Lawrence J. Hill
Department of Chemistry
Ogden College of Science and Engineering
Western Kentucky University
People

Lawrence Hill

Assistant Professor

lawrence.hill@wku.edu

Student researchers and alumni

Towhid Tareq
MS student

Emma Gilliam
BS student

Esther Briggs
BS student


Jon Voyles
BS student


Seth Meadows
BS student


Eden Casebier
BS student

Lisanne Nguyen
BS student

Hannah Motes
MS student

Joseph Mesa
BS student
Went to medical at the University of Kentucky, Bowling Green

Rajib Nath
MS 2023 "Towards deposition of iron and nickel onto cadmium selenid/cadmium sulfide nanorods."

Alisha Mullick
High school student

Nidhi Patel
BS student


Hannah Jones
BS student
Went to medical at the University of Kentucky, Bowling Green

Kehinde Ayorinde
MS 2022 “Towards semiconductor nanorods with nickel/iron cocatalyst.”
​Went to Intel Corporation

Chloe Henson
BS 2022
Went to University of Colorado Boulder PhD program

Jeffery Palmer
BS student

Elizabeth Cook
Gatton graduate 2021


Fiona Wasson
BS 2021
Went to Cincinnati chemistry PhD program

Amol Jaybhaye
MS 2021 “Functionalized ionic liquids for improved CO2 hydrogenation catalysts.”

Augustine Yusuf
MS 2021 “Design of antioxidant monomer.”
Went to University of Kentucky Chemistry PhD progam

Austin (Skyler) Antle
MS 2020 “Synthesis of CdS/ZnS core/shell nanoparticles.”

Sara Biscotto
BS 2020
Went to work as a researcher at Vanderbilt

Ngoc Nguyen
Gatton graduate 2020
Went to Stanford University

Amanda Thompson
​Went to the University of Kentucky Pharmacy School

Morgan Willis
BS 2019
Went to Auburn Veterinarian School

Chris Collins
BS 2019 with Honors Thesis
MS student from fall 2022 - present

Corinne Warlick
BS 2019
2019 Fulbright Scholar - Wallenberg Wood Science Center, Sweden
Went to Vanderbilt PhD program

Elizabeth Embry
Gatton graduate 2019

Michael (Drake) Ballentine
MS 2018, “Imidazolium ionic liquids as multifunctional solvents for noble metal deposition onto semiconductor nanorods.”
Went to work at Soudal as a chemist

Hunter Sims
BS 2018
Went to Purdue Chemistry PhD program

Lydia Buzzard
BS 2018
Went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health

Marco Garcia
Gatton graduate 2018
Went to the University of Alabama in Huntsville

Conrad Jaconette
BS 2018

Branden Hinkley
BS 2017
Went to work at Kentucky State Police as a forensic chemist