The following is a list of chemistry Ph.D. recipients for the 2019 - 2020 school year.
Master's students
| First name | Last name | Advisor(s) | Thesis |
| Chris | Acquah | Brock | |
| Rasoul Daliri | Asbforoushani | Rodgers | |
| Malawara Arachchige Tharindu | Nimanthaka Karunaratne | Winter | |
| Iftekher | Mahmud | Ahn | |
| Susan A. | White | Kodanko | |
| Pietro | Geisler | Pflum | |
| Sandeep | Nadella | Kodanko | |
Doctorate students
| First name | Last name | Advisor(s) | Thesis |
| Kumuduni Tauni | Dissanayake | Rabuffetti | Synthesis, Structure, and Luminescenproperties of Rare-Earth-Doped Alkaline-Earth Fluorohalide Upconverting Nanocrystals |
| Prabuddha Madubashitha | Dodanduwa Waduge | Chow | Exploring the Binding of Aminoglyosides and Effect of Peptides on Functionally Important Regions of the Ribosome |
| Nour | El Harakeh | Verani | Investigation of Mechanism in 3D-Containing Electro/Photocatalysts for Proton/Water Reduction
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| Kudamaduwage Inosha | Dilani Gomes | Pflum | Substrate Trapping to Discover the Role of Histone Deacetylase Proteins Beyond Epigenetics |
| Lucas Ash | Hamlow | Rodgers | Modification of Bruker Amazon ETD and Solarix Mass Spectrometers Towards Infrared Multiple Photon Dissociation: Structural Characterization of Modified Nucleosides |
| Bett | Kimutai | Chow | Non-Canonical Targets, Reaction Kinetics, and Cellular Potency of Amino Acid-Linked Platinum(II) Compounds |
| Samuel Itumo | Mutinda | Brock | Synthesis and Characterization Of The Ternary Phase Co2-xRhxP Nanoparticles and Their Composition-dependent Electrocatalytic Activity Towards The Oxygen Evolution and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions, and Their Performance in Overall Water Splitting |
| Samarage Sameera | Prasad Perera | Rabuffetti | Rare-Earth-Activated Group VI d0metal Oxides as Thermosensitive Phosphors |
| Michael Gabriel | Pirrone | Crich | Influence of Conformational Restriction on the Antibacterial Activity and Ribosomal Selectivity of Aminoglycoside Antibiotics |
| Udumbara Menike | Rathnayake | Hendrickson | Functional Characterization of Accessory Proteins and Novel Activities in Direct and Indirect Trna Aminoacylation |
| Ruixi | Wang | Cherynak | Nonadiabatic Dynamics: A Semiclassical Approach |
| Madusha Lakshani | Watuthanthrige Perera | Bhagwat | Use of Alkoxyamines to Quantify and Map Uracils and to Kill B Cell Cancers |
| Whitney | Wood | Hendrickson | TRNA Aminoacylation: New Protein Players and New Reactions |
| Guanyu | Yang | Crich | Modification of 4,5-Aminoglycosides to Overcome Drug Resistance Bacteria and Toxic Side Effect |