Year: 2026

Congratulations, our paper on Confined-Space Selectivity in Enone Photodimerization Enabled by a photoactive Terphenyl Bis-Urea Macrocycle has just been accepted.  Students who drove the project include Vaibhavi Samant, Isuri Wijesekera,…Continue readingJust Accepted in Org. Chem. Front.

Congratulations, Vaibhavi Samant, Kazi Md Zubaer. Fahidat Gbadamosi and Jillian Eubanks!  Thanks especially to Sophya Garashchuk.   Our paper highlights this bis-urea macrocycle as a rare example of an isodesmic hydrogen-bonded…Continue readingJust Out in Chem Eur J. – Isodesmic Supramolecular Assembly of Phenylethynylene Bis-Urea Macrocycles!

Congratulations and best wishes for success to our talented graduating seniors, Josh Parson, Izzie Rushton, and Paras Srivastava!   Izzie successfully defended her Honors College thesis on Analysis of M-Terphenyl Bis-Urea…Continue readingCongratulations Seniors Josh Parsons, Izzie Rushton and Paras Srivastava!

Dr. Shimizu received the USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Science, Mathematics and Engineering.  This award recognizes one faculty per year for their outstanding research and scholarship.   Thanks to…Continue readingUSC Educational Foundation Research Award