Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University

 

Iowa State University

The Jenks Group at Iowa State University


The Group (Fall 2005)!

(L to R) Abdellatif Ibdah (PhD 2005), Mrinmoy Nag (PhD 2005), David Dixson, Erin Rockafellow, Melanie Heying, Vasumathi Desikan, Stacey Stoffregen, William, Tim Hathway, Ryan McCulla (PhD 2005)

 

Erin
Vasu
Tim
 

Melanie

Stacey
 

 

The group in 1996

The group in 2002

Group in 2005

 

Alumni:

  • Mrimoy Nag (Ph.D. 1995) took a postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis.
  • Abdellatif Ibdah (Ph.D. 1995) took a postdoc at Ohio State
  • Ryan McCulla (Ph.D. 1995) took a Postdoc at Ohio State.
  • Paul Charlesworth took a tenure track position at Michigan Technical University. He has an outstanding web page on teaching, research, and other interests.  He is now Associate Professor.
  • Dan Gregory took a tenure track position at St. Cloud State in Minnesota starting Fall 1999 and is now Associate Professor.
  • Yushen Guo got his Ph.D. in 1997 and now works at Merial, a pharmaceutical Company
  • Troy Tetzlaff took a job at Procter and Gamble and has since moved to Pfizer.
  • Tim Wiegand, who worked with us as a post-baccalaureate "special student," is at medical school, also at the U of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Jerry Cubbage took a job as a computational medicinal chemist at Pharmacia, now at Pfizer.
  • Woojae Lee has taken an industrial photochemistry job back in Korea.
  • Brian Vos is synthesizing explosives at a defense laboratory.
  • Chaly Oh took a postdoc at the Center for Photochemical Sciences, and has since moved back to a Korean technology company.
  • Mrinmoy Nag took a postdoc with
  • Ryan McCulla took a postdoc with Matt Platz at Ohio State.

Troy Tetzlaff, 1998
Dan Gregory, 1998
Woojae Lee, 2000

Jerry Cubbage, 2001

Brian Vos, 2002

Yun Bao, 2002

Chaly Oh, 2004 Mrinmoy Nag, 2005
Ryan McCulla, 2005
Abdellatif Ibdah, 2005 Xiaojing Li, post doc 2002  

Undergrads, etc.

We typically have 2-3 undergrads at a time in the lab. Many of our undergrads have gone on to graduate school, but others have just taken the research experience. Undergraduates typically have their own research project.  We are part of an NSF funded REU project through 2007.

 

 


William S. Jenks
wsjenks@iastate.edu, 515/294-4711
3760 Gilman Hall, Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011-3111