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

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.

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!

Old Dominion University Department of Chemistry held it’s third Reign in Science Day organized by Drs. Bender, Hardy, and Lambert. Our interdepartmental Science Ambassadors took the opportunity to teach local families about their STEM research through interactive and engaging research activities. Other activities included planetarium shows, tours of the building and a tie dye station! Click here to see us featured on the ODU website!

We are excited to welcome our new graduate student, Cylah to our research group! Cylah is a recent graduate of Biochemistry ODU and will be completing her PhD with us.

Join us in celebrating Shannon for her selection as a 2023 Graduate Summer Award for ODU. Shannon was selected as one of 10 students out of 49 applications.

Join us in celebrating Jennifer in her selection as the first ODU student to be chosen for a Goldwater Scholar award! Funded by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation and Department of Defense, Jennifer was selected as one of 413 students out of over 5000 applications. She’s even celebrated on our school’s website!

Welcome to the Lambert research group Betty, Joe and Jon! We’re all excited for the new projects you all will be working on!

Summer REU posters = new a group photo with all our Lambert group researchers!

Welcome to the Lambert research group Jhenna, Jai, and Jack! Its already beginning to be a great summer with you all!

Join us in celebrating Kosta for his selection into the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Grant Program from ODU’s Perry Honors College.

This past Saturday (9-18-21) Old Dominion University Department of Chemistry held it’s first Reign in Science Day organized by Drs. Bender, Hardy, and Lambert. Our Science Ambassadors took the opportunity to teach local families about their recent chemistry research through interactive and engaging research activities. Some of the research demonstrations included assembling puzzles of natural products (great job Kellen!), predicting favorite ice cream flavors using machine learning concepts (great job Shannon!), and other activities such as planetarium shows, elephant toothpaste and hydrogen balloon demos, lab tours and converting pennies into brass curated by Shayne and Robert (awesome job guys!), among others. It was a great opportunity to give back to the community and it was fun to see everyone having a good time!

Members of the Lambert group joined park ranger Jennifer from First Landing State Park to discuss educational outreach in the park!