Congratulations to Randy Hamchand who defended his MS Thesis with an entirely new topic for our group: The extraction of naturally occurring porphyrins/oligopyrroles in eggshells and the quills of hedgehogs. Randy will be joining the Yale graduate program in chemistry!

Congratulations to Meenakshi Sharma and Ruoshi Li who successfully defended their dissertations! Dr. Li tackled the modification of octaethylporphyrin, while Dr. Sharma studied a number of oxygen-based pyrrole-modified porphyrins!