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.