Undergraduate Honors Projects
This collection includes projects completed by Point Loma Nazarene University undergraduate honors scholars.
Affecting the Eating Habits of College Students: Understanding Eating Patterns and Influencing Factors to Create Effective Dietary Interventions
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A greater understanding of the influencing factors and eating habits of college students is essential in creating effective interventions. In 2015 Point Loma Nazarene University received a grant from the USDA to survey students' health. PLNU received the grant to participate in this larger study as an intervention school. Thus throughout the year we performed four different interventions, each focusing on a slightly different area of health. The intervention specific to this research project dealt with My Plate and portion control. This study looks at the results of that survey.
English
Type:
Research paper
WHDL ID:
WHDL-00014936
Synthesis and Computational Analysis of Novel IspF Inhibitors
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A potent inhibitor of 2C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate synthase (IspF) has the potential to serve as a new class of antibiotic. In this project, we explored the development of such an inhibitor using a mixed experi-mental/computational approach. A promising lead was identified using chemical intuition and previously published re-search, but it failed to show significant activity toward IspF. The computational results explained this unexpected lack of inhibition. The lead compound cannot adopt the anticipated bidentate binding motif without substantial steric and angle strain.
English
Type:
Research paper
WHDL ID:
WHDL-00014931
Tabs
WHDL ID:
WHDL-00015220
