Congratulations and best wishes to Jihyeon Yeo
August 2026
Congratulations to Jihyeon on her excellent dissertation on the development of new cobalt(III)-catalyzed sequential C-H bond additions to two different coupling partners and on her discovery of a practical and unexpected annulation for the highly diastereoselective synthesis of polysubstituted cyclopentanones. Best wishes to Jihyeon on her continued success as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Bill Wuest at Emory University.
Welcome to Chris Smith!
August 2026
The lab is happy to welcome new first-year student Chris Smith!
Congratulations and best wishes to Maria Vargas-Rivera
August 2025
Congratulations to Maria on her excellent dissertation presentation on the development of light-mediated highly stereoselective epimerization of pharmaceutically relevant endocyclic, exocyclic and acyclic amines.
Congratulations and best wishes to Jenna Cailin Molas
June 2025
Congratulations to Jenna on her excellent dissertation presentation on the development of transition metal-catalyzed N-H functionalization for the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant nitrogen heterocycles.
Welcome to Owen Beck, Isaac Miller, Emma Smith, and Justin Ye!
December 2024
The lab is happy to welcome new first-year students Owen Beck, Isaac Miller, Emma Smith, and Justin Ye!
Congratulations and best wishes to Duc Chu
August 2024
Congratulations to Duc Chu on his outstanding dissertation presentation on the development of several different types of multicomponent transformations for the synthesis of pharmaceutically relevant chemical structures. Best wishes to Duc on his continued success as a process chemistry scientist at Purisys!
Wolfgang Ph.D. Dissertation Prize for Nate Greenwood
May 2024
Congratulations to Nate Greenwood for the Wolfgang Prize awarded for his outstanding Ph.D. dissertation and academic work
Arthur Fleischer Commencement Award for Nicholas Cerny
May 2024
Congratulations to Nicholas Cerny on the Arthur Fleischer Award given to an undergraduate chemistry major for “outstanding performance in Chemistry”
Congratulations and best wishes to Nate Greenwood
May 2024
Congratulations to Nate Greenwood for his spectacular dissertation presentation on his pioneering research to develop approaches to privileged high oxidation state sulfur pharmacophores by S-functionalization of sulfenamides. Best wishes to Nate his continued success as a research scientist at Incyte!
Welcome to Zach Boyer, Kakha Davitashvili, and Julia Senkina
December 2023
The lab is happy to welcome new first-year students Zach Boyer, Kakha Davitashvili, and Julia Senkina!
