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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
Congrats!! 

Tyler Rauwolf  (Class of 2014) successfully defended his PhD thesis at Boston University. 

Congrats Tyler!! 

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 Class of 2005
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).  

jamie ludwig class of 2008
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 Class of 2007
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 class of 2002
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.
Steven Tymonko (IWU 2000) 
Mike Pulia Class of 2001
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.  
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 Class of 2000
Rebecca Centko (IWU 2000)  IWU Chemistry Alumni of The Year Award
Josh Yoo (Class of 2016)
Joshua Yoo (IWU 2016) 
Kaushik Bhatia  Retention Award for high performance during this past fiscal year. Congrats Kaushik! 

 

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. 

 

Zhijia Geng (IWU 2020) started her PhD in Organic Chemistry at Duke University.

 

Noah Haskin (IWU 2020) started his PhD at The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.