Recent News

Tis the end of summer and we wish our Project SEED summer research student Latoya Higginbottom the very best of luck as she finishes her senior year in high school and prepares for college. Latoya worked on the very successful synthesis and characterization of liquid crystalline charge-transfer complexes with Wongwit Lek Wongwitwichote.

Some pictures of Latoya, the boss, Wongwit and Rashid are shown below. We'll miss you Latoya, but we wish you all the very best!!!

Latoya makin' stuff!

What'd you do this time Lek!?!

Latoya hanging with the boss

We happily congratulate Ms. Sarah Phillips, who successfully completed her Masters thesis and accepted a position as Organic Laboratory Instructor at Hiram College. Way to go Sarah!

Congratulations are also in order for Dr. Timothy Smith. Tim successfully defended his PhD dissertation on July 21, 2009, and is now a postdoctoral fellow with Alpha Micron in Kent, OH.

Congratulations to you both!

Congratulations to Professor Susan J. Cramer who was recently promoted to Full Professor at Grove City College! Awesome work Susan, we're obviously very proud of you ;-)

It was a great pleasure to welcome and introduce Professor Matt Platz (Ohio State) at the University of Akron and Akron ACS annual Crano Memorial Lecture on April 15, 2009. Matt gave two talks, an afternoon talk on carbenes and nitrenes and an evening talk on his work in the area of blood transfusion chemistry. Both talks were of course well-received! Several pictures of DAM and Matt, as well as part of the current research group, are below.

Matt Platz and Dave Modarelli

Natalie Romano, Lek Wongwitwichote, Matt Platz, Dave Modarelli,

Jojo Joseph, Rajendra Acharya, Carol Shriener (l-r)

Dave Modarelli and Prof. Carol Shreiner (PhD 2004)

We also congratulate former undergraduate researcher Dave Matthews on his acceptance into the Pharmacy School at Ohio State - Congratulations Dave! We're really happy for you!