The Department of Chemistry congratulates its students who received degrees at the Winter Commencement ceremony on December 10th.

• ACS-Certified BS degree
  • Jillian Houston
• BS degree
  • Shaw Klein
  • Amy Nealon, magna cum laude
  • Harold Sledge
• PhD
  • Ge Deng, Dissertation: Chromium: Binding Studies with Transferrin and Peptide EEEEGDD and Its Effect on Colorectal Cancer
    Advisor: John Vincent
  • Siqi Guan, Dissertation: Application of Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry in Protein-Ligand and Protein-Protein Interactions
    Advisor: Patrick Frantom
  • Thomas Hester, III, Dissertation: Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Electronic Properties and Dissociation Reactions of Gas-Phase Metal Oxide Nitrate Complexes
    Advisor: Daniel Goebbert
  • Huaiyuan “Ethan” Hu, Dissertation: Part A: Arenepolythiols Synthesis and Doping Study of Semiconducting Metal-Organic Framework; Part B: Mechanistic Study of the Bis(Trineopentylphosphine)Palladium Catalyzed Buchwald-Hartwig Amination
    Advisors:  Kevin Shaughnessy, Thomas Vaid
  • Archana Panikar, Dissertation: Metal Oxide Thin Films by Chemical Vapor Deposition for Photocatalytic Water Splitting
    Advisor: Arunava Gupta
  • Zhichao Shan, Dissertation: Surface Enhanced Nanostructured Electrode Materials for Solar Energy Harvesting and Conversion
    Advisor: Shanlin Pan
  • Minli Xing, Dissertation: Solution Structure Determination for the Cys74 to Ala74 Mutant of the Catalytic Domain of Zoocin A
    Advisor: Russell Timkovich
  • Dong, Wenzhao, Dissertation: DNA Complexes Containing Novel Aromatic Residues.
    Advisor: Stephen Woski