she/her lc7785@princeton.edu B.S., Southern Methodist University, 2020 4th Year Graduate Student Lejla obtained her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where she researched hypervalent iodine species and their reactivities in the Tsarevsky lab. She joined the Stache lab in 2020, working on leveraging isocyanides in radical polymerization methods to generate…

he/him so423@cornell.edu B.S., Boston College, 2020 4th Year Graduate Student Sewon grew up in South Korea before coming to the US, attending middle and high school in Washington state. He then moved to the east coast to attend Boston College to earn a bachelor’s in chemistry with a minor in mathematics. During his time there…

she/her hj8391@princeton.edu B.S., Purdue University, 2021 3rd Year Graduate Student Hanning comes from Beijing, China. She attended Purdue University and worked in analytical (Dr. Kenttämma) and organic (Dr. Mei) labs. Upon graduation, she joined the Stache lab due to strong interest in alleviating plastic pollution. Her career dream is simply degrading a million tons of…

she/her mm9987@princeton.edu B.S., University of Florida, 2021 3rd Year Graduate Student Megan went to undergrad at the University of Florida, where she studied english and chemistry. In the lab of Dr. Seidel, she studied the oxo-Pictet-Spengler reaction using thiourea catalysts. In the Stache lab, Megan works on expanding small molecule synthesis methods using the photothermal…

she/her cp4278@princeton.edu B.S., Ball State University, 2018 M.A., Ball State University, 2021 3rd Year Graduate Student Cristina attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana for her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. During her undergrad, she conducted research on adhesive polysulfides synthesized from garlic extract components. For her master’s she helped develop an assay system for the…

he/him jd4825@princeton.edu B.S., University of Wisconsin Madison, 2022 2nd Year Graduate Student Jacob attended the University of Wisconsin Madison for undergrad, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with a minor in applied mathematics. While there, Jacob conducted research under Dr. Boydston on mechanochemically responsive small molecules for incorporation into 3D-printable functional materials. In…

they/them ct2822@princeton.edu B.S., The University of Texas at Austin, 2021 2nd Year Graduate Student Clotilde attended the University of Texas at Austin and earned a B.S. in chemistry, working in Dr. Zacharia Page’s lab developing novel 3D printing strategies and synthesizing dyes with expanded functionalities. They joined the Stache lab at Cornell University to learn…