Author: Wade Downey

Congratulations to Jack Goodin ’18, who will use a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Uruguay next year! Congratulations to Xuechun Alethea Lin ’18, who will be attending a graduate program in Financial Math at the University of Chicago next year!

We are pleased to announce that Organic Synthesis, Inc. will fund Dani Sklar’s research this summer in the Downey Lab.  Dani is studying “Rapid Construction of Furans from 3-Silylated Propargyl Carboxylates.”  All hail Dani.

Through the hard work of several Downey group members, we’ve just had some new chemistry published in Tetrahedron Letters, available at this link: TMS Acetonitrile and Acetals Congratulations to the authors, including Alice Lee ’16, Jack Goodin ’18, Courtney Botelho

Our very own Carly Mueller ’14, DPT, gets a big high five for completing her doctoral program in Physical Therapy.  Combined with the fact that Carly came to see me on Friday, she is currently my favorite student ever.  If

Congratulations to Chris Poff ’17, who will be entering the chemistry Ph.D. program at Emory! Congratulations to Anna Takashima ’17, who will be attending chemistry graduate school at KU Leuven in Belgium!

Thanks to the hard work of so many students in the Downey group, Wade was promoted to full professor in February 2017.  A big thanks to all of you who generated the research results that pushed him over the top!  He

Congratulations to Carolyn Dombrowski ’14, who will be attending a master’s program at Drexel! Congratulations to Ken MacCormac ’16, who will be attending dental school at UConn next year!

Congratulations to Ana Neferu ’13, who was just accepted into a Ph.D. program at St. Andrew’s in Scotland!

Congratulations are in order! Lots of news from the last twelve months: Congratulations to Dr. Miles Johnson ’09 who (gulp) was just hired as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Richmond! Congratulations to Adam Barnett ’15 who will