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Alumni

Alumni list last updated in 2021.

To be updated soon with photos, more information.  If you are one of the question marks, please email etpapish@ua.edu, and let me know what you are up to!

Undergrads Joined when? Did research how long? BS when? Where are they now?
1 Chinonye Ekeocha Spring 2004 1 semester 2004 Pharmacy school?
2 Michael Rodig Spring 2004 2 semesters 2005 Eastman Chemical
3 Michael Taylor Fall 2004 1.5 years 2006 Professor – U of Wyoming
4 Robert Shawhan Fall 2004 2 semesters 2006 MD received, now practicing medicine
5 Finith Jernigan Spring 2005 2.5 years 2007 PTC Therapeutics
6 Bryan Klebon Spring 2006 1.5 years 2009 LaMotte Company
7 Brian Smith Spring 2006 1 semester 2008 USDA genomics research
8 Aaron Jenkins Spring 2006 1 semester 2008 DOD: analytical chemist at Naval Base
9 Brittany Rowe Summer 2006 1 summer 2007 Pharmacist with CVS, Charleston, SC
10 Kirsten Wells Fall 2006 1 year 2008 Lancaster Labs, PA
11 Patrick Fadden Spring 2007 1 semester + 1 summer 2008 MD received, now practicing medicine
12 Trisha Donahue Spring 2007 1 semester 2009 employed
13 Sean Gardner Fall 2007 1 year 2008 Grad school – U of Pittsburgh
14 Jessica Bongiovanni Fall 2007 2 years 2009 began PhD at Princeton, died of cancer during studies
15 Mark Mangir Summer 2008 1 summer 2012 Medical Lab Scientist, U Penn
16 Paul DeGregory Summer 2008 1 summer 2012 Grad school – UT Austin, deceased
17 Shannon Oseback Fall 2008 2 years 2010 Chemical Engineer – GE Power
18 Sarah Shim Winter 2009 1.5 years 2010 Dental School – Temple U.
19 Stephen Fredericks Summer 2010 6 months 2011 Applying to grad school
20 Russell Carpenter Winter 2011 3 months 2010 Research SUNY Binghamton
21 Lauren Reuther Spring 2010 two years 2012 Department of Defense
22 Keisha Lemar Summer 2010 9 months 2014 Regulatory Coord. U Penn
23 Mi Kieu Bui Summer 2011 six months 2015 Medical Writer, ETHOS Health Commun.
24 Jodi Kraus Summer 2011 two years 2015 U of Delaware – PhD program
25 Lee Serpas Summer 2011 1.5 years 2015 NYU – MD/PhD program
26 Hayden Truong Fall 2011 9 months 2012 Dental School – Temple U.
27 Anh Duong Fall 2012 6 months 2013 Dental School – Temple U.
28 Dave Charboneau Summer 2014 summer REU 2015 Yale PhD program
29 Katherine Jernigan Spring 2014 spring + summer 2015 Texas A&M Med School
30 Jay Law Summer 2015 summer REU 2016 Florida St. U PhD program
31 Nicole Chambers Spring 2014 3 years 2017 Med School
32 Anthony Curto Spring 2014 3 years 2017 U Penn PhD program
33 Katlyn Hughes Fall 2014 1.5 years 2016 PhD program
34 John Lundeen Spring 2015 2 years 2017 Med School – GA
35 Sydney Reed Summer 2016 summer REU 2017 student at U of Arkansas for Medical Sci
36 Samantha McKee Summer 2016 summer REU 2017 lab tech, Pace Anal.
37 Lindsey Taylor Fall 2014 3 months 2018 lab tech, Tusc. Eye care
38 Lizzy Douglas Fall 2014 9 months 2018 DCS co-op rotation
39 Courtney Thompson Fall 2014 2 years+ 2018 Engineer at Exxon Mobil
40 Jamie Tesh Spring 2015 2 years+ 2018 Engineer
41 Joseph Nelson Spring 2015 9 months 2018? Engineer at Tenaska Power services co.
42 Jillian Houston Fall 2015 1 semester 2016 Quality Assurance Overwraps Packaging
43 Jack Fitzgerald fall 2016 2 semesters 2019 Huntsman Advanced Materials
44 Jake Southern fall 2016 2 semesters + summer 2019? ?
45 Sarah Altman summer 2017 summer REU 2018 PhD program U of Illinois Urbana Champaign
46 Orrion Kuykendall summer 2017 summer REU 2018 Kennesaw State U.
47 Angela Hairston summer 2017 summer REU 2018 Adjunct Prof OK city commun college
48 Stefan Knorr fall 2017 2 years 2019 MD school
49 Anna Perkins spring 2018 1 semester 2021 UA student
50 Daniel Hayes spring 2018 2 years 2019 PhD program Purdue eng.
51 Breanna Holmes summer 2018 summer REU 2020 Product Manager at Unicorn Hits LLC
52 Courtney Dale summer 2019 summer REU 2021 grad school – Michigan State University
53 Emily Shrewsbury summer 2019 summer REU 2021 grad school – Clemson University
54 Alexa DeRegnaucourt spring 2018 2.5 years 2021 medical school
55 Thomas Cope Fall 2019 1.5 semesters 2022
56 Kierra Schmitz Spring 2020 1 semester 2022
57 Charles Johnson Spring 2020 1 semester 2022
58 Adeline Heeney Spring 2020 1 semester 2021
Graduate Students Joined when? Degree Year Where are they now?
PhD students:
1 Natalie Dixon Fall 2008 PhD 2013 Chemours Inc.
2 Joseph DePasquale Fall 2008 PhD 2013 Northeastern visiting professor
3 Sopheavy Siek Fall 2011 PhD 2017 Adesis Inc.
4 Dalton Burks Fall 2014 PhD 2019 Louisiana School Math, Science, & Arts
5 Jessica Gray Fall 2014 PhD 2020 Catalent Inc.
MS or other grad students: Joined when? Degree Year Where are they now?
1 WaiSum Li Spring 2008 MS 2009 Adjunct instructor
2 Tom Reffle Winter 2009 MS 2009 DOW Chemical
3 Michelle Livings Winter 2011 MS expected HS Teacher – NJ
4 Bill Hunt Winter 2011 MS 2013 Multi-Flex Plating Co
5 Jay Sacci Spring 2011 MS expected Drexel in MS program
6 Nick White Fall 2011 MS expected from Drexel PhD received (Bonizzoni group)
7 Corey Herbst-Gervasoni Fall 2011 MS expected from Drexel Temple U PhD program
8 Molly Lockart Summer 2014 rotation in Papish group 2014 PhD received (Bowman group)
9 Silas Brown Fall 2014 rotation in Papish group 2014 PhD received (Vincent group)
Postdocs Where are they now?
1 Mukesh Kumar May 1, 2008 postdoctoral fellow, research scientist Momentive, Inc.
2 Ismael (Sam) Nieto March 1, 2009 postdoctoral fellow Albemarle Corp., Baton Rouge LA
3 Salome Bhagan October 1, 2012 postdoctoral fellow Food and Drug Admin
4 Deidra Gerlach July 2014 postdoctoral fellow, cryst. Prof. U. of Wisconsin Eau Claire
5 Fengrui Qu November 1, 2015 postdoctoral fellow, cryst. Crystallographer at UA

 

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