I am currently recruiting TWO PhD students for Fall 2025. Prospective students, please email me with a brief statement of research interests, CV, and transcript(s).
| Meet the Current Graduate Students! | ||||||
| Name | Dissertation/Thesis | Professional career development | ||||
| Reide Jacksin (MS)
Daniel Sheehan (MS) Mohammad Rashid (PhD) |
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| Meet the Proud Alumni [Graduate students] | ||||||
| Name | Dissertation/Thesis | Professional career development | ||||
Boyoung Song |
• PhD (August 2020)• Dissertation: Geochemical behavior of low valence manganese oxides: Effects of structural impurity and secondary mineral | • Geochemistry Department, Sandia National Laboratories• Postdoctoral researcher (Dept of Environmental Geosciences at the University of Vienna) (September 2020)• 2017 Clay Mineral Society Research Grant Award
• One of the first PhD students in the EES dept. |
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| Chris Elofson | • MS (August 2019)• Thesis: Proton-promoted and electron transfer dissolution of nano-sized hausmannite: Implications for chromium and manganese cycling in surficial environments | • Golder Associates, Inc. (ranked #19 on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s top 500 Design Firms list, 2019) | ||||
Alex Nawotka |
• MS (May 2019)• Thesis: Evaluation of small unilamellar vesicles as a removal method of benzo[a]pyrene from humic substances in soils | • SSM Group, Inc.• 2017 GRASP (Temple Univ. Graduate Research Award Sustainability Program) award | ||||
| Meet the Proud Alumni [Undergraduate researchers] | ||||||
| Name | SchoolMajor | Honors/Awards/ | Products (papers/ presentations) | Professional career developments | ||
| Ben Burch | Temple Environ. Science | • Diamond Award• 2020 Natan Luehrmann-Cowen Memorial Award• 2019 CARAS Award | • Fulbright semi-finalist• Accepted to Graduate Program at University of Leeds (UK) | |||
| Melissa Sherman | Temple Geology | • 2017 Frances Velay Fellowship• 2019 Molnar Award | • NanoTech 2019• Goldschmidt 2018• Temple URP poster 2018 | • Graduate Program in Water Science and Policy at University of Delaware | ||
| Linda Nguyen | Temple Earth & Space Sci. w/ Teaching | • NanoTech 2019• Temple URP poster 2018 | • Laboratory Assistant in Thomas Jefferson University | |||
| Quyen Nguyen | Temple Biology | • Honors program | • NanoTech 2019• Goldschmidt 2018• Temple URP poster 2018 | • Applied to medical schools (graduation in May, 2020). | ||
| EhsanSani | Temple Engineering | • 1 Peer-reviewed scientific journal• NanoTech 2019• GSA 2015 | • PhD in University of California, Los Angeles• Postdoctoral researcher at Caltech (July, 2020) | |||
| Zhewen Zhang | Vanderbilt Chemistry | • GSA 2015 | ||||
Katie Hayes |
Temple Geology | • 1 peer-reviewed research paper• NanoTech 2019• Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization conference 2016• ACS 2016
• Temple URP poster 2016 |
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| Julie Mui | Temple Environ. Science | • 2 peer-reviewed research papers• NanoTech 2019• ACS 2016• GSA 2015
• TURF-CreWS poster 2015 |
• Criterion Laboratories, Inc. | |||
| Jennifer Ngo | Temple Environ. Science | • 1 peer-reviewed research paper• Temple URP poster 2014 | • Dept. of Environmental Protection (NJ) | |||
