Ashley Ripple, who completed her senior research “Investigations into doped Fluorescence” with the help of a Palumbo grant. She had the following to say about her research:

“Fluorescence is an important topic that is generally covered in physical chemistry. This research describes the preparation and experimental setup for a combined physical chemistry and instrumental analysis lab. It introduces important concepts in fluorescence and the kinetics involved with it. The research is an investigation of doped ZnS emission wavelengths, specifically ZnS doped separately with aluminum, copper, manganese, silver, cobalt, cadmium, potassium, lithium, and iron using a spectrofluorometer. Fluorescence was only observed for the manganese, copper, and silver doped ZnS. Emission wavelengths for these three doped compounds was unable to be determined from the emission spectra.”