Current Members

Principal Investigator

Karin Ruhlandt

kruhland@syr.edu
phone: 315-443-1306
fax: 315-443-4070
Office: CST 3-014C
Distinguished Professor
Dean of College of Arts and Sciences

Education:
• Vordiplom, 1986, Philipps-Universität-Marburg, Germany
• Dr. rer. nat., 1991, Philipps-Universität-Marburg, Germany
• Postdoctoral Fellow, 1990-1991, University of California, Davis
Honors & Awards:
• Fulbright Fellowship, 2013
• Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence, 2012
• NSF Career Award, 1997
• Karcher Lectureship, University of Oklahoma
• Visiting Professor, Monash University, Australia, 2003
• Visiting Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2003
Courses:
• CHE 109/119: General Chemistry, Honors & Majors
• CHE 129/139: General Chemistry Laboratory, Honors & Majors
• CHE 411/611: Inorganic Chemistry
• CHE 422/622: Inorganic Laboratory Techniques
• CHE 600: Inorganic Chemistry of Main Group Elements

Res. Asst. Prof.

Miriam GillettKunath portrait

Miriam M. Gillett-Kunnath

E-mail: migillett@syr.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN)

Ph. D. in Chemistry, Syracuse University

B.S. in Chemistry, Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY)

Collaborators

Damian G Allis (Computational/Theoretical Chemistry)

E-mail: dgallis@syr.edu

Ph. D. in Chemistry, Syracuse University

B.S. in Chemistry, Syracuse University

Graduate Students

Catherine Lavin

E-mail: cmlavin@syr.edu

B.S. in Chemistry, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)

Secondary non-covalent interactions in heavy alkaline earth metal tetraarylborates

Valerie Lopez

E-mail: valopez@syr.edu

M.S. in Chemistry, Syracuse University

B.S. in Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras, PR)

NSF-IGERT Fellow 2014-2016

Synthesis and structural studies of calcium phosphonate complexes

Cody Webb Jr.

E-mail: ccwebbjr@syr.edu

B.S. in Chemistry, Le Moyne College (Syracuse, NY)

A.S. in Math & Science, Onondaga Community College (Syracuse, NY)

Mechanism of formation for metal-organic frameworks

Perfluoro- tert-butoxide heterobimetalic alkaline earth bismuthate complexes

Undergraduate Students

Josh Woods

E-mail: jowoods@syr.edu

Syracuse University ’16, Chemical Engineering with a minor in Chemistry

S-block heterobimetallic pyrazolates

Brian Wilson

E-mail: wilsonbk@lemoyne.edu

Le Moyne College ’17, Chemistry/Chemical Engineering

Alkaline earth MOCVD precursors

High School Students

Kim La

E-mail: kimla@sry.edu

Institue of Technology at Syracuse Central ’16

Alkaline earth MOFs and MOCVD precursors