A Celebration of the Class of Summer and Fall 2022

The Department celebrated the Classes of Summer and Fall 2022 on Friday, December 16, 2022.

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Formal Name	Degree and Committee Chair	Thesis/Dissertation Title
Allen, Zachary T	Chemistry-MS: David Shultz	Design and Characterization of a Ground State Analog of a Charge-Separated Excited State
Bai, Hongxia	Chemistry-PhD: David Muddiman	Three-dimensional Mass Spectrometry Imaging with Infrared Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Electrospray Ionization: Fundamentals and Applications.
Chau Nguyen, Khiem Duy	Chemistry-PhD: Jonathan Lindsey	Towards the Total Synthesis of Native Bacteriochlorophylls.
Echeverri Jimenez, Emmanuel Iamsun	Chemistry-PhD: Maria Oliver-Hoyo	A Virtual Reality Learning Environment to Support Students’ Abilities to Extract, Represent, and Predict Stereochemical Outcomes for the Diels-Alder Reaction.
Mellinger, Allyson Lee	Chemistry-PhD: David Muddiman	Developing High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Strategies for Studying Temporal Changes in Disease States.
O’Donnell, Shaun Christopher	Chemistry-PhD: Paul Maggard	Discovery of Synthetic Pathways to Metastable Oxides and Investigation of Their Photocatalytic Properties
Qiu, Xiang	Chemistry-PhD: Joshua Pierce	Progress towards the Total Synthesis of Curvulamine.

Formal Name	Degree and Committee Chair	Thesis/Dissertation Title
Doyle, Michael George	Chemistry-MS: Erin Baker	Evaluation of Anthropogenic Chemicals and their Environmental and Health Effects Using Mass Spectrometry.
Garcia, Jessie Marie	Chemistry-PhD: Gavin Williams	Improving the Scope of Transferases via Rational Design for Natural Product Diversification.
Gonzalez Delgado, Jessica	Chemistry-PhD: Reza Ghiladi, Stefan Franzen	A Comparative Study of the Backbone Dynamics and the Effects of Substrate Binding on the Dehaloperoxidase-hemoglobin Isoenzymes.
Kwon, Hyuk Yong	Chemistry-PhD: Elena Jakubikova	Electronic Structure Calculations and Reduced Dimensional Potential Energy Surface Construction for First-row Transition Metal Chemistry.
Liang, Zhanhao	Chemistry-PhD: Joshua Pierce	Progress towards Total Synthesis of Marine Natural Product Ansalactam A.
Machin Rivera, Roger	Chemistry-PhD: Vincent Lindsay	Addition of Carbon and Nitrogen Nucleophiles to Cyclopropanone Surrogates: Radical Ring Opening of Cyclopropanone Hemiaminals for the Synthesis of Fused Heterocycles.
Tobb, Joshua Lombardi	Chemistry-MS: Elon Ison	Investigation of High-valent Nitridorhenium Complexes Bearing PNP-pincer Type Ligands.