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Senior Thesis Students and Thesis Titles

Advised by Margret J. Geselbracht

Senior Thesis: "The effect of inorganic shell growth on exciton recombination rates in CdSe quantum dots"
Chemistry/Physics interdisciplinary thesis carried out in collaboration with Prof. Daniel Gamelin (University of Washington) and Prof. John Essick (Reed Physics Department)

Currently graduate student at Northwestern University

Senior Thesis: "The coordination of acetic acid to oxovanadium(V) triisopropoxide : a multinuclear NMR investigation"
Senior Thesis: "The SHArK project : a combinatorial search for a metal oxide semiconductor with which to split water and produce hydrogen using sunlight"
Senior Thesis: "Probing the role of deliberate imperfection in the lithium ion insertion behavior of V2O5 ambigel films"
Senior Thesis: "Lattice Defects as Lithium Intercalation Sites in V2O5 Ambigels"
Currently graduate student at the University of British Columbia
Senior Thesis: "Octahedral Tilting in Layered Perovskties: Using Neutron Diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy to Probe Distortions in the Anionic Framework"
Currently graduate student at UC Santa Barbara (Research Group: Ram Seshadri)
Senior Thesis: "Synthesis of New Ternary Niobates in Molten Salt Fluxes"
Currently graduate student at University of Florida (Research Group: George Christou)
Senior Thesis: "Aerogels, Ambigels, and Xerogels of Vanadium Pentoxide"
Currently employed at Saint-Gobain High Performance Materials, Northboro, MA
Senior Thesis: "Pick A-site:  Synthesis and Structural Characterization of the RbCa2-xSrxNb3O10  Solid Solutions Made By Solid State and Molten Salt Methods "
Senior Thesis: "A Bronze of a Different Colour: Synthesis of Reduced Strontium Niobates in Molten Chloride Fluxes"
Currently graduate student at Northwestern University (Research Group: Ken Poeppelmeier)
Senior Thesis: "Synthesis of Rubidium Strontium Niobium Layered Perovskites and Clusters by Molten Salt Flux Reactions"
Currently a nurse at OHSU

Senior Thesis: "Electronic Properties of Ternary Titanates"
Ph.D. 2009 Stanford (Applied Physics)
Currently intern at Solexant in San Jose, CA

Senior Thesis: "Electrochemistry of Early Transition Metals in Non-Chloroaluminate Room Temperature Ionic Liquids"
Currently graduate student at UC Berkeley (Research Group: John Arnold)
Senior Thesis: "Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places:  Attempted Isolation of an Intermediate Sodium Titanate"
Ph.D. 2009 University of Pennsylvania (Materials Science)
Currently postdoctoral researcher at University of Pennsylvania/NIST
Senior Thesis: "Hunting the Wily Reduced Layered Perovskite:  A Hunter’s Memoir"
High school science teacher, Austin TX

Senior Thesis: “Synthesis and Structural Properties of Niobium Oxides Made in Molten Salt Fluxes”
Ph.D. 2009 UC Berkeley (Chemistry)
Currently postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley Labs

Senior Thesis: "Clash of the Titanates:  A Study of Ion-Exchange Reactions in Alkali Metal Titanium Oxides"
Currently graduate student at Missouri (Ph.D. in Chemistry)
Senior Thesis: "Variations on the Wheel:  Towards the Synthesis of a Reduced Titanium Layered Perovskite"
Senior Thesis: "Pickled Perovskites:  Synthesizing Mixed-Valent Niobium Layered Perovskites in a Molten Salt Flux"
Senior Thesis: "An Investigation of the Reduced Titanates NaTi2O4 and CaTi2O4"
Ph.D. 2004 University of Washington (Surface Science)
Currently employed at Ilika Technologies, Ltd
Senior Thesis: "Probing Relative Acidities in Solid Acid Layered Perovskites"
Ph.D. 2006 MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (Chemical Oceanography)
Currently Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Haverford College

Senior Thesis: "Synthesis of Novel Layered Perovskite Acids by Traditional Routes" 
Currently employed at Patterson Kelley, East Stroudsburg, PA

Senior Thesis: "Cooking with Salt to Make Pepper:  Novel Syntheses of Reduced Titanium Oxides"
D.Phil. University of Oxford (Solid State Chemistry)
Currently employed at Cabot Corporation, Albuquerque, NM

Senior Thesis: "The Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of CaTi2O4"  
Peace Corps in Ghana
Currently high school science teacher

Senior Thesis: "A Novel Synthesis of CaTi2O4"

Senior Thesis: "Turning Down the Heat: The Molten Salt Synthesis of Layered Perovskite Solid Acids"
Currently high school science teacher

Senior Thesis: "Turning White Powder into Black Powder: Synthetic Routes to Reduced Titanates"
M.D. University of Washington
Currently primary care physician in Central Washington 
Senior Thesis: "In Reciprocal Space, No One Can Hear You Scream: Structural Investigations of Reduced Alkali Niobates"
Currently employed at Tru Vue Glass Company in Chicago
Senior Thesis: "An Attempted Electrochemical Synthesis of Reduced Sodium Titanates"
Ph.D. University of Oregon (Protein Crystallography)
Currently Department Associate at Reed College
Senior Thesis: "The Intercalation/Deintercalation Chemistry of Lithium-Containing Solid Solutions"
M.D. and M. Public Health from Oregon Health Sciences University
Currently Resident at Legacy Health Systems
Senior Thesis: "The Synthesis of Reduced Oxoniobates from Molten Salt Fluxes"
Ph.D. 2000 Cornell University (Solid State Chemistry)
Currently at Intel Corporation, Portland, OR
Last modified: 11 September, 2009
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