Congratulations Class of 2019!
June 5, 2019

Congratulations to the Class of 2019! Join us in celebrating the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate degree recipients.
Undergraduate Degrees
Bachelor of Arts
- Emily Barritt, summa cum laude
- Travis Bean
- Cormac Berigan
- Anna Cheplick
- Clark Cucinell, magna cum laude
- Zachary Darienzo
- Luke DiPette, magna cum laude
- Grey Fritz, summa cum laude
- Courtney Harvey
- Mason Kapelanski
- Conor Kelly
- Muzzammil Khan
- Rhett Kiser
- Shalin Pregraves
- Joseph Re
- Ryan Robinson
- Sarah Ross
- Nina Vernacchio
- Yueying Wang, magna cum laude
- Laura Wonilowicz
- Christopher Wu
- Rachel Zarzour
Bachelor of Science
- James Alatis, cum laude
- Linda Allworth, magna cum laude
- Ari Chernoff
- Emerald Greene
- Rachael Langlois
- Quentin Loague, magna cum laude
- Justin Martinez, magna cum laude
- Ann Marie May, summa cum laude
- Alexis McCarthy, magna cum laude
- Steven Miller, summa cum laude
- Peter Moberg
- Mai Anh Nguyen
- Jonathan Roof, summa cum laude
- Nathan Sicheri
- Gregory Traversa, magna cum laude
- Isabella Ulate
- Andrew Williams
- Benjamin Zydlewski, summa cum laude
Graduate Degrees
Master of Science Degrees
Non-thesis
- Jeremy Cunningham, advised by Paul Carlier
- McAlister Council-Troche, advised by John Morris
- Brittney Sanfacon, advised by John Morris
Thesis
- Chengzhe Gao, advised by Kevin Edgar, "Regioselective chlorination of cellulose esters"
- Sarita Hough, advised by Paul Deck, "Regioselective, Nucleophilic Activation of C-F Bonds in o-Fluoroanilines"
- Spencer Shultz, advised by Diego Troya, "An Investigation into the Use of Density Functional Thoery (DFT) Calculations for Predicting Vibrational Transitions for Perfluorinated Sulfonic Acid (PFSA) Ionomer Membranes"
- Shaunak Shaikh, advised by Amanda Morris and Nicholas Mayhall, "Synthesis and Characterization of pure-phase Zr-MOFs Based on meso-Tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphine"
- James Steiner, advised by Feng Lin, "Understanding and Controlling the Degradation of Nickel-rich Lithium-ion Layered Cathodes"
- Nakul Teke, advised by Eduard Valeyev, "Explicitly correlated Green's function methods for calucating electron binding energies"
Doctor of Philosophy Degrees
- Lindsey Anderson, advised by Robert Moore, "Chemical and Physical Modifications of Semicrystalline Gels to Achieve Controlled Heterogeneity"
- Loren Brown, advised by Joseph Merola and Paul Deck, "Rapid Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Function of Rhodium(III) and Iridium(III) Chloro-bridged Dimers"
- Mingtao Chen, advised by Timothy Long, "Bridging Mesoscale Phenomena and Macroscopic Properties in Block Copolymers Containing Ionic Interactions and Hydrogen Bonding"
- Darren Driscoll, advised by John Morris, "Fundamental Spectroscopic Studies of Small Molecular Adsorption and Oxidation on Catalytic Surfaces"
- Christine DuChane, advised by Joseph Merola, "Synthesis, antimicrobial activity, and catalytic activity of rhodium and iridium piano stool complexes: Teaching an old dog new tricks"
- Maryam Ghavami, advised by Paul Carlier, "Antimalarial Agents: New Mechanisms of Actions for Old and New Drugs"
- Tyler Grissom, advised by John Morris, "Fundamental Investigations of Hazardous Gas Uptake and Binding in Metal-Organic Frameworks and Polyurethane Films"
- Katherine Heifferon, advised by Timothy Long, "Designing Functionality into Step-Growth Polymers from Liquid Crystallinity to Additive Manufacturing"
- Christopher Houser, advised by Gordon Yee, "Synthesis of New Molecule-Based Magnets using Bridging Organic Radicals"
- Kevin Kaurich, advised by Paul Deck, "Segmented Aromatic Polymers Containing Thermally Reversible Linkages"
- Hao Li, advised by Webster Santos, "Design, Synthesis, and Structure-Activity Relationship Analysis of Selective Sphinogosine Kinase Inhibitors"
- Shaoyang Lin, advised by Amanda Morris, "Functionalized Metal-Organic Frameworks for Water Oxidation Catalysis"
- Jennifer McCord, advised by Tijana Grove, "Protein Engineering for Biomedicine and Beyond"
- Hadi Mohammadi, advised by Hervé Marand, "On the Melting and Crystallization of Linear Polyethylene, Poly(ethylene oxide) and Metallocene Linear Low-Density Polyethylene"
- Ryan Mondschein, advised by Timothy Long, "Structure-Property Relationships of Polyester Regioisomers and Pendant Functionalized Polyetherimides"
- Chadwick Powell, advised by John Matson, "Synthesis of Small Molecule and Polymeric Systems for the Controlled Release of Sulfur Signaling Molecules"
- José Rodriguez Corrales, advised by Brenda Winkel, "Evaluation of potential photodynamic therapy agents and patient-relevant biomarker combinations for the selective targeting of cancer"
- Russell Snead, advised by Webster Santos, "Development of Novel, Regioselective Borylation Protocols"
- Samantha Talley, advised by Robert Moore, "Morphology-Property Relationships in Semicrystalline Aerogels of Poly(ether ether ketone)"
- Matthew Vincent, advised by Hervé Marand, Cryallization and Melting Studies of Poly(ε-caprolactone and Poly(ethylene oxide) using Flash™ Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Preparation and Characterization of Poly(δ-valerolactone) Fractions"
- Guanyu Wang, advised by John Morris "Interfacial Energy Transfer in Small Hydrocarbon Collisions with Organic Surfaces and the Decomposition of Chemical Warfare Agen Simulants within Metal-Organic Frameworks"
- Mingjun Zhou, advised by John Matson, "Elastin-Like Peptide Dendrimers: Design, Synthesis, and Applications"