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!