We would like to congratulate Dr. Shannon Stephens on receiving a position at Constellation in Rochester, NY. We are so proud of you and wish you the best of luck!

Two of our undergraduates, Olivia and Sara, received poster awards at the ODU-Hampton Roads Joint Poster Symposium at ODU. They placed second and fifth, respectively. Excellent work!

We would like to congratulate Dr. Shannon Stephens and Karen Vargas on their graduation from ODU! We are looking forward to see what they accomplish in the future and wish them the best of luck!

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our three new graduate students, Lian, Hammad, and Hamna! All three plan on obtaining their PhD in chemistry at ODU. We are excited to see your research progress and wish you all the best of luck!

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Lambert has received a ACS GCI ignition grant on our sustainable cobalt catalysis!

We would like to congratulate Dr. Shannon Stephens on a successfully defending her PhD thesis! We are very proud of all your hard work, and are excited to see what you accomplish in the future!

Dr. Lambert and our first-year graduate student Kyle Kellar attended the Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (SERMACS) in Orlando, FL. Kyle gave a poster presentation on the total synthesis of a triterpenoid natural product.

Our undergraduate student Sara Radwan has received the Honor Creativity Award from ODU! We are so proud of you Sara, and our looking forward to your continued hard work!

The Lambert Group was very well represented at the ACS National Meeting in Washington, D.C. All of our graduate students, Cylah, Shayne, Shannon, and Karen, our undergraduate students Olivia, Sara, and Gloria, and our Project SEED student Micah all presented talks or posters! We are proud of all of our students’ excellent work in their research!

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Kyle Lambert has received a Division of Organic Chemistry Young Investigator Symposium (DOC YIS) award! He presented our new cobalt-catalyzed methods at the ACS national meeting in Washington, D.C. Check it out here!

Way to go Olivia! She was just interviewed by the local WAVY 10 news regarding her research! Check out the local news story on her research here!

We are proud to announce that our very own Olivia Brown was featured in an ODU article, where they acknowledged her hard work in achieving the ACS SURF fellowship! Check it out here!

We would like to welcome Kyle Kellar to the Lambert Group! Kyle obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from Campbell University in May 2025 and joined our group shortly thereafter. Kyle will be trying to obtain his PhD in chemistry. He will be working on total synthesis projects in our lab.

The Lambert Group is proud to participate in the Project SEED program, which allows high school students to obtain useful research experience. We would like to warmly welcome Micah and Renee, two senior high school students! They will be conducting research in the Lambert Lab for the summer.

The Lambert Group was well represented at the Virginia Academy of Science Annual Meeting at UVA, where Shayne, Aiden, Olivia, and Gloria all gave presentations!

Congratulations to Shannon, who just published her paper on The Importance of Atomic Charges for Predicting Site-Selective Ir-, Ru-, and Rh-Catalyzed C–H Borylations in the Journal of Organic Chemistry!

Congratulations to Olivia Brown, who was awarded the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award! Olivia was one of sixteen students to achieve this award! Great job Olivia!

We have three new undergrads joining our lab this semester, welcome Gloria, Aiden and Sara!

Congratulations to two of our undergrads, Olivia and Jon, for winning the best student poster award at the local Hampton Roads ACS Research Symposium! We are all very proud of your hard work!

We’re all so excited to receive the NASA – Virginia Space Grant Consortium 2025 New Investigator award! This grant will fund our exciting summer research program synthesizing models for lignin oxidation.

Join us in congratulating Stephonda on becoming the second ever recipient of the Perisie Scholarship! Her award will cover all tuition and living expenses to attend Eastern Virginia Medical School this fall. We’re so proud of you Stephonda! [link]

Welcome James, our newest member to our research group.

Congratulations to Dr. Jean Bray on obtaining her new job at Bedoukian Research Inc. as a process chemist! We are so proud of you, and wish you the best of luck!

Join us in welcoming our newest undergraduate students, Hafsah and Olivia! They are excited to start working on our new Forensic chemistry curriculum.

Join us in celebrating our graduate researcher, Shannon Stephens. Shannon was very recently selected as a VSGC Graduate Research Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year, through Virginia Space Grant Consortium. Her research will focus on computationally modeling changes in dissolved organic carbon as it travels through water ways and into the ocean.

Join us in congratulating Jennifer in graduating with a double major in both Chemistry and Biochemistry! Jennifer plans to matriculate as a master’s student this Fall at ODU.

Congratulations Dr. Lambert on receiving the College of Sciences 2023-2024 Outreach Award for his work in organizing ODU’s Reign in Science event!

Congratulation’s to our previous group member Gessica Adorato on being chosen as a NSF GFRP graduate student fellow! Good luck on all of your research at University of Pittsburg.

Check out our new publication “Green Oxidation of Aromatic Hydrazide Derivatives Using an Oxoammonium Salt”. This work was in collaboration with the Milligan group at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. Congrats Shannon and Shayne on the good work.

Check out our new publication “Advancements in the synthesis of polyoxygenated oxepanes and thiepanes for applications to natural product”. Congrats Shayne on completing such a thorough review article!