DOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDED
Summer 2023, Autumn 2023, Winter 2024, and Spring 2024
Alex Bard, PhD Chemistry
Probing the Interplay Between Chemical Mechanisms and Crystal Growth in Synthesis using Sodium Yttrium Fluoride
(Professor Peter Pauzauskie, Materials Science & Engineering)
James Baumann, PhD Chemistry
Copper Boryl Heterobimetallic Complexes in the Copper-Catalyzed Hydrofunctionalization of Alkynes and Alkenyl Boronate Esters
(Professor Gojko Lalic)
Caitlin N. Cain, PhD Chemistry
Advances in the Chemometric Analysis of Multiway Chromatographic Data to Improve Discovery and Identification
(Professor Robert Synovec)
Emma A. Cave, PhD Chemistry
Probing Fundamental Dynamics of Lithium-Ion Batteries using Vibrational Spectroelectrochemistry
(Associate Professor Cody Schlenker)
Alexander Filemon Dohoda, PhD Chemistry
Development of Selenium catalyzed Carbon-Nitrogen bond formation: Propargyl C-H amination, Directed C-H Allylic Amination, and Diamination
(Professor Forrest Michael)
Florence Dou, PhD Chemistry: Data Science
Designing Quantum Dot Interfaces for Photoredox Catalysis
(Professor Brandi Cossairt)
Forrest Eagle, PhD Chemistry
Turning InP up to 11: Coinage Metal Cation Exchange in InP Nanocrystals
(Professor Brandi Cossairt)
Jacob Finney, PhD Chemistry
Combining Research in Theoretical Chemistry and Chemistry Education
(Professor Anne McCoy)
Theresa Gozzo, PhD Chemistry
New Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Tools to Characterize and Differentiate Similar Proteins
(Associate Professor Matthew Bush)
Kristina Herman, PhD Chemistry: Data Science
Extension of the Many-Body Expansion (MBE) to Periodic Systems: Developing Tools to Analyze and Improve Models of Intermolecular Interactions
(Affiliate Professor Sotiris Xantheas)
Micaela Homer, PhD Chemistry
Photoinduced Charge Transfer from Quantum Dots on the Timescale of Chemistry
(Professor Brandi Cossairt)
Samuel Jahn, PhD Chemistry
Electron Spin Decoherence in Glassy Matrices
(Professor Stefan Stoll)
Laura Karschney, PhD Chemistry
Epidemiological surveys in India and marine natural product drug discovery for malaria
(Profs. Pradip Rathod & Ashleigh B. Theberge)
Cholpisit Ice Kiattisewee, PhD Molecular Engineering
Model-driven DBTL cycle acceleration with broad-host-range bacterial CRISPRa/i circuits
(Profs. Jesse Zalatan and James Carothers)
Lauren Koulias, PhD Chemistry
An Exploration of Theoretical Spectra
(Professor Xiaosong Li)
Xiaolin Liu, PhD Chemistry
Unravelling Photoinduced Electron Transfer Dynamics in Covalently Linked Bimetallic Complexes
(Professor Xiaosong Li)
Shutian Lu, PhD Chemistry
Probing The Dynamics of Biomolecules Using EPR Spectroscopy and Electron Spin Labels
(Professor Stefan Stoll)
Parker Maloney, PhD Chemistry
Applications of organochalcogen catalysts in C-H amination and substitution reactions
(Professor Forrest Michael)
Anna Merkulova, PhD Chemistry
Experimental and computational investigation of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals with excess charge carriers: effects of surface interactions on electronic properties
(Professor Scott Dunham, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Benjamin Poulter, PhD Chemistry
Understanding Valence and Core d-d Correlations on Ground and Excited States of Solvated Ruthenium Complexes with Novel X-ray Spectroscopies
(Professor Munira Khalil)
Emily Pruitt, PhD Chemistry
Elucidating the Mechanisms and Biological Consequences of Exogenous Fatty Acid Utilization by Staphylococcus aureus
(Associate Professor Libin Xu, Medicinal Chemistry)
Jason Sandwisch, PhD Chemistry
Investigation of the Role Nonadiabatic Energy Relaxation Plays in Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer using Multidimensional Electronic-Vibrational Spectroscopy
(Professor Munira Khalil)
Julian Smith-Jones, PhD Chemistry
3D Printing of Flexible Ionic Liquid Gel Sensors
(Professor Alshakim Nelson)
Milomir Suvira, PhD Chemistry
Novel Electroanalytical Tools for Probing Electrochemically Generated Surface Nanobubble Characteristics
(Professor Bo Zhang)
Margherita Taddei, PhD Chemistry
Understanding Photoluminescence Heterogeneity in Mixed-Cation Mixed-Halide Perovskites
(Professor David Ginger Jr.)
Tammi van Neel, PhD Chemistry
Expanding the Bioanalytical Toolbox for Cell Signaling and the Environment
(Professor Ashleigh B. Theberge)
Heidi Weakly, PhD Chemistry
Lipid membranes and the biophysics of protein-lipid interactions
(Professor Sarah Keller)
Sarah Marie West, PhD Chemistry
Studies of Semiconducting Ladder Polymers for Organic Electronics
(Professor Samson Jenekhe)
Muammer Yaman, PhD Chemistry: Data Science
Control and Prediction of Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticle Assembly
(Professor David Ginger Jr.)
Sarah Zeitler, PhD Chemistry
Using Piezoelectricity to Make Force-Responsive Polymeric Materials
(Assistant Professor Matthew Golder)
MASTER’S DEGREES AWARDED IN APPLIED CHEMICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Summer 2023, Autumn 2023, Winter 2024, and Spring 2024
Aaron John Adams, MS
Naod Semere Berhe, MS
Juliette Chisam-Majid, MS
Emma Coester, MS
May Constabel, MS
Programmed Temperature Electrospray Ionization (ptESI) for Thermal Cycling of Proteins
(Associate Professor Matthew Bush)
Iris Isabelle Elias, MS
Takaye Farmer, MS
Robert Chaiyo Halvorsen, MS
An Optimized Retention Time Alignment Method for High-Speed Gas Chromatography
(Professor Robert Synovec)
Santiago Henao, MS
TzuChun Huang, MS
Ray Joo, MS
Sam Landing, MS
Myers-Inspired Selenium-Mediated Isomerization: An Efficient Generation of Contra-Thermodynamic Allenes and Alkenes with the Potential for Reductive Deamination of Primary Amines and Metal-Free Hydrogenation of Dienes
(Professor Forrest Michael)
Owen Lee, MS
Jesse Lester, MS
Michelle Lu, MS
Yifei Lyu, MS
Wenjing Ma, MS
Layal Mahfoud, MS
Arty Manafe, MS
Yunsong Pan, MS
Predictive Modeling of Ionic Conductivity in Solid Polymer Electrolytes
(Professor Ting Cao, Materials Science & Engineering)
Christian Phillips, MS
Towards Molecular Dynamics as a Tool for Assessing Protein Designs for Stability and Function
(Professor W. James Pfaendtner, Chemical Engineering)
Md Mashroor Elahi Raiyan, MS
Direct Solution Synthesis of Transition Metal Borides
(Professor Brandi Cossairt)
Kate Riffle, MS
Andrew Shireman, MS
Halle Victoria Smith, MS
Kim Vu, MS
Computational Studies to Understand Nitrile Imine Reactivity in Photocrosslinking to Peptides in Gas-Phase Ions
(Professor František Tureček)
Bofei Wang, MS
Regio and diastereoselective synthesis of allylic amine through hydrocupration of terminal alkynes
(Professor Gojko Lalic)
Ting Wang, MS
Xintong Wang, MS
Chris Weir, MS
Katie Wu, MS
Qizheng Yang, MS
Designed Peptoid-Based Metal-Containing Nanosheets as Enzyme Mimetics for Catalytic CO2 Hydration
(Affiliate Professor Chun-Long Chen)
Shang-Hao Yun, MS
Francis Zhang, MS
An Investigation into the Formation Pathway of Peptoid Supramolecular Structures
(Affiliate Professor Chun-Long Chen)
MASTER’S DEGREES AWARDED IN CHEMISTRY
Summer 2023, Autumn 2023, Winter 2024, and Spring 2024
Ric Caporale, MS
Michaela Gustaitis, MS
Adelaide Levenson, MS
Ben Link, MS
Christine Morrison, MS
Alya Nguyen, MS
Emily Rathbone, MS
Anton Taraskin, MS