Date Received
Spring 2009 Semester Assessment Report Form
DUE October 30, 2009
Directions: Please complete a form for each of the programs within your department. This
form was designed to provide a format for assessment reporting and should not be used to limit
the amount of information provided. Each box that is attached to each of the sections is designed
to adjust to varying lengths. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Bea Babbitt at x51506
or via email at: bea.babbitt@unlv.edu.
1. Program Information:
Program Chemistry PhD and MS
Department Chemistry
College Sciences
Program Dennis Lindle
Assessment
Coordinator
Semester Data Spring 2009
Collected
Report Dennis Lindle and Larry Tirri
Submitted by
Phone/email 702-895-4426
lindle@unlv.nevada.edu
Date Submitted 4/14/2010
2. According to the Assessment Plan for this program, what were the planned assessments to be
conducted during the Fall 2008 Academic Semester? You may want to copy and paste from this
program’s assessment plan.
Which outcomes for
this program were
measured?
How did you measure
the outcomes?
What results did you expect? If the
students performed well what would
their performance look like, i.e.
percentages, means, or comparisons to
a national standard?
__4__outcomes out of a total of __4__ outcomes evaluated this semester.
1. Technical
Seminars, thesis,
Thesis ranking? Seminar assessment
competency
2. Language
Seminars, prospectus,
thesis, papers, oral
reports, surveys
Seminars, thesis
defense, thesis, student
prepared manuscripts,
surveys
Thesis defense, thesis
3. Analysis
4. Expertise
Presentations grades,
seminar assessment, paper grades,
pass/fail prospectus
Seminar assessment,
pass/fail thesis, publication reviews
Pass/fail thesis, thesis ranking?
3. Results, conclusions, and discoveries. What are the results of the planned assessments listed
above? What conclusions or discoveries were made from these results? Describe below or
attach to the form.
Results, conclusions, and discoveries
The grade distribution for the seminar series indicates solid satisfaction with graduatestudent performance with a large majority of students receiving a grade of A.
During the fall semester there was one defense by a Masters Student. See below for
details
Eight journal articles were published and nine papers were presented at professional
meetings with at least one graduate students listed as a co-author.
4. Use of Results. What program changes are indicated? How will they be implemented? If
none, describe why changes were not needed.
The program is running successfully.
No major adjustments are required at this point.
5. Dissemination of results, conclusions, and discoveries. How and with whom were the results
shared?
The results are shared and discussed with fulltime chemistry faculty.
Graduate MS Thesis:
Becky Hess, Identifying lethality and DNA repair efficiency in response to novel cisplatin
analogs in cancer cells (Defended 2-20-09)
Graduate PhD Thesis:
none
Presentations that list Graduate Students:
UMSL, March 2009- “Kinetics and Inhibition of Bacillus Spore Germination” - Zadkiel
Alvarez-Mallorga , Nadia Jiménez , Helen Luu , Denis Nformi
“Microscopic and Spectroscopic Studies of Metal Deposition on Carbon Nanomaterials”,
I. Tran*, R. Felix, Y. Zhang, M. Bär, C. Heske, and L. Weinhardt, New Diamond and Nano Carbons
Conference (NDNC 2009), June 7-11, Traverse City, MI (poster).
“Impact of oxygen-annealing on the morphology and chemical properties of Au/Ni contacts on p-GaN”,
S. Pookpanratana*, M. Bär, C. Heske, E. Dimakis, R. France, T. D. Moustakas, L. Weinhardt, M. Blum, W.
Yang, and J.D. Denlinger, E-MRS Spring Meeting 2009, Strasbourg, France, June 8-12, 2009 (oral).
“Chemical and Electronic Structure of the CdS/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Interface”, S. Pookpanratana*, M. Bär, R.
Félix, M. Blum, C. Heske, I. Repins, M.A. Contreras, L. Weinhardt, W. Yang, and J. D. Denlinger, 34th IEEE
PVSC, Philadelphia, PA, June 7-12, 2009 (oral).
“Impact of air-exposure on the chemical and electronic structure of ZnO:Zn3N2 thin films”, M. Bär*, L.
Weinhardt, S. Pookpanratana, K. George, Y. Zhang, C. Heske, K.-S. Ahn, S. Shet, Y. Yan, M. Al-Jassim, O.
Fuchs, M. Blum, W. Yang, and J.D. Denlinger, 2009 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San
Francisco, CA, April 13 – 17, 2009 (oral).
“Chemical and Electronic Structure of a-SiC Thin Films for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting”, Y.
Zhang*, K. George, M. Bär, C. Heske, J. Hu, F. Zhu, and A. Madan, 2009 Materials Research Society Spring
Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 13 – 17, 2009 (oral).
“Contact Formation on (Al, Ga, In)N-based Semiconductors Investigated with Electron and Soft X-ray
Spectroscopies”, S. Pookpanratana*, M. Bär, L. Weinhardt, C. Heske, R. France, E. Dimakis, T. D.
Moustakas, O. Fuchs, M. Blum, W. Yang, and J.D. Denlinger, 2009 Materials Research Society Spring
Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 13 – 17, 2009 (oral).
H. D. Mandal, P. K. Bhowmik, H. Han, and A. K. Nedeltchev, “Poly(pyridinium salt)s Derived
from ,-Diaminoalkanes: Thermotropic Liquid-Crystalline and Photoluminescence Properties,”
Polym. Prepr., Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Chem. 2009, 50(1), 250-251.
H. D. Mandal, P. K. Bhowmik, H. Han, A. K. Nedeltchev, J. A. Jimenez-Hernandez, and P. M.
McGannon, “Poly(pyridinium salt)s with Organic Counterions Derived from Aromatic
Diamine Containing Tetraethyleneoxy Unit Exhibiting Thermotropic Liquid- Crystalline and
Photoluminescence Properties,” Polym. Prepr., Am. Chem. Soc. Div. Polym. Chem. 2009,
50(1), 252-253.
Publications that list Graduate Students:
T. S. Jo, M. Yang, L. V. Brownell, C. Bae, "Synthesis of Quaternary Ammonium Ion–Grafted
Polyolefins via Activation of Inert C–H Bonds and Nitroxide Mediated Radical Polymerization "
J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 2009, 47, 4519–4531.
T. S. Jo, S. H. Kim, J. Shin, C. Bae, "Highly Efficient Incorporation of Functional Groups into
Aromatic Main-Chain Polymer Using Iridium-Catalyzed C–H Activation and Suzuki-Miyaura
Reaction" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 1656–1657.
P. K. Bhowmik, A. K. Nedeltchev, and H. Han, “Synthesis, Thermal and Light-Emitting
Properties of Anthracene Derivatives,” Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 2009, 498, 125137.
“Impact of air-exposure on the chemical and electronic structure of ZnO:Zn3N2 thin films”,
M. Bär, K.-S. Ahn, Y. Yan, L. Weinhardt, O. Fuchs, M. Blum, K. George, S. Pookpanratana, W.
Yang, J.D. Denlinger, M. Al-Jassim, and C. Heske,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 012110 (2009). (3 pages)
“Spectroscopic Analysis of the Chemical Structure at the CdS/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Interface in HighEfficiency Solar Cell Devices”,
S. Pookpanratana, I. Repins, M. Bär, R. Félix, M. Blum, L. Weinhardt, W. Yang, J.D. Denlinger,
M.A. Contreras, and C. Heske,
Proceedings 34th IEEE PVSC, Philadelphia, PA, June 2009, p. 1060-1063.
“Migration and Oxidation of Sulfur at the Back Contact in CdTe Cells”,
X. Liu, N.R. Paudel, A.D. Compaan, K. Sun, L. Weinhardt, M. Bär, S. Pookpanratana, C. Heske,
O. Fuchs, W. Yang, and J.D. Denlinger,
Proceedings 34th IEEE PVSC, Philadelphia, PA, June 2009, p. 2107-2110.
Dodatko T, Akoachere M, Muehlbauer SM, Helfrich F, Howerton A, Ross C, Wysock V,
Brojatsch J, Abel-Santos E: Bacillus cereus spores release alanine that synergizes with
inosine to promote germination. PLoS ONE 2009, 4 (7):e6398.
Authors: Kelly K. McGrath, Kyoungmi Jang, Kathleen A. Robins, and Dong-Chan Lee*
Title: Substituent Effect on the Electronic Properties and Morphologies of Self-Assembling
Bisphenazine Derivatives
Journal: Chemistry-A European Journal 2009, 15, 4070-4077.