Meet The Group

Last update: 2/22/24.

Undergraduate Students:

Above: Patrick Pridemore (catalysis), Annie Garness (anticancer – spectroscopy), Caleb Buell (anticancer- spectroscopy), Chandni Bhat (anticancer – spectroscopy), Emily Schmitt (anticancer – spectroscopy),  Elena Kuehner (anticancer – synthesis).

Graduate Students:

Wenzhi Yao has a BS from the University of Alabama and he is working on catalyst synthesis and catalysis.

Olaitan Oladipupo (MS) is working on the ruthenium anticancer project. She has BS and MS degrees from University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Weerachai Silprakob (BS, MS in Organic Chemistry from Mahidol University, Thailand) is working on the catalysis project including macrocyclic ligands. He holds a Royal Thai scholarship.

Sonya Manafe (BS) is working on the catalysis project with a focus on Nickel. She has a BS degree from Catholic University of Widya Mandira Kupang, Indonesia and has a grant from Indonesian Endowment Fund for her education.

Md. Kausar Ahmed (BS, MS, Shahjalal Univ. of Science and Tech. and Bangladesh Univ. of Engineering and Tech.) is working on catalysis with a focus on Co(I) complex synthesis and mechanistic studies.

Rifat Ara Masud (BS, MS, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) is working on the ruthenium anticancer project.

Brendan Pang (BS, Temple University) is working on ruthenium complex synthesis for catalysis.

David Muthama (BS, MS, Egerton University, Kenya) is working on ruthenium complex synthesis for anticancer applications and for cellular studies.

Group photo from 2016

 

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