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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 (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.

• Frank Westheimer '32 (Harvard)
• John Zabriskie '61 (Upjohn/Pharmacia, BioArray Pharma)
• Barry Sharpless '63 (Scripps Research Institute)
• TJ Rodgers '70 (Cypress Semiconductor, Dartmouth Trustee)
• Chris Chidsey '78 (Stanford)
• Chris Morse '93 (Olin College)
• Ron Gregush '97 (orthopedic surgeon)
• Megan Spence '98 (University of Pittsburgh)
• John Magyar '98 (Barnard)
• James Petterson '98 (Penn)
• Katherine Willets '99 (UT Austin)
• Abby Bickley '00 (Michigan State)

• Ron Chance Ph.D. '74 (Georgia Tech)
• Marye Anne Fox Ph.D. '74 (chancellor, UCSD)
• Jill Panetta Ph.D. '80 (Innocentive)
• Barbara Boland Lussier Ph.D. '81 (Eastman Kodak)
• Marc Mansfield Ph.D. '81 (Stevens Institute of Technology)
• William Donaldson Ph.D. '81 (Marquette)
• 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 (University of Nebraska, Kearney)
• Gary Siuzdak Ph.D. '90 (Scripps Research Institute)
• Jeffrey Schneider Ph.D. '92 (SUNY Oswego)
• Erik Olson Ph.D. '93 (Upper Iowa University)
• David Anderson Ph.D. '93 (University of Wyoming)
• 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)
• Igor Kourkine PhD '98 (Northwestern)
• Brett Findley Ph.D. '98 (St. Michael’s College)
• Debra Sponholtz Ph.D. '98 (ChemBioTek)
• Will Sponholtz Ph.D. '98 (Cushing Academy)
• Jeremy Smith MS '99 (New Mexico State)
• Denyce Wicht Ph.D. '99 (Suffolk U)
• Josh Smith Ph.D. '99 (Humboldt State)
• Jon Russel Ph.D. '99 (St. Norbert College)
• Erin Pelkey Ph.D. '99 (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
• Chris Junk Ph.D. '00 (DuPont)
• Heidi Hassinger Fraser Ph.D. '00 (Wyeth Research)
• 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)
• Elizabeth Pelczar MS '01 (Innophos)
• Joel Sweetser MS '01 (Williston Northampton High School, Easthampton MA)
• Yufa Liu Ph.D. 2001 (Tiancheng International USA)
• Yingchun Lu Ph.D. 2001 (AcceleDev Chemical)
• Janeta Popovici-Muller Ph.D. 2001 (Schering Plough)
• Bobbijo van Beusichem Ph.D. 2001 (Schering Plough)
• Michael Zhuravel Ph.D. 2001 (Dendritic Nanotechnologies)
• Ryan Chau MS 2002 (Millennium Pharmaceuticals)
• Mark Tawa MS 2002 (TransForm Pharmaceuticals)
• Frank Favaloro Ph.D. 2002 (Ensemble Discovery Corp.)
• Jesse Fecker Ph.D. 2002 (patent attorney, Ropes & Gray)
• Yongkai Li Ph.D. 2002 (Genomics Institute, Novartis Research Foundation)
• Yan Lou Ph.D. 2002 (Roche Palo Alto)
• Jillian Moncarz Ph.D. 2002 (DuPont)
• Douglas Pippin Ph.D. 2002 (Cephalon Pharma)
• Jimmy Tung Ph.D. 2002 (Institute for Advanced Learning and Research)
• Yi Zhang Ph.D. 2002 (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
• Donghui Zhang Ph.D. '03 (LSU)
• Jeanese Badenock Ph.D. '03 (University of the West Indies, Barbados)
• Indranath Ghosh Ph.D. 2003 (Galanea Corp.)
• Yigang He Ph.D. 2003 (Girindus America)
• Jun Jiang Ph.D. 2003 (Synta Pharmaceuticals)
• Tara Kishbaugh Ph.D. 2003 (Eastern Mennonite U)
• Xudong Chen Ph.D. 2004 (DuPont CR+D)
• Diana Stefanescu Ph.D. 2004 (Penn State)
• Callie Schieffer MS 2005 (Semitool)
• Natalia Blank Ph.D. 2005 (Norwich U, Vermont)
• Andrei Burnin Ph.D. 2005 (Seldon Corp.)
• Yanjun Wei Ph.D. 2005 (Viwit Pharma, Shanghai)
• Pavle Milutinovic MS 2006 (MD/PhD program, U Pittsburgh)
• Krum Chuchev Ph.D. 2006 (patent attorney)
• Roman Larichev Ph.D. 2006 (DuPont CR+D)
• Phillip Pelphrey Ph.D. '06 (Texas Wesleyan U)
• William Roberts Ph.D. 2006 (St. Olaf College)
• Edward Sanville Ph.D. 2006 (Loughborough U, UK)
• Corina Scriban Ph.D. 2006 (CARLA, Heidelberg)
• Yinghua Shen Ph.D. 2006 (HHMI, Harvard)
• Jeffrey Sperry Ph.D. 2006 (NIH postdoc, Penn)
• Carlos Tassa Ph.D. 2006 (Center for Systems Biology, Mass General Hospital)
• Cheng Zhong Ph.D. 2006 (where are you?)
• Virginia Anderson MS 2007 (UC Boulder Ph.D. program)
• Jasmine Constanzo MS 2007 (?)
• Mary Reid MS 2007 (Community College of Vermont)
• Xiaobo Su MS 2007 (GlaxoSmithKline, Shanghai)
• Qing Xia MS 2007 (law student, Duke)
• Rukman da Silva Ph.D. 2007 (US FDA)
• Nicholas Grossoehme Ph.D. 2007 (postdoc, Indiana)
• William O'Neal Ph.D. 2007 (legislative assistant, Rep. Rush Holt)
• Kirsten Rinderspacher Ph.D. 2007 (postdoc, Columbia Medical Center)
• Sudipta Roy Ph.D. 2007 (Albany Molecular Research Inc)
• Sujata Roy Ph.D. 2007 (Albany Molecular Research Inc)
• Edward (Hamp) Sessions Ph.D. 2007 (Burnham Institute for Medical Research)
• Laura Sessions Ph.D. 2007 (grants writer, South Florida Science Museum)
• Michael Tambasco Ph.D. 2007 (startup company, NY)

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