News 2008 – 2007

December ’08
Invited speaker – Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Panel review member – Science Foundation, Ireland


November ’08

Invited speaker – “Main Group and Lanthanide Chemistry and Carbanion Symposium”, South Eastern Regional Meeting of the ACS (SERMAC), Nashville, Tennessee


Summer REU Program ’08

A big welcome to the students from SU and Austria who joined our labs for the summer – Michael Bagnall (SU Senior), Elizabeth Nagle (SU Junior), Elizabeth Ziegler (TU Graz)


May ’08

Welcome to the visiting students from Germany for joining the lab for the summer – Daniel Weismann, Graduate Student, TU Kaiserslautern and Peng Wu, Student, TU Clausthal

Congratulations to Dr. Miriam Gillett-Kunnath for bring the Graduate Student Marshall at Commencement and for the best graduate thesis award.

Congratulations to Dr. Miriam Gillett-Kunnath, Dr. Phey Zuniga, Dr. Marites Guino-o and Serina Clancy , BS, for graduating.


December ’07

Congratulations to Miriam Gillett-Kunnath on her doctoral thesis presentation: “Heavy Alkaline Earth Metal Amides: Synthetic and Structural Investigations”


November ’07

Congratulations to Phey Zuniga on her doctoral thesis presentation: “Progress in Heterobimetallic Alkaline Earth Metal Chemistry: New Synthetic Strategies, Structures and Properties”


October ’07

Congratulations to Marites Guino-o on her doctoral thesis presentation: “Placing Heavy Alkaline Earth Metals on the Map: Synthetic Access, Structural Evaluation and Reactivity Studies”


Summer ’07

Beam time awarded to perform experiments using state-of-the-art synchrotron sources at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) at Cornell University