Katy was Dr. Miller’s CHEM 130 lab TA in Fall 2015 and joined the Miller research lab in Nov 2015 as the fourth ever member of the lab. She did a full-time summer research experience in summer 2016 in the Miller lab (funded by the Parish lab at the Univ of Richmond) studying asphaltene aggregation, which led to her first co-authored publication. Though, she actually started in the lab by working on the DNA polymerase project, which also earned her co-authorship on a publication. Then, during a weekly ACS Friday seminar, Truman State Univ alum Dr. Jesse Jokerst (UCSD) gave a presentation that inspired Katy and led to a collaboration that resulted in a publication with Jokerst in 2018 and another in 2022. Katy graduated from Truman State Univ in May 2018 with a B.S. in Chemistry. Katy then attended Michigan State Univ for graduate school where she would earn her Master’s and would get married. She is now in the Chemistry PhD program at Stony Brook University doing computational chemistry.
Fun fact, while working as Dr. Miller’s TA in Fall 2019, Katy told Bill that she would never do computational chemistry research…