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May 5, 2013 Undergraduate student Ms. Lucia Li will join our research group in the fall semester of 2013. Lucia is a student in the Chemical Engineering Department of Michigan Tech. April 23, 2013 Undergraduate student Mr. Matt Strong will participate in our NSF-supported non-chromatographic peptide purification project in the summer of 2013. Matt is a student from Finlandia University. He is supported by funding from NSF. April 22, 2013 Undergraduate Ms. Chinyelu Umeokolo will participate in our projects in the nucleic acid chemistry area in the summer of 2013. Chinyelu is from Wayne County Community College. She is supported by MiCUP (Michigan College and University Partnership) program. The MiCUP program is a collaborative effort between three Michigan community colleges (Delta College, Grand Rapids Community College, and Wayne County Community College District) and Michigan Tech. Its goal includes encouraging students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. April 18, 2013 Graduate student Mr. Suntara Fueangfung is named the Chemistry Department 2012-2013 Outstanding Lower Division Chemistry Teaching Assistant. April 18, 2013 Undergraduate student Mr. Nathanael Green is awarded the Chemistry Department Outstanding Senior Award and named the Chemistry Department 2012-2013 Departmental Scholar. April 18, 2013 Undergraduate student Mr. Christopher Thomas is awarded the Chemistry Department 2012-2013 Outstanding Senior Research Award and the Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry. March 22, 2013 Group alumnus Dr. Muralidhara Thimmaiah (PhD 2008) will assume a Senior Lecturer position in Washington University in September 2013. March 18, 2013 Undergraduate student Mr. Christopher Thomas is expected to graduate from Michigan Tech in May, 2013. He will attend the graduate school of University of Wisconsin-Madison in Fall, 2010 to pursue a PhD in its pharmaceutical science program. March 1, 2013 Undergraduate student Mr. Nathanael Green is awarded the Michigan Space Grant Consortium Undergraduate Research Fellowship. July 23, 2012 Dr. Bin Cao joined our research group as a postdoctoral researcher from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. April 23, 2012 Graduate student Ms. Xi (Sissi) Lin is awarded the 2012 Ray E. and Eleanor K. Cross Endowed Graduate Fellowship and the 2012 Chemistry Department Lower Division Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. April 23, 2012 Undergraduate student Mr. Nathanael Green is awarded the 2012 David J. and Valeria L. Pruett Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. April 23, 2012 Undergraduate student Ms. Kaitlin Codere-Lanouette will participate in our NSF-supported non-chromatographic peptide purification project in the coming summer. Kaitlin is a student from Finlandia University. She is supported by funding from NSF. April 19, 2012 Graduate student Mr. Durga Pokharel successfully defended his Original Research Proposal. He has also finished the Cumulative Exams in this semester. As a result, he will enter the research-only mode in the coming summer. April 3, 2012 Undergraduate students Mr. Nathanael Green and Mr. Christopher Thomas joined our research group. They will start their research in the summer and fall semesters of 2012, respectively. February 12, 2012 Group alumnus Dr. Xiang Zhang (PhD 2011) assumed a postdoctoral researcher position in School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis. February 5, 2012 Graduate student Ms. Xi (Sissi) Lin is awarded the first place prize in Michigan Tech Graduate Research Colloquium Poster & Presentation Competition for her poster “Pt (II)-Catalyzed Isomerization of Oxo-Alkynes”. The poster is authored by graduate students Xi Lin and Zezhou Wang, and associate professors Rudy L. Luck and Shiyue Fang; and is presented on February 2, 2012. February 5, 2012 Graduate student Mr. Suntara (Boat) Fueangfung presented his poster entitled “Purification of Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotides via Catching by Polymerization” at Michigan Tech Graduate Research Colloquium Poster & Presentation Competition on February 2, 2012. The authors of the poster are Suntara Fueangfung and Shiyue Fang. February 5, 2012 Dr. Mingcui Zhang joined our research group as a postdoctoral researcher from Anhui Normal University, China. January 8, 2012 Graduate student Mr. Ashok Khanal joined our research group from Nepal. November 24, 2011 Our Chemical Communications (2011, 47, 1345-1347) and Organic Letters (2010, 12, 3720-3723) papers on synthetic DNA purification are included in www.labome.org. Click the following link http://www.labome.org//expert/usa/michigan/fang/shiyue-fang-1638645.html April 28, 2011 Undergraduate student Mr. Matthew Schultz joined our research group. Matt is supported by the 2011 David J. and Valeria L. Pruett Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. April 25, 2011 Undergraduate student Mr. John Hausman joined our research group. April 23, 2011 Undergraduate student Mr. Travis Olds was selected as the Chemistry Department Scholar. April 5, 2011 Graduate student Mr. Xiang Zhang successfully defended his PhD dissertation. March 22, 2011 Undergraduate student Ms. Brigitte Koerner is admitted to the graduate program of School of Pharmacy in Concordia University in Mequon, WI. October 12, 2010 Undergraduate student Ms. Kyrie Pappas published a paper with graduate student Mr. Xiang Zhang, and Associate Professor Shiyue Fang in Letters in Organic Chemistry. The title is “Selective Acylation of Polyamines with Acid Anhydrides and Acid Chlorides in Water”. July 28, 2010 Our paper published in Organic Letters and entitled Scalable Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotide Purification with Use of a Catching by Polymerization, Washing and Releasing Approach (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ol101316g) is covered in Michigan Tech News http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2010/july/story29758.html; American Chemical Society, Chemical and Engineering News http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/88/i31/8831news4.html (printed version, August 2, 2010 issue); Faculty of 1000 Biology http://f1000biology.com/article/id/4324976#cite; National Science Foundation, Science360 News Services: http://news.science360.gov/archives/20100726; and Omicron Technology Limited—PhysOrg: http://www.physorg.com/news199086389.html. July 22, 2010 Graduate student Xiang Zhang is awarded a finishing fellowship by the Biotechnology Research Center of Michigan Tech to support his research in the Fall semester of 2010. May 1, 2010 Undergraduate student Mr. Travis Olds joined our research group. April 19, 2010 Undergraduate student Ms. Kyrie Pappas won the first place award in the 9th annual MTU Undergraduate Research Expo, which took place on April 15, 2010. Graduate student Mr. Xiang Zhang was a co-author of the poster. He was responsible for teaching Kyrie lab skills for her project. April 1, 2010 Undergraduate student Ms. Kyrie Pappas is expected to graduate from Michigan Tech in May, 2010. She will attend the graduate school of Columbia University in Fall, 2010 to pursue a PhD. January 10, 2010 Graduate student Mr. Durga Pokharel joined our research group from Nepal. August 24, 2009 Undergraduate students Kyrie Pappas and Wei Tang published a paper with graduate student Xiang Zhang and assistant professor Shiyue Fang in Tetrahedron Letters, 2009, 50, 5741-5743. The title is “phenyl esters, preferred reagents for mono-acylation of polyamines in the presence of water”. May 5, 2009 Undergraduate student Mr. Brock Jackman joined our research group. May 1, 2009 Undergraduate student Ms. Brigitte Koerner joined our research group. April 8, 2009 Undergraduate student Ms. Kyrie Pappas is awarded the 2009 Michigan Tech Undergraduate Research Fellowship for her proposal "Selective Acylation of Polyamines at Ambient Temperature". December 26, 2008 Undergraduate student Mr. Garrett Gibbons co-authored a paper with graduate students Mr. Zezhou Wang and Ms. Xi Lin, and professors Rudy Luck and Shiyue Fang. It is entitled “Synthesis of Cyclic Allyl Vinyl Ethers Using Pt(II)-Catalyzed Isomerization of Oxo-Alkynes” and is accepted for publication in Tetrahedron. Garrett was supported by 2006 and 2007 Michigan Tech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships. November 1, 2008 Graduate student Mr. Suntara Fueangfung joined our research group. August 26, 2008 Undergraduate student Ms. Kyrie Pappas joined our research group. August 5, 2008 Undergraduate student Ms. Wei Tang’s paper “Mono-acylation of symmetric diamines in the presence of water” with Dr. Shiyue Fang is accepted for publication in Tetrahedron Letters. Wei’s work was partially supported by 2007 Michigan Tech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MTU SURF). April 6, 2008 Undergraduate student Ms. Wei Tang is expected to graduate from Michigan Tech in May, 2008. She will attend the graduate school of Northwestern University in Fall, 2008 to pursue a PhD. April 6, 2008 Undergraduate student Mr. Garrett Gibbons is expected to graduate from Michigan Tech in May, 2008. He will attend the graduate school of University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in Fall, 2008 to pursue a PhD. March 5, 2008 Graduate student Mr. Muralidhara Thimmaiah successfully defended his PhD dissertation and started to work as a postdoctoral research associate at Oregon State University on March 1, 2008. February 25, 2008 Dr. Wenpeng Mai joined our research group as a postdoctoral researcher. Dr. Mai received his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. January 14, 2008 Undergraduate student Mr. Tyler Soenen joined our research group. Tyler is a student in the Chemical Engineering Department of Michigan Tech. October 18, 2007 Graduate student Ms. Xi Lin joined our research group. Xi was admitted to our graduate program in Fall 2007. She obtained her BS from Southwest University in P. R. China. October 18, 2007 Graduate student Mr. Muralidhara Thimmaiah is awarded the Fall 2007 Finishing Fellowship by the graduate school of Michigan Tech. We congratulate Murali for the achievement and thank the graduate school and its sponsors for the generous award. October 7, 2007 Undergraduate student Ms. Melanija Obsenica joined our research group. May 05, 2007 PhD candidate Muralidhara Thimmaiah won the 2007 Michigan Tech Chemistry Department Outstanding Graduate Student Award. April 10, 2007 Garrett Gibbons and Wei Tang won the 2007 Michigan Tech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MTU SURF) to support their research on “Soft Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Reactions” and “Mono-acylation of Symmetric Diamines”, respectively.
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