Ph.D.'s Awarded 1995-96

Temershah Ahmadi Colloidal Metallic Nanoparticles: Dynamics, Morphology, and Catalysis (Professor M. A. El-Sayed)
Fatemeh Akbarian Spectroscopic Studies of Sol-Gel Optical Materials and Molecular Excited States (Professor J. I. Zink)
Charles Bell Structural Studies of the Action of Diphtheria Toxin (Professor D. S. Eisenberg)
Brett Beno Theoretical Studies of Diels-Alder Reactions (Professor K. N. Houk)
Cynthia Beno Boron-Rich Oligomers for BNCT and Functionalized Carboranes for Radioimmunotherapy (Professor M. F. Hawthorne)
Nathan R. Brandstater Photofragmentation Dynamics of |JKM> State-Selected CD3I: Rotational Distributions, Curve Crossing, and Ionization Mechanisms (Professor D. A. Baugh)
Lawrence Carter Theoretical Studies of Reaction Dynamics and Structure at Semiconductor Surfaces (Professor E. A. Carter)
Barbara DiCamillo Endohedrals and Other Interesting Fullerenes (Professors M. A. El-Sayed and R. L. Whetten)
George Ellis Fullerene-Acetylene Molecular Scaffolding: Novel High Carbon Content Compounds and Progress Toward a New Class of Carbon Allotropes (Professor Y. Rubin)
Christopher Fuglesang The Role of the T-Matrix in Photodissociation Dyanmics (Professor D. A. Baugh)
Timothy Garner Interaction of Photolytically Produced Hydrogen Atoms with Silicon Surfaces (Professor D. A. Baugh)
Douglas Gibson Generalized Valence Bond Molecular Dynamics (Professor E. A. Carter)
Jennifer Kelly Structural Studies of Neurotrophin-3 (Professor T. O. Yeates)
Mehrak Kiankarimi Geminal Disubstitution Effect in Annulation Reactions and Synthesis of Modified Hexose Nucleosides (Professor M. E. Jung)
Erin Mangan Assembly of a Polar Flagellar Structure Regulates Gene Expression in the Dimorphic Bacterium Caulobacter crescentus (Professor J. W. Gober)
Karl William Maurer Work Toward the Synthesis of Tautomycin (Professor R. W. Armstrong)
Daniel McInnes Transition metal promoted cyclizations (Professor C. A. Merlic)
Kimloan Nguyen Nanoparticles of Magnetic Materials (Professor H. D. Kaesz)
Anthony Ogawa The Total Synthesis and Structure Activity Relationship Study of Serine/Threonine Phosphatase Inhibitor Calyculin C (Professor R. W. Armstrong)
Michelle Radeke Ab Initio and Monte Carlo studies of Metal and Semiconductor Growth Mechanisms (Professor E. A. Carter)
Jennifer Radkiewicz A Theoretical Study of Asparaginyl and Aspartyl Degradation (Professor K. N. Houk)
Geoffrey Gregg Reynolds Challenging Problems in Electron Correlation (Professor E. A. Carter)
Mark Schaeffer Potential Energy Surfaces of Jet Cooled van der Waals Clusters via Intermolecular Ionization Loss Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy (Professor P. M. Felker)
Jill Shirokawa The Dichotomous Transcriptional Regulator of Drosophila Dorsal/Ventral Patterning: the Dorsal Morphogen (Professor A. J. Courey)
Daniel Sutherlin The Synthesis of C-Glycoside Inhibitors of Cell Surface Carbohydrate Receptors Exploiting the Carbohydrates Stereochemical and Connective Diversity (Professor R. W. Armstrong)
David Talaga Gas Phase Photochemistry of CVD Precursors and Time-Dependent Theory of Vibronic Interactions (Professor J. I. Zink)
Binh Vu Substituent Effects on Dipolar Cycloadditions and Total Synthesis of Natural Products (Professor M. E. Jung)
James Wingrove The regulation of compartmentalized flagellar gene expression in caulobacter crescentus (Professor J. W. Gober)
Jeffrey Wootton Spectroscopic and Theoretical Studies of Photoinduced Charge Transfer (Professor J. I. Zink)
Difei Yang Spectroscopic and Analytical Studies of Wild Type and Strcturally Perturbed Bacteriorhodopsin (Professor M. A. El-Sayed)


The Department would like to thank the following for financial contributions to our Graduate program: Ralph & Charlene Bauer, Chemistry Advisory Council Fund, The Clorox Company, E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company, George Gregory, the James D. McCullough Prize Fund, Products Research and Chemical Corporation, the Donald Cram Graduate Fellowship, UCLA Association of Chemists and Biochemists, The Upjohn Company, the SG Fellowship, and Sylvia Winstein.