The 2026 Spring Research Group |
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Congrats to Gavin Anderon on being accepted into a Master’s Program at Illinois State University, and congrats
to Gavin Wenzel on being accepted into a Master’s Program at Loyola University.
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Congrats to Kyle Lyth on being selected as a Snyder Summer fellow at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
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Congrats to Kyle Lyth, Rem David, Nick Edelen, Habiba Hamitova, Magnum McManigal and Rylan Nelson on the acceptance of their manuscript in Green and Sustainable Chemistry.
Iron(II) Triflate Catalyzed Synthesis of 3,4- Dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones via the Biginelli Reaction. Green and Sustainable Chemistry (2026), 16, 60-67.
doi: 10.4236/gsc.2026.162004.
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Congrats to Rem David (2026) and Sophie Thorpe on the acceptance of their accounts in Arkivoc issue in honor of Green Chemistry
Pioneer, Dr. Raj Varma.
David, R. Q. V.; Thorp, S. C.; Mohan, R. S. Environmentally friendly organic synthesis using
bismuth(III) and iron(III) compounds as catalysts.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24820/ark.5550190.p012.292 Arkivoc 2025 (2) 202412292
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Congrats to Rem David (2026) and Sophie Thorpe on the acceptance of their Book Chapter in a series by Springer.
David, R. Q. V.; Thorp, S. C.; Mohan, R. S, Environmentally Friendly OrganicSynthesis
Using Bismuth(III) Compounds: A Mini Review (Invited) in a book titled “Advances in
Bismuth Chemistry (Springer). (2025)
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Congrats to Erick Lopez(2022), and Sophie Thorp (2023) on the acceptance of their review article on Applications of Bismuth Compounds in Organic Synthesis POLYHEDRON
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Congrats to Richie Guingrich (2021), Noah Haskin (2020), Allison Schrader (2022) and Matt Crosse (2022) on the acceptance of their manuscript in Green and Sustainable Chemistry.
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Dave Aggen (IWU 2005) University of Illinois College of Medicine in 2013 and then did his residency in Internal Medicine at Wayne State University. He is currently an Assistant Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. While at
IWU Dave was a passionate runner. He attended a national organic symposium with Dr.
Mohan at IU Bloomington and in spite of busy days full of seminars he got up at 5:00
AM to participate in a race. Dave published several papers including a report on use
of bismuth nitrate catalyzed synthesis of acylals in Tetrahedron which went on to become the top 50 most cited manuscripts in the journal (2004-2007).
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Jamie (Rogers) Ludwig (IWU 2008) University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX and work as a postdoctoral
fellow at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She is currently Assistant Professor II of Chemistry and Director of Project SEED at RIDER university
in NJ. |
Erin Anderson (IWU 2007) Loxo Oncology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly Inc. While at IWU Erin was awarded the annual Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Chemistry by Iota Sigma
Pi, the National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry, presented annually to only
one student in the nation. |
Laura Brown (IWU 2002) leads an active undergraduate research group and pursues her interests in organic
chemistry and the chemistry of natural products. While at IWU Laura was awarded the annual Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Chemistry by Iota Sigma
Pi, the National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry, presented annually to only
one student in the nation. |
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Steven Tymonko (IWU 2000) |
Michael Pulia (IWU 2001) Assistant Professor and Director of Emergency Medicine Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
at The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Michael
was always best friends with Eeyore the grey donkey. |
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Pash Devore (IWU 2009) an iOS app developer for the State Farm mobile app team. Pash lives with his wife
and daughter (Ada) in Bloomington. While in the group Pash developed some discovery-oriented
labs for organic chemistry. |
Rebecca Centko (IWU 2000) IWU Chemistry Alumni of The Year Award |
Kaushik Bhatia Retention Award for high performance during this past fiscal year. Congrats Kaushik! |
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John Laughlin (IWU 2014) moved on from chemistry to investment, and now works in an investment
firm in Chicago as a financial advisor. He still loves chemistry and added to his
library collection a book in which he co-authored a chapter.
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Congrats to Zhijia Geng (IWU 2020) on successful completion of her PhD from Duke University.
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Noah Haskin (IWU 2020) started his PhD at The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.
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