During the Summer of 2017, I participated in the University of Delaware's Summer Scholars research program. My project, sponsored by Dr. Jocelyn Alcantara-Garcia, was to study the degradation of quercitron dye using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS). Over the 10 weeks, my research partner Emma Heath and I prepared multiple samples for research, using cotton and wool fibers and a number of mordants, including tin sulfide, alum, copper sulfide, iron sulfate, potassium chromate and more.  We then artificially aged our samples in an over and analyzed our samples using HPLC-MS at the Winterthur Museum Conservation Science Lab and compiled data in an attempt to find the degradation by-products of quercitron dye. At the end of the summer, we gave a talk at the Undergraduate Research Symposium.