Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University proudly showcases the work of undergraduate honors students by sharing this collection exclusively with the ASU community.
Barrett accepts high performing, academically engaged undergraduate students and works with them in collaboration with all of the other academic units at Arizona State University. All Barrett students complete a thesis or creative project which is an opportunity to explore an intellectual interest and produce an original piece of scholarly research. The thesis or creative project is supervised and defended in front of a faculty committee. Students are able to engage with professors who are nationally recognized in their fields and committed to working with honors students. Completing a Barrett thesis or creative project is an opportunity for undergraduate honors students to contribute to the ASU academic community in a meaningful way.
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Sulfur oxidation is a process that is seen a wide variety of places. One particular place is Yellowstone national park where an abundance of hot springs are present. These acidic and hot places are prime locations for sulfur oxidation to occur. At a very basic level this is thought of as Sulfur, oxygen, and water forming sulfate and hydrogen. Many other reactions occur when an organism performs these processes, and many enzymes are used for this. This paper aimed to create, balance, and analyze the reactions involved in the paper Sulfur Oxidation in the Acidophilic Autotrophic Acidithiobacillus spp. (Wang et al., 2019) Once these reactions were balanced thermodynamic properties were found to evaluate the Gibbs Free Energy of these reactions. This allowed for a unique energy-based view of how this web of reactions relate to each other.