Ph.D. advisees and their current positions
Completion dates/ Advisees
Present: Ranjith Kumar
Present: Lili Bao
2010: Premchendar Nandhikonda Postdoc at U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2007 Michael Begaye Instructor Diné College Shiprock campus
Thesis Title: "New Dual Fluorescent Dyes Based on Modified 'Excited State wih Extended Conjugation' Photophysical Model"
2003 Haishi Cao Asst. Professor Univ. of Nebraska at Kearney
Thesis title: “Arenedicarboximides as Versatile Building Blocks for Saccharide Sensors and New Fluorescent Dyes”
Ph.D. academic advisor:
Current: Melanie Crawford Current Ph.D. student
2002 Brian Ingram Sandia National Labs
Thesis title: Low Smoke Pyrotechnics Safety and Performance with Special
Topics in Energetic Materials”
2000 Brian Melof Sandia National Labs
Thesis title: Violence of Small-Scale Cook-Off Reactions”
M.S. advisees and their current positions
2009 Zhi Cao Purdue - Ph.D. program in chemistry
Thesis Title: “N-Aryl-Arenecarboximides: Versatile Fluorophores for Applications
in both Water Soluble Probes for Saccharides and as Panchromatic Dyes for Dye Senstized Solar Cells"
2007 Sangita Paudel CUNY - Ph.D. program in chemistry
Thesis Title: “A Comparative Study into Two Dual Fluorescent Mechanisms via
Positional Isomers of N-hydroxyarene-1,8-naphthalimides"
2003 Lisa Eskra Research chemist Stepan Inc., IL
Thesis Title: “Synthetic Approaches Toward a FRET-Based Saccharide
Chemosensor”*
2001 Haishi Cao Ph.D. program NMT
Thesis title: “Synthesis and Fluorescence Measurement of a Novel TICT
Fluorescent Saccharide Sensor”
2001 Qiang Li Ontagen, San Diego CA
Thesis title: “Synthesis and Spectroscopic Investigation of Bis-Boronic Acid
Receptor for Carbohydrates”
2000 Fang Liang Ontagen, San Diego CA
Thesis title: “Fluorescence Measurements of Mono and Disaccharides Using a
Novel Ditopic Bis-Boronic Acid Receptor”
2000 Devi Adhikari Postdoctoral associate, U. Minnesota
Thesis title: Fluorescence Studies of Monotopic Saccharide Receptors (3- and 2-
Phenylboronic Acid 1,8-Napthalene Dicarboximide) Involving Monosaccharides”
* 1st Prize 29th Annual Student Research Conference at Eastern New Mexico University. Graduate Division
Undergraduate senior thesis advisor
Current: Matthew Bush
Lindsay Hampton
Amy Everett
2006 Valerie Rowe currently applying to veterinary school
Thesis title: “Experimenting with Dual Fluorescence”
2005 Randy Hernandez Cabot Industries, Advanced Micropowders
Thesis title: “Toward Intrinsically Fluorescent Proteomimetics: Fluorescent Probe
Response to alpha-helical Structure of PBLG”
Noel Miller Ph.D. program University of Hawa’ii, Manoa
Thesis title: Integration of Sultones and their effect on the Fluorescent Attributes
of Various Types of 1,8-Napthaloyl)-3-aminopyridines”
Kenji Hutt M.S. program UNM
Thesis title: “Synthesis and Fluorescence Studies of Terphenyl Analogs and their
Interaction with PBLG”*
2004 Donald Wenner UNM Medical School, NM
Theis title: Internet Resources for Protein Sequences and Structures”
2003 Dustin English UNM Medical School, NM
Thesis title: “Synthesis of N-Phenylboronic acid-2,3-Napthalimide and its
Fluorescence Response to Monosaccharides”
Tom McGill Nursing program ASU, AZ
Thesis title: “A Preliminary Study of a Monosaccharide PET Chemosensor”
2001 Amanda Carnahan Loveland, Colorado
Thesis Title: Novel Fluorophore as Reporting Groups for Carbohydrate Sensing”
Lisa Eskra M.S. NMT Chemistry
2000 Justin Heynekamp Ph.D. graduate at UNM Chemistry
Thesis title: “Synthesis of 2-Nitrophenylboronic acid for use in Saccharide
Complexes”
Dahlia Diaz Research chemist Ciba Geigy, TX
Thesis title: “Synthesis of N-Phenylboronic acid-3-Nitronaphthlimide”
1999 Bernadette Hernandez Research Scientist Lab Sandia National Labs, NM
Thesis title: “Designer Ligands for Controlling Properties of Ceramic Thin Films”
1997 Jesse Wright USAF pilot, San Diego CA
Thesis title: “Synthesis of Three Imides (Naphthalic imide, Naphthalic diimide and
Perylene diimide).
* 1st Prize 29th Annual Student Research Conference at Eastern New Mexico University. Undergraduate Division
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