BUCAS Students

Current Students

Patricia Diamond, B.S.

Education

• B.S. (Forensic Science), Baylor Univeristy, Waco, TX.

Current Research

• Near-Infrared Spectroscopy as a Means of Determining Postmortem Interval of Skeletal Remains

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Jody A. Harvey, B.S.

Education

• B.S. (Chemistry), 2003, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.

Current Research

• Spectral Studies of Enantiodiscrimination with Chiral Ionic Liquids
• Near-Infrared Spectroscopy as a Means of Determining Postmortem Interval of Skeletal Remains (MORE)

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Selorm K. Modzabi, B.S.

Education

• B.S. (Chemistry), 1998, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.

Current Reasearch

• Chiral analysis by regression modeling of fluorescence spectral data: enantiomeric discrimination via covalent diastereomerization (MORE)

Former Students

Christopher B. Davis, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title - "Application of Chemometric Analysis to UV-Visible and Diffuse Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectra"

Education

• Ph.D. (Analytical Chemistry), 2007, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
• B.S. (Chemistry/German), 2001, Baylor University, Waco, TX.

Current Research

• Classification of Textiles Using SIMCA Analysis of Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectra (MORE)
• Determination of Capsaicinoids in Habanero Peppers by Chemometric Analysis of UV Spectral Data (MORE)

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Jemima R. Ingle, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title - "Studies on Regression Modeling of Spectral Data as a Means of Chiral Analysis"

Education

• Ph.D. (Analytical Chemistry), 2006, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
• B.A. (Chemistry/English/Social Sciences), 2001, Howard Payne University, Brownwood, TX.

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Carlos Calleja-Amador, M.S.

Thesis Title - "A Novel Spectropolarimeter for Determination of Sucrose and Other Optically Active Samples"

Education

• M.S. (Analytical Chemistry), 2006, Baylor University, Waco, TX.

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Sayo O. Fakayode, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title - "Chiral Analysis by Multivariate Regression Modeling of Spectral Data of Cyclodextrin Guest-Host Complexes"

Education

• Ph.D. (Analytical Chemistry), 2004, Baylor University, Waco, TX.

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Dennis Rabbe, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title - "Practical Developments in Analytical Spectroscopy"

Education

• Ph.D. (Analytical Chemistry), 2003, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
• B.S. (Chemistry), 1970, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

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Karalyn Humphrey, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title - "Near-Infrared Spectroscopy–Comparison of Diffuse Reflectance Models"

Education

• Ph.D. (Analytical Chemistry), 2002, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
• B.S. (Chemistry, ACS Certified), 1997, University of Texas-Dallas, Dallas, TX.

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Olusola Soyemi, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title - "Design of Data Acquisition and Analysis Systems in Near Infrared Spectroscopy: A Virtual Instrument Approach"

Education

• Ph.D. (Analytical Chemistry), 2000, Baylor University, Waco, TX.