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What can you do with a Dartmouth Chemistry degree?

Win the Nobel Prize (Barry Sharpless ’63).

Or become chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, and winner of the National Medal of Science (Marye Anne Fox Ph.D. ’74).

Here are some selected examples of other chemistry alumni. Although this list emphasizes graduates who became professional chemists or professors, most undergraduate chemistry majors go on to careers in other fields, including medicine, law, and business. For more information, see Career Services' 'Majors to Careers' pages.

 

Undergraduate Students:

• Frank Westheimer '32 (Harvard)
• John Baldwin '59 (Syracuse)
• John Zabriskie '61 (Upjohn/Pharmacia, BioArray Pharma)
• Barry Sharpless '63 (Scripps Research Institute)
• TJ Rodgers '70 (Cypress Semiconductor, Dartmouth Trustee)
• John Nairn '77 (Prof. and Richardson Chair of Wood Sci. & Eng., Oregon State Univ.)
• Chris Chidsey '78 (Stanford)
• Ian Baldwin '80 (Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology)
• Chris Morse '93 (Olin College)
• Ron Gregush '97 (orthopedic surgeon)
• John Magyar '98 (Barnard)
• James Petersson '98 (Penn)
• Megan Spence '98 (University of Pittsburgh)
• Katherine Willets '99 (UT Austin)
• Abby Bickley '00 (Air Force Institute of Technology)
• Yoji Kobayashi '01 (University of Kyoto, Japan)
• John Jewett '03 (University of Arizona)

Graduate Students:

• Donald Hupe, Ph.D. '72 (Warner Lambert / Pfizer / U. of Michigan )
• Ron Chance Ph.D. '74 (Georgia Tech)
• Marye Anne Fox Ph.D. '74 (chancellor, UCSD)
• Jill Panetta Ph.D. '80 (Innocentive)
• William Donaldson Ph.D. '81 (Marquette University)
• Barbara Boland Lussier Ph.D. '81 (Eastman Kodak)
• Marc Mansfield Ph.D. '81 (Stevens Institute of Technology)
• Michael Tsapakos Ph.D. '82 (radiologist, DHMC)
• William Dailey Ph.D. '83 (Penn)
• Jeff Byers Ph.D. '84 (Middlebury College)
• Paul Connett Ph.D. '84 (St. Lawrence University)
• Charles Nutaitis Ph.D. '85 (Lafayette College)
• Tami Spector Ph.D. '87 (University of San Francisco)
• Frank Switzer Ph.D. '87 (Coker College)
• Brian Smith Ph.D. '88 (Spectros Associates)
• Timothy Elgren Ph.D. '90 (Hamilton College)
• Michael Mosher MS '90 (Chair and Prof. of Organic Chemistry at the University of Northern Colorado)
• Gary Siuzdak Ph.D. '90 (Scripps Research Institute)
• Ernie Trujillo Ph.D. 1992 (Wilkes College)
• Jeffrey Schneider Ph.D. '92 (SUNY Oswego)
• David Anderson Ph.D. '93 (University of Wyoming)
• Erik Olson Ph.D. '93 (Upper Iowa University)
• Matt Posewitz Ph.D. '95 (NREL/Colorado School of Mines)
• Michael Russell Ph.D. '96 (Mt. Hood Community College)
• Helene Shea Ph.D. '96 (Johnson Matthey Pharma Services)
• David H. Blank Ph.D. '98 (Castleton State College) 
• Brett Findley Ph.D. '98 (St. Michael’s College)
• Igor Kourkine PhD '98 (Northwestern)
• Steven Mylon '98 (Lafayette College)
• Debra Sponholtz Ph.D. '98 (ChemBioTek)
• Will Sponholtz Ph.D. '98 (Cushing Academy)
• Erin Pelkey Ph.D. '99 (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
• Jon Russel Ph.D. '99 (St. Norbert College)
• Jeremy Smith MS '99 (New Mexico State)
• Josh Smith Ph.D. '99 (Humboldt State)
• Denyce Wicht Ph.D. '99 (Suffolk U)
• Heidi Hassinger Fraser Ph.D. '00 (Wyeth Research)
• Chris Junk Ph.D. '00 (DuPont)
• Dansu Li Ph.D. '00 (Schering Plough)
• Jinnzhi Ni Ph.D. '00 (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Alexey Teslja MS '00 (Fairleigh Dickinson U)
• Celeste Viscardi Ph.D. '00 (Wando High School, Mt. Pleasant SC)
• Yufa Liu Ph.D. '01 (Tiancheng International USA)
• Yingchun Lu Ph.D. '01 (AcceleDev Chemical)
• Elizabeth Pelczar MS '01 (Innophos)
• Janeta Popovici-Muller Ph.D. '01 (Schering Plough)
• Joel Sweetser MS '01 (Williston Northampton High School, Easthampton MA)
• Bobbijo van Beusichem Ph.D. '01 (Schering Plough)
• Michael Zhuravel Ph.D. '01 (Dendritic Nanotechnologies)
• Ryan Chau MS '02 (Millennium Pharmaceuticals)
• Frank Favaloro Ph.D. '02 (Ensemble Discovery Corp.)
• Jesse Fecker Ph.D. '02 (patent attorney, Ropes & Gray)
• Yongkai Li Ph.D. '02 (Genomics Institute, Novartis Research Foundation)
• Yan Lou Ph.D. '02 (Roche Palo Alto)
• Jillian Moncarz Ph.D. '02 (DuPont)
• Douglas Pippin Ph.D. '02 (Cephalon Pharma)
• Mark Tawa MS '02 (TransForm Pharmaceuticals)
• Jimmy Tung Ph.D. '02 (Institute for Advanced Learning and Research)
• Yi Zhang Ph.D. '02 (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
• Jeanese Badenock Ph.D. '03 (University of the West Indies, Barbados)
• Indranath Ghosh Ph.D. '03 (Galanea Corp.)
• Yigang He Ph.D. '03 (Girindus America)
• Jun Jiang Ph.D. '03 (Synta Pharmaceuticals)
• Tara Kishbaugh Ph.D. '03 (Eastern Mennonite U)
• Donghui Zhang Ph.D. '03 (LSU)
• Xudong Chen Ph.D. '04 (DuPont CR+D)
• Diana Stefanescu Ph.D. '04 (Penn State)
• Yanjun Wei Ph.D. '04 (Chief Executive, Viwit Pharmaceuticals, Shanghai)
• Natalia Blank Ph.D. '05 (Norwich U, Vermont)
• Andrei Burnin Ph.D. '05 (Seldon Corp.)
• Callie Schieffer MS '05 (Semitool)
• Krum Chuchev Ph.D. '06 (patent attorney)
• Roman Larichev Ph.D. '06 (DuPont CR+D)
• Pavle Milutinovic MS '06 (MD/PhD program, U Pittsburgh)
• Phillip Pelphrey Ph.D. '06 (Texas Wesleyan U)
• William Roberts Ph.D. '06 (St. Olaf College)
• Edward Sanville Ph.D. '06 (Loughborough U, UK)
• Corina Scriban Ph.D. '06 (Johnson Matthey, Cambridge, England)
• Yinghua Shen Ph.D. '06 (HHMI, Harvard)
• Jeffrey Sperry Ph.D. '06 (Pfizer, Groton, CT)
• Carlos Tassa Ph.D. '06 (Center for Systems Biology, Mass General Hospital)
• Cheng Zhong Ph.D. '06 (Beijing Spacecrafts)
• Virginia Anderson MS '07 (UC Boulder Ph.D. program)
• Jasmine Constanzo MS '07 (?)
• Rukman da Silva Ph.D. '07 (US FDA)
• Nicholas Grossoehme Ph.D. '07 (Assistant Professor, Winthrop University)
• William O'Neal Ph.D. '07 (legislative assistant, Rep. Rush Holt)
• Mary Reid MS '07 (Community College of Vermont)
• Kirsten Rinderspacher Ph.D. '07 (postdoc, Columbia Medical Center)
• Sudipta Roy Ph.D. '07 (Albany Molecular Research Inc)
• Sujata Roy Ph.D. '07 (Albany Molecular Research Inc)
• Edward (Hamp) Sessions Ph.D. '07 (Burnham Institute for Medical Research)
• Laura Sessions Ph.D. '07 (Chemistry Professor, Valencia College)
• Xiaobo Su MS '07 (GlaxoSmithKline, Shanghai)
• Michael Tambasco Ph.D. '07 (startup company, NY)
• Qing Xia MS '07 (law student, Duke)
• Cheryl J. Bourgeois Ph.D. '08 (Chem. Inst., Columbus State Community College)
• Veljko Popov MD/Ph.D. '08 (Radiology Resident, Lahey Clinic)
• Brian Anderson Ph.D. '09 (Assistant professor, Keene State University, NH)
• Addison Bouchard MS '09 (Faculty Associate, MA College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences)
• Yu Cai Ph.D. '09 (Postdoctoral Fellow, SUNY, Stony Brook)
• Samantha Desmarais Ph.D. '09 (Postdoc, Stanford University)
• Liangfeng Fu Ph.D. '09 (Research Associate, Dartmouth College)
• Hui Huang Ph.D. '09 (Research Scientist, ConocoPhillips)
• Kimberly Peaslee Ph.D. '09 (Finishing JD then on to Patent Law)
• Jolene Schuster Ph.D. '09 (Postdoc, Potsdam, Germany)
• Hui Wang Ph.D. '09 (Scientist, PharmaBlock, Inc., China)
• Sara Campbell Ph.D. '10 (Teaching, Merrimack High School, NH)
• Anna Greene Ph.D. '10 (postdoc, University of Delaware, Materials Science and Engineering Dept.)
• Colette Quinn Ph.D. '10 (Applications Scientist, TA Instruments, Lindon, UT)
• Brandon Smith Ph.D. '10 (Creare, Lebanon NH)
• Jian Yuan Ph.D. '10 (Postdoc, MIT)
• Nicoleta Raluca Hurubeanu MS '10 (Pharmacy, WA)
• Timothy W. Chapp Ph.D. '10 (Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, PA)
• Philip E. Alford Ph.D. '10 (Scientific Advisor, Cooper & Dunham LLP)

Alumni: contact us to have your name and website added to the list (or removed).