It’ll be a busy 10 weeks of summer with 6 students in the lab. Andrew, Qifan, Eman, and Joe are rising junior chemistry majors, and Kofi is a rising sophomore who intends to be a major as well. They will all be synthesizing crazy molecules, characterizing their properties, and generally having a wild time. These […]
Dan presented and successfully defended his Honors Project after an appropriate grilling by a friendly committee. We look forward to seeing his thesis on our shelves soon!
This year’s NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program applicant field had over 17000 applicants, many of whom are current graduate students. We’re proud that Dan was recognized among so many other qualified candidates. Congratulations Dan!
Our group continues to expand! Mohammed is a sophomore chemistry major who got into research by computationally evaluating his organic chemistry professor’s conformational analysis abilities. Mohammed will be attempting to synthesize some novel aromatic imides that he has been modeling over the last semester. Welcome Mohammed!
The group keeps on growing with the addition of Penny Kahn! Penny is a biology major and anthropology/chemistry minor in her junior year and she is excited to be enhancing her chemical skillset in preparation for a future career in research. Penny will be developing new reactions for the synthesis of aromatic imides. Welcome Penny!
A new Combiflash Rf+ is up running in the Cao lab! This automated chromatography instrument will hopefully lead to exponential increases in the productivity of the group.
The group is doubling in size with the arrival of Dan Lee! Dan is a senior undergraduate who is participating in the Macalester Honors Program for the 2015-2016 academic year. As part of the Honors Program, Dan will be synthesizing novel structures using alkyne metathesis. Dan comes to the group with previous summer research experiences […]
Dennis begins his independent career at Macalester officially on August 1, 2015. In the meantime, he has excitedly spent some time creating this rudimentary website. Hopefully it will be filled with interesting news updates as the years go on.