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2024-2025
The Chemii end-of-year banquet was held in the Tippi Alumni center in May 2025 just prior to graduation. Graduating seniors are pictured above. The seniors put together paper-plate awards for the faculty and Tim received the Plate Rick Award because the lab is filled with "colorful solutions and questionable engineering fixes."
The end of the spring semester is the time for graduate school and summer internship offers. In a remarkably challenging past few months for science, with rescinded graduate school offers and loss of funding for NSF-REU sites, I'm pleased to report that all members of the Chapp lab have offers in hand!
Dilani Frorup ('25) has accepted a graduate school offer from UC Riverside
Kat Lynch ('25) has also accepted a graduate school offer at UC Riverside
Both Kat and Dilani will pursue PhD's in inorganic chemistry
Sophie Mackley ('27) has an internship at Oak Ridge National Lab with Dr. Santa Jansone-Popova working on recovery of rare earth metals.
Sam Oakes ('27) has an internship at the Colorado School of Mines working with Dr. Jihye Kim on battery recycling.
Shyann Rulander ('27) has an internship at SUNY Binghamton and was recently featured in this news release about her summer work.
Pictured above are (left to right ): Kat Lynch ('25), Sam Oakes ('27), Sophie Mackley ('27), Shyann Rulander ('27), and Dilani Frorup ('25). Kat and Dilani presented their posters in the INORG division and Sam, Sophie, and Shyann presented their poster in the CHED division.
In March 2025, several Allegheny Chemistry and Biochemistry majors attended the spring ACS National Meeting in San Diego to present their research.
2023-2024
The spring 2024 Chemii banquet had a great turnout and marked Tim's last semester as Department Chair. Pictured below is most of the research group from the spring (from left to right): Kat Lynch ('25), Shyann Rulander ('27), Jacob Zoll ('24), Sophie Mackley ('27) and Tim.
Jacob Zoll ('24): Jacob has been accepted to grad school at Indiana University.
update spring 2025: Jacob has joined the Goicoechea group and reports that he will be working on heteroatomic mutiple bonds between group 13/15 elements focusing on phosphagallenes. In his first semester of graduate school he loved TAing for intro chem, going to trivia night and supporting the IU football team. Jacob is looking forward to beginning research in the lab this upcoming semester.
The summer 2024 research group is pictured above (left to right): Sam Oakes ('27), Shyann Rulander ('27), Sophie Mackley ('27), Dilani Frorup (25), and Tim.
2022-2023
Spring 2023 Chemii banquet photo. Pictured below from left to right: Tim, Ryan Mantione ('23), Jacob Zoll ('24), Lacey Martin ('23), and Mac Polny ('23).
Ryan Mantione ('23): Will be attending Georgetown University for graduate school
Lacey Martin ('23): Has a job lined up in industry as a Chemist at Product Evaluation Systems.
Mac Polny ('23): Is still figuring out what he'd like to do after graduation.
With lots of graduating seniors, Tim took on two new research students for the summer of 2023. Pictured below are Kat Lynch ('25) and Dilani Frorup ('25). Jacob Zoll spent the summer doing an internship at Oak Ridge National Lab in the Nanomaterials Chemistry Group working with Shannon Mahurin.
2021-2022
The missed summer research opportunity in 2020 resulted in a huge contingent of students on campus in the Chemistry Department for the summer of 2021 and we were able to take most of them to the Spring 2022 ACS National Conference in San Diego. A group photo from the trip is pictured below.
At the conference, Sam ('22) and Ryan ('23) presented a poster on their FLP project while David ('22) presented his work on the synthesis of new hydrogenase mimics.
The research group was large for the spring 2022 semester. In addition to David Ahlers ('22), Sam Rundquist ('22), and Ryan Mantione ('23) (front row left), we also had Jenna Halenda ('23), Andrew Briercheck ('23), and Bill Nese ('23) (back row) join the group to get more experience doing synthetic inorganic chemistry.
Sam and David graduated in May 2022 (pictured below at the Chemii end of year banquet, just a little before graduation day).
Sam Rundquist ('22): Sam has a job lined up working at Materion.
update spring 2023: After a year in industry, Sam is looking at applying to grad school for the fall 2023 admissions cycle.
update spring 2024: After an extensive grad school search Sam is going to the University of Oregon.
David Ahlers ('22): David has landed a job at American Colors in Sandusky, OH.
update spring 2024: David is still with American Colors but has moved to their branch in Nashville, TN and says that the nice weather allows for a more year-round opportunity to continue playing Ultimate Frisbee.
2020-2021
We were back on campus for the start of the fall 2020 semester and after much deliberation, we were able to run a somewhat normal summer research program on campus. Pictured below (left to right): Sam Rundquist '22, Ryan Mantione '23, Tim, and David Ahlers '22
2019-2020
Covid-19 resulted in Allegheny College going remote in March. Unfortunately, that meant no end of the year celebrations for senior project students Anh Ta ('20) and Diana Pendleton ('20). However, Diana was able to return for an in-person graduation ceremony in 2021 (photo below)
Anh Ta '20 (comp student 2019-2020): After graduating from Allegheny, Anh became an analyst for Citi doing portfolio evaluation for alternative energy investments.
Diana Pendleton '20 (comp student 2019-2020): After finishing up at Allegheny, Diana went on to Veterinary School at the University of Minnesota.
update spring 2022: Diana is doing summer research at the University of Minnesota college of veterinary medicine. Her project focuses on a spinal disease in dogs called Intervertebral Disc Disease (IVDD) that happens spontaneously and can cause paralysis and even death if not addressed in a timely manner. She's looking to use MRI to generate early detection for weak disc in dogs that have the potential to herniate due to IVDD.
update fall 2024: Diana has finished vet school and is now a Small Animal Rotating Intern at the U Penn School of Veterinary Medicine
2018-2019
April 2019 research group photo: Left to right Tommy Mihalopolous ('19) Anh Ta ('20), Tim,
Matt Hutchinson ('19), Dana O'Connor ('19), and Cole Tower ('19).
April 2019 Chemii banquet senior comp: Left to right, Tommy Mihalopolous ('19), Tim,
Dana O'Connor ('19) and Cole Tower ('19).
Tommy Mihalopolous '19 (comp student 2018-2019)
update spring 2019: Tommy will be attending the University of Oregon next year for graduate school
Dana O'Connor '19 (comp student 2018-2019)
update spring 2019: Dana will be attending graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University
update fall 2019: Dana has joined the Marom group at CMU and reports that all her frustrations will now be virtual rather than synthetic.
update fall 2023: Dana finished her PhD at CMU in Materials Science and Engineering. She is now a Machine Learning Research Scientist at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
update summer 2025: Dana moved from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and is now an AI scientist at Lila Sciences (a startup) in Cambridge, MA
Cole Tower '19 (comp student 2018-2019)
update spring 2019: Cole will be attending graduate school at Purdue University
update fall 2019: Cole has joined the Munsone group at Purdue.
update fall 2024: Cole finished his PhD at Purdue in Industrial and Physical Pharmacy and is now a Senior Scientist at AbbVie
April 2019: Ali Metzger ('19) presents her summer research at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Orlando with Cole Tower ('19) and Dana O'Connor ('19) as co-authors.
2017-2018
April 2018: Group photo in front of the NMR (with new upgrades!). Left to right: Ben Bloom ('18), Tommy Mihalopoulos ('19), Tim, David Stekla ('18), and Altan Frantz ('18).
Ben Bloom '18 (comp student, 2017-2018)
update fall 2019: Ben has moved to San Fransisco and has a new job doing analytical chemistry on a medicinal chemistry research team at Ideaya.
update spring 2018: Ben has a job lined up at American Colors in Sandusky, OH.
Altan Frantz '18 (comp student, 2017-2018)
update spring 2018: Altan will be attending LECOM next year for medical school.
David Stekla '18 (comp student, 2017-2018)
update spring 2018: David has a job lined up with FBC Chemical in Buffalo, NY, after he graduates in May. He plans to continue on with graduate school to earn his M.B.A.
Ryan Tipker '18 (independent research, fall 2017)
update summer 2018: Ryan is doing a summer rotation in David Glueck's group.
update spring 2018: Ryan will be attending graduate school at Dartmouth College following graduation.
Tommy Mihalopoulos '19 (independent research, spring 2018)
update spring 2018: Tommy will spend summer 2018 at Oak Ridge National Lab working with Dr. Craig Bridges.
2016-2017
April 2017: Chemii banquet photo with Nathanael. Tyler, I think you have the group photo, send it to me when you can!
Nathanael Downes '17 (comp student, 2016-2017)
Update 7-2018: Nathanael has joined Stephan Maldonado's group at the University of Michigan.
Update 8-2017: Nathanael is in graduate school at the University of Michigan and is doing his summer rotation in Nicolai Lehnert's group
Zach Kaufman '17 (comp student, 2016-2017)
Update 5-2018: Zach has been working at PPG for the past year.
Tyler Puorro '17 (comp student, 2016-2017)
Update 8-2017: Tyler is in graduate school at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY
Update spring 2018: Tyler has joined Theodore Dibble's research group.
Jacob Shick '17 (comp student, 2016-2017)
Update 8-2017: Jacob has a job in industry at American Colors in Sandusky, OH.
2015-2016
May 2016: Group photo on study day. Front row (left to right): Ji-Hee Hong ('16), Winly Mai ('18), Sukesha Ray ('16), Hannah Fischer ('18). Back row (left to right): Alexander Porter ('16), Dr. Chapp, Zach Kaufman ('17), Altan Frantz ('18), Nathanael Downes ('17).
Chemii Banquet April 2016: Congratulations to graduating seniors Sukesha Ray ('16), Ji-Hee Hong ('16) and Alexander Porter ('16)!
March 2016: Nathanael presents his poster at the spring ACS meeting in San Diego
2014-2015
Dylan Boucher '15 (independent research spring 2014, comp student 2014-2015). After graduation Dylan will be attending graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin.
Update 12-2015: Dylan has joined Mike Rose's research group.
Update fall 2019: Dylan has a couple new publications. One in ACS Applied Energy Materials that you can read about here, and another one in Inorganic Chemistry that you can read about here.
Nathanael Downes '17 (independent research, spring 2015, Lord Fellow, summer research 2015, comp student 2016-2017).
Ji-Hee Hong '16 (summer research 2014, Dean's Fund, independent research spring 2015, comp student 2015-2016). Ji-Hee will be an intern at Alpha Aromatics for the summer of 2015 doing fragrance chemistry.
Update 8-2017: Ji-Hee worked as a lab technician in Peter Wipf's group at the University of Pittsburgh before landing a job back at Alpha Aromatics in Feb. 2017.
Justin Jurczyk '17 (Lord Fellow, summer research 2014). Justin is working with Professor Michael Krische during the summer of 2015 at the University of Texas at Austin through funding available from the Jean Dreyfus Boissevain Lectureship Award that the Allegheny Chemistry Department received last year.
Update 8-2017: Justin is now in graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley.
Alexander Porter '16 (summer research 2014, Lord Fellow, independent research fall 2014, comp student 2015-2016). Alexander is doing summer research at the Ames National Laboratory in Iowa through the SULI (Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship) funded by the US Department of Energy.
Update 8-2017: Alexander is doing well in medical school at LECOM and reports that his expertise in NMR spectroscopy is valuable for understanding MRI and CT images.
Update December 2018: Alexander is doing a rotation at Meadville Medical Center
Sukesha Ray '16 (independent research fall 2014, spring 2015, comp student 2015-2016)
October 2014 (left to right): Justin, Ji-Hee, and Alexander present their posters at CERM in Pittsburgh.
Summer 2014 (left to right): Tim, Ji-Hee, Justin, Alexander
2013-2014
Dan Adams '14 (summer research 2013, Dean's Fund, and 2013-2014 comp student).
Update, spring 2015: Dan will be attending graduate school for chemistry at the University of Maryland College Park.
Update 12-2015: Dan has joined Andrei Vedernikov's group at the University of Maryland.
Update 8-2017: Dan presented at the ACS National Meeting in Washington D.C. titled: Aerobic catalytic oxidative functionalization of methane by Pt(II)/Cu(II) bimetallic system in trifluoroacetic acid solutions
Update fall 2019: Dan has a paper out in the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. Read all about it here.
Ji-Hee Hong '16 (summer research 2013, Dean's Fund)
Matt Riek '14 (summer research, Lord Fellow, and 2013-2014 comp student).
Update, spring 2015: Matt will be attending graduate school for chemistry at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
Update, spring 2016: Matt has joined Matt Cain's group at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Rachel Rihaly '14 (2013-2014 comp student) Rachel has a position as a Laboratory Assessor at AASHTO Materials Reference Laboratory (AMRL)
Update, spring 2016: Rachel has been accepted to Cornell University's Masters of Engineering program for fall 2016.
Update, spring 2018: Rachel has completed her Master's of Engineering Degree as of December 2017 and has a new position in South Carolina.
Update, summer 2025: Rachel moved back to PA in 2022 and recently accepted a fully remote position as a Loss Prevention Engineer with Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited.
Summer 2013 (left to right): Matt and Dan at the end-of-summer
Allegheny poster session
Summer 2013: Ji-Hee at the end-of-summer Allegheny poster session
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