Presented by Kelly Fransted at the 7^th Annual Indiana Local Section ACS Poster Session in Indianapolis, IN, October 2006.

Turner, Andrew M., Amt, Erica, C., Houston, Christina, Gourley, Bridget L., and Jerz, Jeanette K., “Water quality in West Little Sugar Creek is recovering but still impacted by acidic drainage from the abandoned Green Valley Mine in southwest Indiana.” Presented by Andrew Turner in the Undergraduate Poster Session at the 227^th ACS National Meeting in Anaheim, CA, March 2004.

Amt, Erica, Houston, Christina, Turner, Andrew, Jerz, Jeanette and Gourley, Bridget, “West Little Sugar Creek is Recovering but Still Impacted by Acid Drainage from the Abandoned Green Valley Mine in Southwest Indiana.” Presented by Erica Amt and Christina Houston in the Environmental Geoscience Poster Session at the Geological Society Meeting of America (GSA) in Seattle, WA, November 2003.

Rickard, Mark A. and Gourley, Bridget L., “Vibrational excitation mechanism for HCN in a pulsed-IR laser field using Floquet and Fourier analyses.” Presented by Mark A. Rickard in the Physical Chemistry Poster Session at the 225^th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA, March 2003.

Briney, Kristin A. and Gourley, Bridget L. “HCN pulsed Laser Excitation: A study of Vibrational Dynamics.” Presented by Kristin A. Briney at the 3^rd Annual Indiana Local ACS Poster Session in Indianapolis, IN, October 2002.

Hatton, Olivia L. and Gourley, Bridget L. “Theoretical Modeling of HCN Vibrations Coupled to a Pulsed IR Laser: A Study of Laser Frequency Optimization and Post-excitation Energy Distribution.” Presented by Olivia L. Hatton at the 3^rd Annual Indiana Local Section ACS Poster Session in Indianapolis, IN, October 2002.

Rickard, Mark A. and Gourley, Bridget L., “Modeling of HCN Vibrations Coupled to a Pulsed IR Laser.” Presented by Mark A. Rickard in the Undergraduate Poster Session at the 223^rd ACS National Meeting in Orlando FL, April 2002.

Rickard, Mark A. and Gourley, Bridget L., “Theoretical Modeling of the Excited Vibrational States of HCN.” Presented by Mark A. Rickard at the 2^nd Annual Local ACS Poster Session in Indianapolis, IN, October 2001.

Burns, Jonathan; Seu, Keoki and Gourley, Bridget L., “Modeling of Laser Excitation and Energy Redistribution in Small Molecules.” Presented by Jonathan Burns in the Undergraduate Poster Session at the 221^st ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA, April 2001.

Tharp, Tim; Gourley, Bridget L. and Abraham, Neal, “Exploration of a Non-linear Chaotic Circuit.” Presented by Tim Tharp at the 1^st Annual Local ACS Poster Session in Indianapolis, IN, September 2000.

Burns, Jonathan; Seu, Keoki and Gourley, Bridget L., “Modeling of Laser Excitation and Energy Redistribution in Small Molecules.” Presented by Jonathan Burns and Keoki Seu at the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Posters on Capital Hill in Washington, D.C., April 2000.

Seu, Keoki; Burns, Jonathan and Gourley, Bridget L., “Resonance Behavior of Two Identical Coupled Morse Oscillators Excited by an Infrared (IR) Picosecond Pulse Train.” Presented by Keoki Seu at the Butler Undergraduate Research Conference in Indianapolis, IN, April 2000.

Burns, Jonathan; Seu, Keoki and Dibble, Bridget G., “Laser-molecule Interactions: Can a Vibrational Mode Achieve Ultrahigh Excitation Before leaking into Neighboring Modes.” Presented by J. Burns at the Butler Undergraduate Research Conference in Indianapolis, IN, April 1999.

Mendoza, Daniel and Dibble, Bridget G., “Ultrahigh Vibrational Excitation in a Rotating HF Molecule Irradiated by an Infrared Picosecond Pulse Train (IRPPT).” Presented by D. Mendoza at the Butler Undergraduate Research Conference in Indianapolis, IN, April 1999.

Hulsebus, Brian and Dibble, Bridget G., “Effects of Carboxylic Acid pKa on the Rate of Mitsunobu Inversion.” Presented by B. Hulsebus at the Butler Undergraduate Research Conference in Indianapolis, IN, April 1997.

Dibble, Bridget G., Waggoner, Melissa S., and Shirts, R.B., “Classical Study of the Vibrational Dynamics of a Morse Oscillator Coupled to a Pulsed Free Electron Laser.” Presented by M. Waggoner at the 23^rd Annual Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference, Madison, WI, May 1990.