Congratulations, Molly!

Today, Molly successfully defended her undergraduate thesis: Investigating Microplastic Content in the Susquehanna River. She will now receive a Research Distinction Certificate along with her BS degree in chemistry. Great job, Molly!

CHEM 423W NMR Facility Tour

On April 1st, 2024, Dr. Sykes’ CHEM 423W class was given the opportunity to take an in-depth tour of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility in the Chemistry Building. The tour was led by Dr. Tapas Mal, the director of the facility. Dr. Mal showed the...

Chem 423W Lab Work

Three of our lab members are enrolled in Dr. Sykes’ upper-level capstone chemistry course, CHEM 423W (Chemical Spectroscopy). In the most recent lab, the students build a mini-spectrophotometer from scratch. They were provided with circuit elements and...

Congratulations to Jake!

Jacob Erhbaker received his BSc in Chemistry this past December and is now serving as the lab manager/super TA for the analytical chemistry instructional program.

2023 Research Activity

Our group submitted five papers in 2023: two were published, two accepted, and one is in review.