Bachelor of Science in Chemistry | Aug 2019 – May 2023
GPA : 3.575
Activities : Research Assistant, College of Engineering and Technology Solvers, Mentor Collective, Religious Studies Student Organization, Medical Shadowing
Honors/Awards : Honors College Award, Wentz Research Scholar, Out of State Achievement, FourJays Dean’s Scholar, Delta Dental of Oklahoma Award
Professional Experience
Professional | AC Jones High School
Administrative Assistant | Jan 2024 - April 2024
Manage a substitute base of fifty employees at the high school, coordinating teacher absence with needed coverage with over one-hundred absences per week. Managing absences and record keeping of leave time.
Daily document and notify parties of suspensions, detentions, alternative school relocation, and disciplinary action taken on an administrative level.
Coordinate over one-hundred school lunches and alternative lunches as well as the notification of each individual student assigned an alternative lunch.
Research Experience
Research | Weaver Lab
Research Assistant | Dec 2020 - May 2023
Perform Novel Synthesis of Quaternary Carbon Centers via Photo-catalysis utilizing newly developed photo-reactors.
Generate Tertiary Alcohols via Grignard and organolithium reactions on various ketones. Developing Retro-synthetic routes to supply feed stock for photocatalytic reactions. Characterize generated compounds from
those photocatalytic reactions through qualitative and quantitative means.
Maintain, Utilize, and Trouble shoot: Vacuum Lines and pumps, FTIR Spectrometer, Rotovaps, Photoreactors, Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy machine, Flash Chromatography Systems, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer, Analytical Balance Scale, and Glove Box Operations.
Presentations
Presentations | Poster
Wentz: Formation of Quaternary Carbon Centers Via Photocatalysis | May 2022
Generation of carbon-carbon bonds via nucleophilic addition to yield unsymmetric diaryl quaternary centers. OSU Research Symposium: Capturing of Strain Energy in trans-cyclohexene | May 2022
Capturing of strain energy via photoexcitation and bond rotation with intersystem crossing. Generation of strain energy capture is estimated to be ~52 kcal/mol
Core Software Skills
Microsoft Office Suite: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Onedrive, Sharepoint
Chemical Software: Chemdraw, MestreNova, Topspin, Chimera, Gromacs, Gaussian09, Avogadro, WebMO