To Chemistry Faculty, Staff and Students:
We are very pleased to announce that:
Emmanuel Ramsey Buabeng (#282 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled " RATIONAL DESIGN OF SMALL BIOPROBES FOR MEDICAL APPLICATION " on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 under the direction of Dr. Maged Henary. Committee: Drs. Maged Henary (Chair), Donald Hamelberg, Suazette Mooring.
Seth Filbrun (#283 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Revealing Plasmonic Coupling of Gold Nanoparticles On a Mirror Using Spectromicroscopy” on April 7, 2022. Committee: Drs. Gangli Wang, Ning Fang, Samer Gozem, Shahab Shamsi.
Kenneth Huang (#284 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "The Importance of Fitting In: Investigating the Role of Protein Dynamics in DNA Sequence Specificity” on April 19, 2022, under the direction of Dr. Gregory Poon. Committee: Drs. Poon (Chair), Wilson, Gozem, and Ivanov.
Ruochuan Liu (#285 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Profiling Substrates of HECT and RBR Type E3 Ligases by Orthogonal Ubiquitin Transfer Cascade” on April 27, 2022, under the direction of Dr. Jun Yin. Committee: Drs. Yin Chair), Yang, and Mabb.
Deborah Santos (#286 Ph.D. awarded by Chemistry) successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation titled "Defining and Describing the Complex Nature of Undergraduates’ Chemistry-Specific Mindset Beliefs on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, under the direction of Dr. Suazette Mooring. Committee: Drs. Suazette Mooring (Chair), Samer Gozem, Hong Li, and Jack Barbera (Portland State University).
Please join the department in congratulating them!