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 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, and the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
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
Ella Paul
Michael Boleychuk
Kathleen Nguyen
Ben Macy
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
Mary Nguyen
Roothy Desir
Ben Schmidt
Jiwoo Choi
Christian Jesby
Alexis Cunningham
Holden Brown
Taylor Staub just started a medical sciences masters degree at the University of West Virginia
Lauren Holladay
Clarisse Doligon just started the Chemistry PhD program at Cornell University
Alba Espinosa
Kezia Almonte just started a biomedical engineering program at Tufts University
Diya Dhakal, clinical research assistant at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Brandon Hole, Penn State University Medical School
Ronald Garcia, dental school
Emma Lenz-Mann, NIH post-baccalaureate position
Lara Srour, pharmacy school
Adem Imamovic is headed to University of Chicago Quantum Engineering program
Valerie Wanrui Xie, heading to University of Michigan, Department of Chemistry
Marc Novak, likely post-baccalaureate program
Rebecca Qi Luo, Post-Baccalaureate Researcher in the Plass lab; University of Pittsburgh Chemistry PhD program
Bonnie Page, Sustainability Consultant at Anthesis Group
Haley McAllister, heading to Northwestern University
Anna Xiong, graduate school in Germany
Luis Garcia-Herrera, Post-Baccalaureate Researcher in the Plass lab, now headed to the University of Michigan
Kaiyuan Karen Hao, now in the UMass Immunology & Pharmacology program.
Connor Protter has joined Bob Hamer's group at the University of Wisconsin
Han Le has joined Paul Alivisatos's group at the University of California-Berkeley
Cameron Boxi Li has joined Sean Robert's group at the at the University of Texas at Austin
Angus Unruh has joined Ayusman Sen's lab at Pennsylvania State University.
Zichen Zeng has joined Tom Mallouk's lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dave Mix is currently overseeing the F&M Writing Center
Ryan Kozloski is enrolled in medical school at Geisinger Commonwealth Medical College.
Jack Kupsky is using his Economics double major at Clarke Associates in Lancaster
Jenny Georgieva has begun graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh and is nearing graduation from the lab of Prof. Waldeck.
Alex Kim has begun medical school training at the Pennsylvania State University's Hershey School of Medicine.
Pennsylvania State University Medical School & US Army Medical Service Corps
Marshall Tomat has begun a new position as a Process Chemist at Eurofins after graduate work at North Carolina State University.
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 After graduate school at the University of California at Irvine, Christian is now Laboratory coordinator at St. Margaret's Episcopal School.
Nathaniel Freymeyer Graduate Student in Chemistry, Vanderbilt University in the Rosenthal lab. Congratulations on your defense, Dr. Freymeyer!
Danielle Roth, Fulbright Scholar in Poland, now enrolled in the School of Medicine at Marshall University
Brandon Golden, Medical School at the University of Scranton and now Resident in Emergency Medicine at Wellspan Health.
Patrick Cunningham Graduate Student in Chemistry, University of Chicago in the Talapin lab, now Chemicals Consultant at Accenture
Laura Heller Graduate Student in Chemistry, Georgetown University
Fellow, FDA & Regulatory Policy at Avalere Health
Elisa Oehrlein Graduate Student in Pharmacy, University of Maryland
Senior Director, Research and Programs at National Health Council
Arnold Päcklar TASSEP student, returned to Austria
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Colorado State University
Mona Lotfipour Medical school, Drexel University
Resident Physician at Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey PA
Tony Machani Dental School, University of Pennsylvania
Pediatric Dentist at Children's Dental Health
Evan Jones Graduate Student in Chemistry, Harvard University
Student at Northeastern University School of Law
Daniel Rossi Graduate Student in Chemistry, Texas A&M University
Postdoctoral Researcher at the South Korean Institute for Basic Science, Center for Nano-Bio Medicine
Felicia Lucci PhD in Chemistry, Tufts University
Now AAAS policy fellow
Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Alex Wiltrout
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University
Now lab manager at Fontbonne University
Jolie Blake Ph.D in Chemistry, University of Delaware
Postdoctoral Researcher at Chalmers University of Technology
Marilyn Weiss Chemistry Teacher at Park Tudor School
Chemistry Instructor at Boston Leadership Institute
Dennis Malmut EMT and Thomas Edison State College
Registered Nurse at Crozer-Keystone Health System