We are looking for talented and motivated graduate and undergraduate researchers to join the team!
Spring 2020
Left to right : Caroline Proulx, Evan Willis, Carolynn Davern, Hailey Young, Quibria Guthrie, Adam Rosfi, Briley Humphrey, Preston Gourville, Maxwell Bowles
Summer 2019
Left to right : Caroline Proulx, Preston Gourville, Hailey Young, Evan Willis,
Sophia Cornish, Quibria Guthrie, Brandon Lowe, Carolynn Davern
Summer 2018
top row, from left to right : Caroline Proulx, Michael McMechen, Evan Willis, Tyler Price
bottom row, from left to right: Quibria Guthrie, Carolynn Davern, Jazmine Lumpan
Summer 2017
from left to right: Caroline Proulx, Evan Willis, Tyler Price, Quibria Guthrie, Michael McMechen.
Graduate students
Quibria Guthrie
Graduate student (qaguthri@ncsu.edu)
Quibria Guthrie was born and grew up in Milwaukee, WI. She attended the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and obtained a B.S. in Chemistry in December 2015, with a focus on Biochemistry and a minor in Anthropology. She started her graduate studies at North Carolina State University in fall 2016. When she’s not in lab, Quibria enjoys shopping, swimming and sleeping.
Carolynn Davern
Graduate student (cdavern@ncsu.edu)
Carolynn is from Burlington, NC and finished her undergraduate studies at NC Wesleyan College. She majored in Chemistry with minors in Biology and Math. Carolynn spent summer 2017 in the Proulx lab as an undergrad REU student and came back as a graduate student in summer 2018. Besides chemistry, Carolynn is also interested in honey beekeeping and spending time with her friends and family.
Hailey Young
Graduate student (hayoung3@ncsu.edu)
Hailey was raised in Eldersburg, Maryland. She studied at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) and received her B.S. in Chemistry in May 2018. While at UNCW, she worked with Dr. Thomas Coombs developing a cost-effective route to cyclizing heterocyclic aryl vinyl ketones utilizing Photo-Nazarov reactions. Hailey started her graduate studies at NC State in August 2018. Outside of the lab, she enjoys hiking with her dog, rock climbing, and drawing.
Maxwell Bowles
Graduate student (mbowles@ncsu.edu)
Maxwell was born in San Diego, CA but I grew up in Cedar City, UT. He studied chemistry at Southern Utah University where he got he B.S. in May 2019. At SUU, he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Mackay Steffensen. He joined the Proulx lab in the Fall of 2019. In his spare time, he enjoys rock climbing, snowboarding and biking.
Undergraduate students
Adam Rosfi
Undergraduate student (arosfi@ncsu.edu)
Adam Rosfi was born in Queens, NY but was raised in Greensboro, NC. He is a junior in Chemistry at NC State. Adam enjoys cooking, sightseeing, and learning new things.
Briley Humphrey
Undergraduate student (bahumph2@ncsu.edu)
Briley is from Burgaw, NC and graduated from Pender Early College High School and Cape Fear Community College in May 2018. She is a junior studying chemistry at NC State and an active brother of Alpha Chi Sigma. In her free time, she enjoys reading, listening to music, and cooking.
Previous members
Preston Gourville - B.Sc. 2020, Senior Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Department of Chemistry.
Evan L. Willis - M.Sc. 2020.
Sophia Cornish - ACS Project SEED high school student, summer 2019.
Michael McMechen - M.Sc. 2018
W. Tyler Price - 2016 - 2018
Brandon Lowe - REU summer student (integrated Computational and Experimental), 2019
Jazmine Lumpan - REU summer student (integrated Computational and Experimental), 2018
Carolynn Davern - REU summer student (integrated Computational and Experimental), 2017
