Category: Lab News

Undergraduate Poster Presentation

Undergraduates Veer and Jakob present research in the 2025 CLAS Undergraduate Research Symposium. Veer awarded best poster! Great work Kodanko Lab!

Elliot Passed His 4th Year Talk!

“Elliot Furr, of the Kodanko Lab, is one step closer to his PhD after giving his 4th year talk on: “Protein Ligand Conjugates and...

Megan Passed Her 4th Year Talk!

On Friday January 31st Megan Quandt passed her 4th year talk titled “Synthesis and Study of Bioactive Peptide Natural Products.” Great job Megan!!  ...

Kodanko Lab Undergraduates Sweep!

All three undergraduates from the Kodanko lab, Maddy Powers, Dia Rahman, and Valerie Akrawi, won poster awards today at the 2024 Dow Undergraduate Research...

Dr. Maddy Denison passed her defense!!

On Thursday August 15th Dr. Maddy Denison passed her thesis defense titled “Exploiting Light to Probe Biological Processes”. Congratulations Maddy!! Next she is headed...

2nd Year Candidacy Exams

Elliot and Kelli both passed their 2nd year exams and are now PhD Candidates! https://www.instagram.com/p/C6oWgaBrN1i/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

2024-2025 CBI Scholars

Kelli Chapman Awarded 2024-2025 Chemistry-Biology Interface Fellowship Kelli’s research focuses on photo-active Ru complexes via the synthesis of organic ligands, inorganic synthesis of complexes,...

2024 MSG award recipients

Elliot Furr, a second-year doctoral student in chemistry. His faculty advisor is Jeremy Kodanko, associate chair and associate professor of chemistry. Furr’s research project,...

Graduate Director Award

Four faculty members of #wsuchemistry were recognized – Andrea Matti (President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching), Zhenfei Liu (Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award), Jeremy Kodanko...