Riordan Group

January 2009

Front Row: Joliene Trujillo, Yingxin Huang, Piyal Ariyananda, Megan Shalaida, Srimoyee Dasgupta, Mike Dao

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

 

Current Group Members

Graduate Students

            Software: Microsoft Office

 Megan Shalaida                             Piyal Ariyananda

     St. Joseph's University              University of Louisiana-Monroe

              

Molly O'Hagan                                 Joliene Trujillo

University of Wisconsin-River Falls         University of Northern Colorado

 

                     AppleMark

Yingxin Huang                          Bill Green

Dalian Univ. of Technology               Rowan University

 

AppleMark
                       AppleMark

    Mike Dao                           Srimoyee Dasgupta

LaSalle University                    University of Delhi

 


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, Primet Precision Materials

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 1996 graduate student, KSU
Heather Bunting – UD 2001; employed with Astra Zeneca
Mauro Calabrese – summer research student (UD 1999), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2001
Julia Drewes – summer research student (UD 2005), Biology, Stanford University, BS 2007
Tim Hubin – KSU 1994; Assistant Professor, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Julie Innocent - UD May 2000; SmithKline Beecham
Gary Lee –summer research student (KSU 1993), Nottingham Trent University exchange student
Melissa Fennemore - UD 2002; Teacher, Middletown, DE High School
John Maccri - UD 2000; employed with Barry Callebaut Chocolate
Brian Maduskuie - UD 2003

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

Mohammed Saleem – KSU summer research student (KSU 1994), Oklahoma University
Jason Smee – KSU 1994; Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Tyler
Joe Schmidt – KSU 1997; Assistant Professor, University of Toledo

Stephen Tereniak – UD, 2009; doctoral student, University of Minnesota
Gary Williams – summer research student (KSU 1994) Nottingham Trent University exchange student