Riordan Group

February 2008

Front Row: Tina Tao, Yingxin Huang, Joliene Trujillo, Piyal Ariyananda, Megan Shalaida

Back Row: Molly O’Hagan, Charlie Riordan, Steve Tereniak

 

Current Group Members

Graduate Students

Megan Shalaida

St. Joseph's University

 

Software: Microsoft Office

Piyal Ariyananda

University of Louisiana-Monroe

Molly O'Hagan

University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Joliene Trujillo

University of Northern Colorado

Yingxin Huang

Dalian Univ. of Technology

Undergraduate Student

Steve Tereniak

University of Delaware, Class of 2009


Jerry Trofimenko

Matt Kieber-Emmons was awarded the First Trofimenko Memorial Prize for his doctoral work on nickel-dioxygen and nickel-sulfur chemistry.  The Prize, to be awarded annually for creative inorganic synthesis at the graduate level, honors our friend and colleague, Swiatoslaw “Jerry” Trofimenko, the father of polypyrazolylborate chemistry.  Jerry passed away on February 26, 2007 following a long illness. 


S. Jerry Trofimenko


Collaborators


Professor Thomas Brunold
University of Wisconsin-Madison 
(Resonance Raman, Magnetic Circular

Dichroism, and DFT)


Professor Steve Cramer
University of California-Davis
(Ni XAS Spectroscopy)

 

 

Professor Codrina Popescu
Ursinus College
(Mössbauer Spectroscopy)


Group Alumni

Postdocs

Dr. R. V. Aruna (postdoc, 1994-1996) Research Scientist at Atul Ltd. Pharmaceuticals, India
Dr. M. S. Ram (postdoc, 1993-1995) Staff Scientist in Grain Marketing at KSU
Dr. Andrew Cottone (postdoc, 2001) Vice President, Chemistry, Adesis, Inc.
Dr. Alexandra Whalley (postdoc, 2001) Postdoc, Cambridge University

Dr. Yoshinobu Ishikawa (postdoc, 2002-03) Lecturer, Kumamoto University, Japan
Dr. Koyu Fujita (postdoc, 2002-05) Staff Scientist, Montana State University
Dr. Rangan Krishnan (postdoc, 2002-05) postdoc, Virginia Tech

Dr. Beaven Mandimutsira (postdoc 1997-2001; research associate 2003-06) Research Chemist, Lyondell Chemical Company

Dr. Nate Eckert (postdoc 2005-07) Staff Scientist, Shepherd Chemical Company

Dr. Jaehueng Cho (postdoc 2005-07) Assistant Professor, Ewha Womans University

Graduate Students

Pinghua Ge (M.S. 1996 (KSU), Ph.D. 2000 (UD)) Research Assistant Professor, Dept. Physics, University of Illinois
Carl Ohrenberg (Ph.D. 1998 (KSU)) Visiting Assistant Professor of chemistry at University of Toledo
Peter Schebler (Ph.D. 2001 (UD)) Senior Chemist with Midwest Research Institute
Ali Turkan (M.S. 1996 (KSU)) Ph.D. Biochemistry, KSU
Mike Coxey (M.A. 2001) DuPont CR&D
Jennifer Yamarik (M.A. 2002) ASDI Biosciences, DE
Janis Voo (Ph.D. 2002) Nanoscale Materials, Inc., Manhattan, KS
Sowmya Subramanian (M.S. 2004 (UD)) Ph.D. student, University of Georgia with Prof. Mike Johnson
Show-Jen Chiou (Ph.D. 2004) Assistant Professor, National Chiayi University, Taiwan

Julie DuPont (Ph.D. 2006) Research Scientist, OSRAM Sylvania

William Dougherty (Ph.D. 2007) Postdoc/Visiting Assistant Professor, Villanova University

Sharon Hatalla (M.A. 2007) R&D chemist, DuPont Deepwater

Michael Mock (Ph.D. 2007) Postdoctoral Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with Dr. Dan DuBois

Matt Kieber-Emmons (Ph.D. 2008) Postdoctoral Associate, Stanford University with Prof. Ed Solomon

Tina Tao (M.A. 2008) Laboratory Coordinator, York College of Pennsylvania

Undergraduates

Anna Browning – (KSU) graduate student, KSU
Heather Bunting - graduated UD May 2001; employed with Astra Zeneca
Mauro Calabrese – (UD) summer research student, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Julia Drewes – (UD) summer research student, BS 2007, Biology, Stanford University
Tim Hubin - KSU; Assistant Professor, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Julie Innocent - graduated UD May 2000; SmithKline Beecham
Gary Lee – (KSU) Nottingham Trent University exchange student
Melissa Fennemore - graduated UD May 2002; Teacher, Middletown, DE High School
John Maccri - graduated UD May 2000; employed with Barry Callebaut Chocolate
Brian Maduskuie - graduated UD May 2003

Charlotte Mason - graduated UD May 2006; doctoral student with Harry Gray, CalTech
Claron Ridge - graduated UD May 2005; doctoral student with Steve Buratto, UC-Santa Barbara

Mohammed Saleem – (KSU) summer research student, Oklahoma University
Jason Smee - KSU; Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Tyler
Joe Schmidt - KSU; Assistant Professor, University of Toledo
Gary Williams – (KSU) Nottingham Trent University exchange student