Chemistry

Congrats to our newest graduates!

Following the announcement from the President Clements, we would like to congratulate the graduate students that have finished their Chemistry degrees this semester:

PhD Graduates:

  • Beau Brummel: Guanidinium Sulfation Crystallization: Strategy for Enantiomeric Identification and Diastereomeric Resolution (Advisor: Dr. Whitehead)
  • Zhuomin Lu: Preparation and Characterization of a Catalase-Mimic Organoruthenium-Chloride Complex (Advisor: Dr. Tennyson)
  • Chandima Narangoda: Electron-Rich Alkynes and Azodicarboxylates Chemistry Towards Vicinal Diamine Motif Containing Small Molecules and N-Heterocycles (Advisor: Dr. Whitehead)
  • Manjula Senanayake: Solvent as a Tool to Tune the Association of Structured Ionic Block Co-Polymers: Neutron Scattering and Computational Study (Advisor: Dr. Perahia)
  • Megan Sibley: Conformational Studies Pertaining to Richman-Atkins Cyclization of Azamacrocycle Ligands and Developing Routes for Efficient Synthesis of 3:1 Cyclens (Advisor: Dr. Wetzler)
  • Ashlyn Smith: High Sulfur-Content Materials from Free Fatty Acids (Advisor: Dr. Tennyson)

MS Graduates

  • Geoff Chesser: Substitution of N-Methy Piperazine by Morpholine in Hoechst 33258 Analogs and Biophysical Studies of Rich DNA Binding (Advisor: Dr. Arya)
  • Paige Reed: Analytical Applications of Pyrolyzed Cellulose Materials: Protein Adsorption and Electrochemical Detection (Advisor: Dr. Garcia)

We wish them all the best and hope they continue engaged with the Department