The 2021 issue of ASTRA: McNair Scholars’ Journal. Contents: Message from Provost and Vice Chancellor Patricia Kleine -- Tyler Gonzales + Dr. Paul Thomas + Dr. Phillip Ihinger, Numerical Simulation of Atmospheric Passage ...

The Fall 2021 issue of Off the Shelf, Issue 94.

An abbreviated version of Off the Shelf for Spring 2021.

Catalysts featuring a metal center with a unique ligand allow for basic chemical research. One of the most known and used type of ligand are tridentate pincer ligands, but a less studied form is the flexible asymmetric ...

Coronaviruses are large, enveloped, positive strand RNA viruses capable of infecting a large array of mammalian and avian species that possess densely glycosylated spike-shaped proteins on their surfaces giving them the ...

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a pathogenic coronavirus in humans. Coronaviruses are large RNA viruses which contain spike proteins on their surface, giving the appearance of a crown and ...

The receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as well as the human cell surface receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme II (ACE2) contain several cysteine residues. These cysteine residues exist either in ...

With the rapidly changing and culturally shifting socio-economies and technologies of the last few decades, much attention has been given to the concept of community, its demise and fragmentation, and what can be done to ...

In this project, we study the binding of small molecules to xanthine oxidase (XOD). The molecules have similar skeletal structure to that of the purine ring with different peripheral atoms or groups. We will present the ...