Good luck to Gabrielle Warren as she defends her thesis for her PhD in Chemistry!
Friday, October 6, 2023
1PM in 220 Deschutes and via Zoom
Gabrielle’s thesis title is “Enhancing the Antiaromaticity of s-Indacenes through Heterocycle Fusion”
Category: Dissertation Defense
Dissertation Defense – Mellie Lemon, June 1st
Good luck to Mellie Lemon as they defend their thesis for their PhD in Chemistry!
Thursday, June 1, 2023
2PM in 150 Columbia and via Zoom
Mellie’s thesis title is “Investigation of Ternary Layered Thin Film Materials”
Dissertation Defense – Grace Lindquist, May 19th
Good luck to Grace Lindquist as she defends her thesis for her PhD in Chemistry!
Friday, May 19, 2023
1PM in Allen 221 and via Zoom
Her thesis title is: : Advancing Anion-Exchange-Membrane Water Electrolyzer Devices: Catalyst Layer Interactions, Degradation Pathways, and Operational Development
Up next: Grace has accepted a Senior Electrochemical Engineer position at Hgen.
Dissertation Defense – Checkers Marshall
Good luck to Checkers Marshall as they defend their thesis for their PhD in Chemistry on Thursday, December 1st!
Their thesis title is: Nanoparticles of Metal-Organic Frameworks: A General Synthetic Method and Size-Dependent Properties
Up next: Checkers will be joining Svante in Vancouver, BC, as a Materials Synthesis R&D chemist.
Dissertation Defense – Dylan Heussman, November 15th
Good luck to Dylan Heussman as he defends his thesis for his PhD in Chemistry!
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
1PM in 220 Deschutes and via ZOOM
The title of his thesis is: Local Structure and Conformational Disorder at ds-ss DNA Junctions
Up next: Dylan has accepted a position at ThermoFisher Scientific.
Dissertation Defense – Grace Waddell, November 2nd
Good luck to Grace Waddell as she defends her thesis for her PhD in Chemistry!
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
2:00p.m. in 220 Deschutes Hall and via ZOOM
The title of her thesis is “Defining the Molecular Mechanisms that Regulate SHIP1 Activity and Membrane Localization in Immune Cells”
Dissertation Defense – Orion Banks, September 20th
Good luck to Orion Banks as he defends his thesis for his PhD in Chemistry!
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
10:00 AM Pacific Time via ZOOM
The title of his thesis is “DETECTING AND MODIFYING CHROMATIN ORGANIZATION IN THE BUDDING YEAST GENOME WITH SYNTHETIC PROTEINS”
Dissertation Defense – Thomas Bailey, August 26th
Good luck to Thomas Bailey as he defends his thesis for his PhD in Chemistry!
Friday, August 26, 2022
11:00 AM in 140 Allen Hall and via ZOOM
The title of his thesis is “Tup1 is Required for Transcriptional Repression Necessary for quiescence in S. cerevisiae“
Dissertation Defense – Aaron Miller, August 26th
Good luck to Aaron Miller as he defends for his PhD in Chemistry!
Friday, August 26, 2022
11:30 a.m. in 110 Willamette and via ZOOM
The title of his thesis is “Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures”
Up next: Aaron will be moving to the Portland area to begin working as a Quality & Reliability Engineer at Intel.
Dissertation Defense – Hannah Bates, August 17th
Good luck to Hannah Bates as she defends her thesis for her PhD in Chemistry!
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
3:00p.m. in 220 Deschutes Hall and via ZOOM
The title of her thesis is “Anion Sensing in Polar Media with Fluorescent Small Molecule Receptors via Halogen Bonding”
After graduation, Hannah will be moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to pursue job opportunities while her fiancé resumes his PhD studies at Tufts University.