Professor of Chemistry
Kate Plass is a Professor of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College. Kate leads a team of undergraduate student scientists to explore the synthesis of multicomponent nanoheterostructures through post-synthetic transformation and the way this alters the optical properties of materials. She received a B.S. in Chemistry with Honors from Wayne State University doing research under the direction of Robert Levis and a Ph.D. in materials chemistry from the University of Michigan under the direction of Adam Matzger. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow under the direction of Nathan Lewis at the California Institute of Technology. In 2008, she joined the faculty in the Chemistry Department at Franklin & Marshall College and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2014 and full professor in 2020. She is currently Department Chair. She has received several grants and awards including a NSF CAREER award, the Dreyfus Start-up Award, the Cottrell College Science Award, the ACS Rising Star Award, the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and several NSF RUI awards.
Michael Boleychuk
Allison Herr
Matt DaPrato
Nikhita Kuntipuram
Jordyn Collie
Umut Sonmezyurt
Alaina Koniki
Fengqian Rea Jiao
Melissa Zhou
Jessica Tran
Yvette Wang
Zoey Zhao
Josh Schwalbe
Michael Boleychuk
Jordyn Collie
Emily Sandoval-Arteaga
Noah Ehrenberg
Kathleen Nguyen
Quentin Boussard
Alaina Konicki
Megna Topiwala
Ella Paul
Nikhita Kuntipuram
Ben Macy
Michael Boleychuk
Kathleen Nguyen
Ben Macy
Jordyn Collie
Quentin Boussard
Ella Paul
Matt DaPrato
Michael Boleychuk
Kathleen Nguyen
Ben Macy
Matt DaPrato
Jackson Freymeyer
Umut Sonmezyurt
Ella Paul
Angie Chilel-Ramierez
Allison Herr
Lily Clouser
Fengqian Rea Jiao
Ben Macy Doctoral Student in Chemistry at Penn State (LinkedIn)
Michael Boleychuk Doctoral Student in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Kathleen Tuong Nguyen Doctoral Student in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (LinkedIn)
Kiran Bedi Masters Student in Speech-Language Pathology at the Drexel University (LinkedIn)
Chi Mary Nguyen research assistant at Temple Medical School (LinkedIn)
Roothy Desir Master of Biomedical Sciences (MBS) program at Nova Southeastern University (LinkedIn)
Ben Schmidt Clinical Research Coordinator at Shriners Children's Hospital (LinkedIn)
Jiwoo Choi Master’s in Forensic Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (LinkedIn)
Christian Jesby Doctoral Student in Chemistry at Vanderbilt University (LinkedIn)
Alexis Cunningham Elementary School Teacher at Success Academy Charter Schools (LinkedIn)
Holden Brown Field Chemist at Arcwood Environmental (LinkedIn)
Taylor Staub Currently working at UPMC Washington while applying to medical school (LinkedIn)
Lauren Holladay Quality Control Chemist (LinkedIn)
Clarisse Doligon just started the Chemistry PhD program at Cornell University (LinkedIn)
Alba Espinosa MS at PCOM, now medical school at PCOM
Kezia Almonte just started a biomedical engineering program at Tufts University (LinkedIn)
Adem Imamovic University of Chicago Quantum Engineering PhD program (LinkedIn)
Valerie Wanrui Xie, Chemistry PhD Program University of Michigan (LinkedIn)
Marc Novak, Certified Endoscopy Technician at Northwell Health (LinkedIn)
Rebecca Qi Luo, Post-Baccalaureate Researcher in the Plass lab; University of Pittsburgh Chemistry PhD program (LinkedIn)
Bonnie Page, Sustainability Consultant at Anthesis Group, now Account Manager in Grid Tech @ Siemens Energy (LinkedIn)
Haley McAllister, Chemistry PhD program at Northwestern University (LinkedIn)
Connor Protter PhD from the University of Wisconsin, now Research Scientist at Ford Motor Company (LinkedIn)
Han Le PhD from the University of California-Berkeley, now Patent Agent at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP (LinkedIn)
Cameron Boxi Li PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, now Metrology Module Development Engineer at Intel (LinkedIn)
Dave Mix is a Resident Physician, Internal Medicine & Pediatrics at MetroHealth/Case Western Reserve University (LinkedIn)
Ryan Kozloski enrolled in medical school at Geisinger Commonwealth Medical College and is now an internist in Bethesda MD (LinkedIn)
Jack Kupsky is using his Economics double major as Senior Global Sourcing Manager at Clark Associates in Lancaster (LinkedIn)
Jenny Georgieva PhD in Chemistry from University of Pittsburgh, now Consultant @ ZS Philadelphia (LinkedIn)
Alex Kim Pennsylvania State University Medical School & US Army Medical Service Corps, now Army Neurologist at Womack Army Medical Center (LinkedIn)
Marshall Tomat has begun a new position as a Process Chemist at Eurofins after graduate work at North Carolina State University. (LinkedIn)
Jiaming Guo and Yufei Huang
Cole Wisdo was a Middle School Teacher at Brooke Charter School and is now Sr. Program Manager at Airborne ECS
Christian Kim MS University of California at Irvine, Christian is now Laboratory coordinator at St. Margaret's Episcopal School. (LinkedIn)
Nathaniel Freymeyer PhD in Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, now Project Manager, STEM Student Research at Vanderbilt University (LinkedIn)
Danielle Roth, Fulbright Scholar in Poland, now enrolled in the School of Medicine at Marshall University (LinkedIn)
Brandon Golden, Medical School at the University of Scranton and now Resident in Emergency Medicine at Wellspan Health. (LinkedIn)
Elisa Oehrlein Graduate Student in Pharmacy, University of Maryland, now Founder, Applied Patient Experience, LLC (LinkedIn)
Arnold Päcklar TASSEP student, returned to Austria (LinkedIn)
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Colorado State University
Mona (Lotfipour) Camacci Medical school, Drexel University, now Vitreoretinal Surgeon at Retina Consultants of South Carolina (LinkedIn)
Tony Machani Dental School, University of Pennsylvania, Owner of Amani Pediatric Dentistry (LinkedIn)
Evan Jones PhD in Chemistry, Harvard University and Law degree from Northeastern University School of Law, now Patent Lawer (LinkedIn)
Daniel Rossi PhD in Chemistry, Texas A&M University (LinkedIn)
Jolie Blake Ph.D in Chemistry, University of Delaware, now AI Developer | LLM, NLP & RAG Applications (LinkedIn)
Asher Slutsky
Aashi Dadhania
Noah Ehrenberg
Eli Rudman
Jiwoo Choi
Emily Sandoval-Arteaga
Michael Boleychuk
Kiran Bedi
Ben Schmidt
Kezia Almonte
Clarisse Doligon
Christian Jesby
Jiwoo Choi
Ben Schmidt
Holden Brown
Alexis Cunningham
Eli Rudman
Kathleen Nguyen
Sonali Purohit
Jordyn Collie
Christian Jesby
Jiwoo Choi
Ben Schmidt
Jordyn Collie
Alexis Cunningham
Eli Rudman
Michael Boleychuk
Kiran Bedi
Kathleen Nguyen
Zainab Akram
Quentin Boussard
Megna Topiwala
Annabelle Fulginiti
Emily Pollard