Department of Chemistry alumni updates, winter 2020

Calvin Emanuel, Ph.D. 1999, hosted the 15th annual national You Be The Chemist Challenge.

Hrant Hratchian, Ph.D. 2005, received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

S.D.M. Chinthaka, Ph.D. 2008, was promoted to full professor at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

Mark Saly, Ph.D. 2010, was promoted to director of process chemistry at Applied Materials.

Ashley Campanali, Ph.D. 2011, was granted tenure at Grand Rapids Community College.

Joel Garcia, Ph.D. 2013, is now an associate professor at De La Salle University.

Derek Averill, Ph.D. 2014, started a position as chief science advisor at Sonoma Lab Works.

Lanka Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. 2014, began a position as a senior scientist at Solvay Chemicals Company.

Asha Hitihami Mudiyanselage, Ph.D. 2015, started a position as a research chemist at Magni Industries.

Levi Ekanger, Ph.D. 2016, received a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association and also accepted a position as an assistant professor at the College of New Jersey.

Ruchira Liyange, Ph.D. 2016, started a position as a chemist at Diversified Chemical Technologies.

Sue White, B.S. 2016, received a Salutes to Excellence Award and a Distinguished Service award from the Detroit Section of the American Chemical Society.

Yanlong Zhu, Ph.D. 2017, was promoted to staff scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lina Basal, Ph.D. 2018, started a position as a research scientist at Gilead.

Travis Ness, Ph.D. 2018, started a position as a senior scientist at Amide Technologies.

Larry Roy, B.S. 1980, will retire from a distinguished career in medicine in December. Dr. Roy spent 30 years at Advocate Children's Hospital in Chicago, most recently as the VP of Quality and Patient Safety.

Brian Johns, Ph.D. 1997, was named chief scientific officer of HemoShear Therapeutics.