Alumni

• Olivia Downey is currently a Junior, ACS Chemistry major at Xavier
• Mulundano Machiya is currently a Senior, Physics major at Xavier, applying to graduate programs this year.
• Kutemwa Masafwa is currently a Senior, ACS Chemistry major at Xavier, applying to graduate programs this year.
• Avery Matthews graduated from Xavier with a degree in Neuroscience and is currently considering and preparing applications for graduate programs.

(scholars pictured with Dean Estella Atekwana, alumni Kingston Robinson and co-director Jesus Velazquez)

• Jonah Brown completed his degree at Xavier and pursued a Master’s in Teaching degree.  He is now teaching and living in Berkeley, CA.
  • Jonah is an author on a publication! Chang, et al. 2020, NMR quantification of halogen-bonding ability to evaluate catalyst activity. Org. Lett. 22 (16):6647-6652. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02427
• Kingston Robinson completed his degree at Xavier and is now in the Chemistry PhD Program at University of California, Davis, where he is a member of the Velázquez lab. He is the recipient of a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

• Ke’La Kimble returned to Xavier for her senior year. In Fall 2019, she began a PhD program at UC San Diego and now is a member of the Prather lab.
• Alaysia Madison returned to Xavier for her senior year. After graduation, she spent the summer in the France/Belgium iREU program. She’s now back in the US working as infectious disease laboratory technician at HealthTrackRx.
• Tiffany Phillips graduated with her degree in Biochemistry from Xavier University.