Meet the Alumni imagineers at the Oh Lab
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Steven Marotta
Undergraduate Student
Chemistry, Penn State, 2026
Current: Graduate School, Univ. of Maryland, Chemistry
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Nikitha Kanumura
Undergraduate student
Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2026
Schreyer Honors College (2024-2026)
ACS March Meeting Poster Presentation (2026)
Thesis: Investigating the effect of external conditions and chemical structure on water sorption and dissociation and cation identity on ion transport and selectivity in weak crosslinked polyelectrolyte membranes
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Ania Chandra
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Michael Shaqfeh
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2025
Schreyer Honors College (2023-2025)
Thesis: Determining the Effect of Internal Polymer Chemistry and External pH and Concentrations on Ion and Water Transport in Weakly Charged Crosslinked Polymer Membranes
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Duncan Caltagarone
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2025
Schreyer Honors College (2023-2025)
Thesis: Sorption, Free Volume Desorption, and Ionically Bonded Desorption of Doxorubicin using 2.1 Ion-Exchange Capacity (IEC) Sulfonated Copolymer Membrane
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Andrew Lukaszewski
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2025
President, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)’s Penn State Chapter (2024-2025)
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Joseph Romano
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2025
NSF REU Biofellowship (Summer 2024)
UG Research Conference Presentation Travel Award (Spring 2025)
APS National Meeting Presentation (Oral & Poster) in Anaheim, CA (Spring 2025)
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Christian Mora
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2025
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Charleen Rahman
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2024
Chemical Eng. UG Research Award (2024)
NSF IUCRC REM Scholarship (Summer 2024)
Schreyer Honors College (2023-2024)
Thesis: The Effect of External Salt Solution Concentration on Weakly Charged Polyacrylic Acid-Based Polymer Membranes in Clean Technologies for Sustainabilit
Current: Graduate School, Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University
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Corey Roberts
Undergraduate Student
Material Chemistry, Univ. of Kentucky, 2025
NSF IUCRC Research Support (Summer 2024)
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Rachel Lau
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State
NSF IUCRC REM Scholarship (Summer 2024)
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Kyle Tierney
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State
NSF REU Biofellowship (Summer 2023)
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Taekwon Kim
Undergraduate Student
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State, 2024
Led the Penn State Art Festival’s outreach activities (Summer 2024)
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Riley Kracaw
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2024
Tom and Nancy West Chemical Engineering Undergraduate scholarship (Summer 2023)
Led the Penn State Art Festival’s outreach activities (Summer 2024)
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Lauren Collins
Undergraduate Student
Biomedical Eng. University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, 2025
Big 10 Academic Alliance SROP Scholarship (Summer 2023)
Led the Penn State Art Festival’s outreach activities (Summer 2024)
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Adele Godby
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2024
Larry Duda Fellowship (2022)
AIChE National Meeting Presentation in Phoenix, AZ (Fall 2022)
Current: Graduate School, Chemical Engineering, NS State (with fellowship)
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Jack Szymanski
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2024
Schreyer Honors College (2024)
Thesis : Understanding Design Principles in Weakly Charged Polyacrylic Acid-Based Polymer Membranes at Varying External pH
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Dan Kang
Undergraduate Student
Chemistry, Penn State, 2024
Led the Penn State Art Festival’s outreach activities (Summer 2024)
Current: Graduate School, Chemistry, Yonsei University
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Sally Berry
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2024
Equity REU Fellowship at Penn State (2021)
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Hai Doan
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2024
Current: Graduate School, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida
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Zeming He
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2023
Drawdown Scholarship at Penn State (Summer 2022)
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Ziqiao Wang
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2023
NSF IUCRC REM Scholarship (Summer 2022)
Current: Graduate School, Chemical Engineering, Penn State
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Alyssa Keptner
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Trine Univ., 2023
NSF REU Biofellowship (Summer 2022)
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Evan Bhagat
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2023
NSF Biofellowship (Summer 2022)
Larry Duda Fellowship (2022)
AIChE National Meeting Presentation in Phoenix, AZ (Fall 2022)
Current: Chemical Engineering, MIT
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Waytt Thomas
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2022
Schreyer Honors College (2021-2022)
Thesis : Hydrogenated and Sulfonated Triblock Copolymers for Clean Water
NSF REU Biofellowship (Summer 2021)
NSF IUCRC REM Scholarship (Summer 2022)
Current: Armstrong World Industries
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Moaz Elazzazi
Undergraduate Student
Biomedical Engineering, University of Buffalo, 2022
NSF REU Biofellowship (Summer 2021)
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Christina Maranas
Undergraduate Student
Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State, 2025
Current: Graduate school, Materials Science and Engineering, Univ. of Washington
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Andrew Han
Undergraduate Student
Chemical Engineering, Penn State, 2020
Schreyer Honors College, 2020
Thesis : An Initial Study of Polysulfone-Nanodiamond Mixed Matrix Membranes for Oxygen/Nitrogen Separation (co-advised by Dr. Frederick Stewart, Energy and Environmental Science and Technology, Idaho National Laboratory)