A Celebration of the Class of Fall 2023
The Department of Chemistry celebrated the Class of Fall 2023 on Friday, December 15, 2023. Congratulations!
Ph.D. in Chemistry – Fall 2023
Formal Name | Degree and Committee Chair | Thesis/Dissertation Title |
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Nancy Lee McLean Alexander | Erin Baker | Assessment of Environmental Contaminants by Targeted and Nontargeted Analytical Techniques |
Austin Browning | Thomas Theis | From SABRE Spin Dynamics to In Vivo Metabolic Mapping: Advancing SABRE Hyperpolarization Towards Biomedical Applications |
Miles Alexander Calzini | Gavin Williams | Probing and Engineering of a Tyrosine Prenyltransferase for Biocatalytic Applications |
Lide Cha | Wei-chen Chang | Investigation of Aziridination & Cyclopropanation Enabled by Non-Heme Iron Enzymes |
Tzu-Yu Chen | Wei-chen Chang | Study of Isonitrile-forming Enzymes and Their Applications |
Gregory Curtin | Elena Jakubikova | Photophysical Properties of Fe(II) and Ir(III) Chromophores |
Jeffrey Dylan Denison | Leslie Sombers | Untapped Potential: Electroanalytical Investigations into Opioid and Catecholamine Release from Adrenal Cells and Tissue |
Emmanuel Iamsun Echeverri Jimenez | Maria Oliver-Hoyo | A Virtual Reality Learning Environment to Support Students’ Abilities to Extract, Represent, and Predict Stereochemical Outcomes for the Diels-Alder Reaction |
Alexandra Grace Forderhase | Leslie Sombers | Simultaneous, Real-Time Detection of Non-Electroactive and Electroactive Neurochemicals Using Carbon-Fiber Microbiosensors Coupled With Fast-Scan Cyclic Voltammetry |
Eric Austin Gabilondo | Paul Maggard | Synthetic Discovery and Thermodynamic Stability of Multinary Sn (II)-Perovskite Oxides through Flux-Mediated Ion-Exchange Techniques |
Yuan Gao | Stefan Franzen | Classical Correlation Model of Surface Enhanced Spectroscopies |
Keilian John Macculloch | Thomas Theis | Advancements in Signal Amplification by Reversible Exchange Enabling a Broader Range of Applications |
Iuliia Mandzhieva | Thomas Theis | Advances in Ultra-Low-Field NMR and MRI: Experiments and Computer Simulations for Enhanced Polarization Transfer and Spectroscopic Resolution |
Paul Miller | David Shultz | Synthesis and Characterization of Donor-Bridge-Donor Biradical and Biradicaloid Complexes to Elucidate the Origin of Open-Shell Character |
Matthew James Pech | Christopher Gorman | The Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Azaacenes Toward Organic Electronics |
Kyle R. Penn | Vincent Lindsay | Controlled α-Halogenation of Alkyl Sulfonamides and Development of Highly Active Bifunctional (benz)imidazolyl-Palladium Catalysts for Application in Sustainable Cross-Coupling Reactions |
Ying Xi | David Muddiman | Method Innovations to Enhance Mass Spectrometry Imaging Measurements by Infrared Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Electrospray Ionization (IR-MALDESI) |
M.S. in Chemistry – Fall 2023
Formal Name | Committee Chair | Thesis/Dissertation Title |
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Cristina Veronica Archiniega Moscoso | David Muddiman | Innovative Platforms and Algorithms to Improve Direct Analysis and Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) with Infrared Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Electrospray Ionization (IR-MALDESI) |
Nicholas Koenig Canty | Wei-chen Chang | Deoxypodophyllotoxin Synthase Investigating the Pivotal Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation in Aryltetralin Lignan Biosynthesis |
Hunter Paggeot | Joshua Pierce | Progress Towards the Total Syntheses of Bisleuconothine and the Synthesis of Polycyclic Structural Motifs with Potential Antimicrobial Activity |
Alisha Marie Weinhofer | Joshua Pierce | Progress Towards the Total Syntheses of Bisleuconothine, Development of an Asymmetric Cyclopropanation, and Synthesis of Dual JAK/TRPV1 Inhibitors |
B.S. in Chemistry – Fall 2023
James Zackary Brittain | Newton, NC |
Isaac James Hickman | Lewisville, NC |
Ian Patrick Ireland | Kinston, NC |
Emily Piwowarski | Raleigh, NC |
Abdul-Rahman Sweilam | Cary, NC |
Cameron Wright | Wilmington, NC |
B.A. in Chemistry – Fall 2023
Arana Blake | Raleigh, NC |
Sydney Cawthon | Toano, VA |
Connor Larocca | Raleigh, NC |
Ryan Wands | Raleigh, NC |