May 2018 – Andy’s review on the Horeau principle has been accepted in Tetrahedron!
May 2018 – Bailey Brooks will be graduating from Texas Tech. She will head to the University of Houston this summer to start her graduate studies.
May 2018 – Awards, awards, awards! Four group members won awards this year:
- Ting Tang: Ginny Shen Lin Endowed Scholarship
- Lu Cheng: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award – Organic Chemistry (Spring 2017)
- Bailey Brooks: 2018 Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemisty from the ACS Division of Organic Chemsitry, 2018 Texas Tech Parents Association Student Academic Citizenship Award, Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
- Hyunjoon Yoon: Undergraduate Outstanting Performance Award in Organic Chemistry
Well done everyone!
April 2018 – Our review on synthetic work on the briarane diterpenoids has been accepted in Royal Society Open Science!
March 2018 – Andy’s computational paper on the mechanism of iodine(III)-mediated oxidative dearomatization has been accepted in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry!
January 2018 – Andy’s book Nonitrogenous Oganocatalysis is finally in print!
November 2017 – Rakesh’s paper is published in Chemical Communications!
November 2017 – Andy was named Associate Editor and Member of the Editoral Board (Chemistry) for Royal Society Open Science.
October/November 2017 – Ting presented a poster and Lu presented a talk at the 2017 ACS Southwest Regional Meeting in Lubbock, TX. Andy served as Chair of the organic program and organized two technical sessions.
Summer 2017 – Garett Garzonie joins the group as a Welch Scholar. Welcome!
May 2017 – Rakesh, Ting, Lu, and George presented posters at the TexSyn III Conference in Dallas, TX.
April 2017 – Rakesh presented a talk at the the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
January 2017 – Nick’s paper is published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry!
November 2016 – Andy and Rakesh presented work at the 2016 ACS Southwest Regional Meeting in Galveston, TX.
October 2016 – Jessica Cruz and Mingxiang Zhou join the group as first year graduate students. Welcome!
October 2016 – Brandon Nichols presented his summer work at the 2016 SACNAS Conference in Long Beach, CA.
Summer 2016 – Crystal Pang joins the group as a Welch Scholar. Brandon Nichols joins the group as part of the NIH Sponsored Plains Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program. Welcome!
March 2016 – Andy presented a talk at ISACS19: Challenges in Organic Chemistry in Irvine, CA.
October 2015 – Andy will be presenting a poster and a talk at ICCA 2015 in Galveston, TX.
October 2015 – Lu Cheng, Ting Tang, and George Page join the group as first year graduate students. Welcome!
June 2015 – Annie Zhang joins the group as a Welch Scholar. Welcome!
May 2015 – Nick successfully defends his dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Moon! Nick will be heading to Virginia Tech as a Postdoc in Prof. Tim Long’s group.
April 2015 – Nick’s paper is published in Organic Letters!
March 2015 – Savannah Henneke and Lydia McKay join the group as undergraduate researchers.
February 2015 – Rakesh Thorat arrives in the group as a postdoctoral scholar.
January 2015 – Andy is on the road and heading to Lubbock.
December 2014 – Andy’s paper is published in Chemical Communications!
December 2014 – Erik successfully defends his dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Goebel! Erik will be heading to Textile Based Delivery.
August 2014 – The group receives a grant from the NSF!
July 2014 – Karen successfully defends her dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Beckman! Karen will be heading to William Mitchell College of Law.
July 2014 – Andy and Kyle’s review is published in Tetrahedron!
June 2014 – Andy’s digest article is published in Tetrahedron Letters!
May 2014 – Kyle successfully defends his dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Kalstabakken! Kyle will be heading to Boston Scientific.
January 2014 – Kelly successfully defends her dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Volp! Kelly will be heading to 3M.
June 2013 – Kelly’s sorbicillactone tattoo is published in C&EN!
June 2013 – The group receives a grant from the NIH!
May 2013 – Rodolfo and Kyle’s paper is published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry!
May 2013 – Kelly receives a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship!
April 2013 – Kyle’s paper is published in the Journal of Chemical Education!
April 2013 – Nick’s paper is published in Tetrahedron Letters!
March 2013 – Kelly’s paper is published in Chemical Communications!
August 2012 – Kelly presents at the Abbott Scholar’s Symposium!
June 2012 – Kelly receives a Sigma-Aldrich Graduate Student Innovation Award!
February 2012 – Nick passes his oral exam!
November 2011 – Kelly and Diane’s paper in Organic Letters is in the top 10 read articles for quarter 3!
October 2011 – Andy’s artwork is accepted for the cover of Natural Product Reports!
October 2011 – Andy and Kelly’s review is published in Natural Product Reports!
August 2011 – Rodolfo, Kyle and Kelly’s paper is published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry!
July 2011 – Kelly and Diane’s paper is published in Organic Letters!
March 2011 – Pat’s paper is published in the Journal of Chemical Education!
December 2010 – Nick Moon joins the group as a first-year graduate student.
September 2010 – Diane receives an Honorable Mention for the Wayland E. Noland Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award.
June 2010 – Kelly receives an NSF Fellowship!
May 2010 – Karen passes her oral exam!
March 2010 – Diane passes her oral exam!
March 2010 – Will meets with Robert Grubbs and is featured on the U of M homepage.
January 2010 – Kyle and Kelly pass their oral exams!
January 2010 – Undergraduate Lylien Tan joins the group.
November 2009 – Laxmidhar’s paper is published in Chemistry – A European Journal!
August 2009 – Rodolfo’s paper is published in Organic Letters!
June 2009 – LANDO student Andrew Ross will be working in the lab over the summer.
May 2009 – Bryan and Amber graduate.
May 2009 – Undergraduate Will Wolf joins the group.
February 2009 – Erik successfully passes his oral exam.
January 2009 – Diane officially joins the group.
October 2008 – Kyle officially joins the group. Also joining the group are first-year graduate students Pat Lang, Alison Thorsness and Karen Beckman.
September 2008 – Kelly Volp joins the group as a first-year graduate student.
September 2008 – Erik receives an Honorable Mention for the Wayland E. Noland Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award.
July 2008 – Rodolfo Tello-Aburto arrives in the group as a postdoctoral scholar.
July 2008 – Laxmidhar Rout arrives in the group as a postdoctoral scholar.
June 2008 – NSF/LANDO students Megan Furner (King’s College) and Patrick Fahey (Washington University) will be working in the lab over the summer.
May 2008 – Incoming graduate students Kyle Kalstabakken and Diane Johnson will be working in the lab over the summer.
March 2008 – Bryan is awarded a Heisig fellowship for summer 2008. Congrats!.
January 2008 – Undergraduate Bryan Murray joins the group.
December 2007 – Zach Lange joins the group as a first year graduate student.
November 2007 – Erik Goebel joins the group as a first year graduate student.
September 2007 – Undergraduates Steve Anderson and Alister Olsen join the group.
