Former and Current Group Members
Faculty Collaborators
Wallace (Pete) Pringle, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, Wesleyan University
Stephen Cooke, School of Natural and Social Sciences, Purchase College SUNY, Purchase, NY 10577; Visiting Scholar in Chemistry, Wesleyan University
Herbert Pickett, Research Professor of Chemistry, Wesleyan University
Postdoctoral Fellows
Jane K. Rice, 1984-1985, Staff Scientist, Chemistry Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Gary (Smitty) Grubbs, 2011- 2013 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO
Susanna Stephens, 2017 –
Graduate Students
James LoBue, PhD 1986 Associate Professor of Chemistry at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Thomas Blake, PhD 1988 Senior Research Scientist, Battelle Pacific North West Laboratory, Richland, WA
Kimberley Grant, PhD 1992 Professor of Chemistry at the College Of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
Angela Hight Walker, PhD 1994 Research Chemist Optical Technology Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD
Wei Chen, PhD 1996 Data base administrator for the National Institute of Environmental Sciences
Michaeleen Munrow, PhD 1999 High School Teacher, New Milford, CT.
Ranganathan Subramanian PhD ‘03 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, Bihar, India
Lu Kang, PhD 2003 Associate Professor of Chemistry; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
Wei Lin, PhD 2005 Associate Professor, University of Texas Rio Grand Valley, Brownsville, TX
Andrea Minei, PhD 2009 Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department within the Division of Natural Sciences, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, NY 10471
Dan Frohman, PhD 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow with Peter Bernath, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Postdoctoral Fellow with Michael Heaven, Emory University
Brittany Long, PhD 2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Trinity University, San Antonia, TX.
Dan Obenchain, PhD 2016 Smitty Grubbs, Sean Peebles, Dan Obenchain, Rebecca Peebles; Columbus, June 2011; Alexander von Humboldt Fellow with Jens Grabow, University of Hannover, 2016 – 2018
Mark Maturo, 2015 – 2016
Yoonjeong Choi, 2015 –
Wilman Orellana, 2016 –
Undergraduate students
Deborah Ehrenthal, ‘80 Physician, Clinical Investigator in Women’s Health,
Christiana Care, Delaware
Charla Reinganum, ‘80 M.S., Northwestern, Environmental Engineer
(photo with Rachel and Dan)
Scott Halle, ‘81 Research Scientist, IBM Microelectronics Division
(photo with Caryn)
Russell Smilgys, ‘82 Senior Research Scientist, Science Applications International Corporation
Mathew Kohler 1984 Department of Physics, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA; tutoring business in Boulder Colorado
Aram Schiffman ‘85 graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder with David Nesbitt; Post Doc at Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore CA; graduate student, University of Chicago
Amy Andrews, ‘92 Mathematics
Brian Bean, 1993 Summer NECUSE student, Amherst College; graduate student, Stanford University
Aaron Schoeffler, ‘95 Biotech
Alison Keimowitz, ‘97 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Scott McCracken, ‘98
Edwin Contreras, ‘00
Eunice Li, ‘01 Graduate Student with Marsha Lester, University of Pennsylvania
Jovan Gayle, ‘07 photo: Wei Lin, Amy Stevens, Andrew Brooks, Jovan Gayle
William Ndugire, ‘10
Ross Firestone, ‘12
Chinh Duong, ‘13 photo: Chinh Duong, Pete Pringle, Stew Novick, Smitty Grubbs, Dan Frohman
Brooke Baker, ‘13
Lucas Hansen, 2013
Tyler Holzschuh, ‘14
Derek Frank, ‘15 Graduate Student, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, The University of Michigan, 930 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-1055
Eric Arsenault, ‘17 Graduate Student, University of California at Berkeley, with Richard Saykally
Robert Melchreit, 2017
Angela Chung, ‘18
Zain Khanna, ‘19
Joshua Signore, ‘19