Week 11

STEAM Day was this week! I've been working with the STEAM Committee for months leading up to this event, so I was extremely excited. It came together great. It's one of my favorite events that we've ever had. Nearly every table  that I visited had information on available internships. The Department of Environmental Quality was there! I'd love to intern with them. The STEAM Club has been working on the music bench since nearly the beginning of the semester in preparation for the event. It came out great! We still have some finishing things. We couldn't have done it without James Peterson from the Chemistry Department.

I also did some SEM on 28 day plastics that I first treated with a specific detergent. From just these pictures it does appear to remove the biofilm more effectively than alcohol alone. There is still small amounts of biofilm on the plastics. It's become problematic for our FTIR because out spectra includes the biological material, and we are only interested in the plastic. We can't use detergent on an FTIR sample though. It works for SEM.