Congrats to both Maddie and Jocelyn on their achievement!

The Guthikonda Fellowship supports graduate students who show outstanding work in research and teaching. Congrats Luis!

Congratulations to Professor Makeda Tekle-Smith for a great talk in the "Fluorine in Drug Design" symposium, and 2nd year graduate student Mimi Lavin for a great talk in the "Physical Organic Chemistry" symposium.

Congratulations Mimi on receiving the WCC/Lilly Emerging Talent Award! The award is sponsored by Eli Lilly & Company and funds travel to the ACS Spring 2026 Meeting, where Mimi will be presenting a poster and giving a talk.

Congratulations Luis on being published in JACS, alongside collaborators!

The lab visited Bryant Park Winter Village to celebrate the holidays.

Sean Bryant recently gave a research talk on his work on HAT selectivity of novel pyridinium photocatalysts at the Tri-institutional Organic Chemistry Research Meeting between NYU, Columbia University, and the City College of New York.

The Tekle-Smith Lab was one of eighty recipients of the Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) grants, awarded by ACS PRF Committee from the spring 2025 application cycle. These new grants were awarded to doctoral new investigators, new directions, undergraduate new investigators, and undergraduate research grants, totaling $8,630,000 awarded.

Congrats to Elaine Chao, who received the Guthikonda, Walling, Nakanishi, and Breslow Fellowship for excellence in organic chemistry.

Congrats to Gulnihal Tomur, who received the Jack Miller teaching award.

Congrats to Sean Bryant, who received the Moloy and Metzger Research Fund for excellence in organic chemistry.

Mimi Lavin, Luis Pablo Arriga Gonzalez, and Michael Baxter have joined the lab as first-year graduate students.

Elaine Chao has joined the group as a first year graduate student.

Sean was awarded the Guthikonda, Katz, Turro and Danishefsky (KTD) Fellowship in Organic Chemistry

Jimmy was awarded the Guthikonda, Walling, Nakanishi, and Breslow (WNB) Fellowship in Organic Chemistry

Juan was awarded the S&V Fourman Fellowship

Dr. Aldhous joins us as our first postdoctoral fellow! Tim recently completed his PhD with Prof. John Bower at the University of Liverpool.

Gulnihal joins as an incoming graduate student. She recently completed her BA at Rice University.

Makeda gave a talk on her career journey during Columbia Chemistry's 'PhD for a Day!' event.

Congratulations Erik on receiving the Guthikonda fellowship for summer research.