Odoh Research Group
Principal Investigator
Odoh Samuel O.
CAREER
Associate Professor, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV 07/2022-date
Assistant Professor, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV 07/2016-07/2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 09/2013-06/2016
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 01/2013-09/2013
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada 06/2009-12/2012
M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada 01/2005-12/2006
B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria 09/2000-09/2004
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AWARDS AND HONORS
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National Science Foundation Award # 18000387 ($399,999). 2018-2022
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University Research Opportunities (UROP) Award for Dillon Stetler. 2019-2020
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University Research Opportunities (UROP) Award for Shaina Bird. 2017-2018
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Honors Undergraduate Research Award (HURA) for Janel Reed. 2017-2018
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Invited Summer Intern 2011
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Seaborg Summer Research Fellow, Seaborg Institute, LANL, NM, USA. 2010
Graduate Students
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Gideon Odonkor (2023-202X)
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Dipak Panthi (2017-2022; completed a Ph.D.)
Dipak is now a professor at Dalton State College in Georgia
​Kevin Curtis (2020-2024; completed a Ph.D.)
Kevin is going to PNNL as a postdoctoral fellow
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Olabisi Suleiman (2018-2023; completed a Ph.D.)
Olabisi is now a professor at Virginia Union University
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Olajumoke Adeyiga (2017-2022; completed a Ph.D.)
Olajumoke is currently a postdoctoral fellow
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Post Doc
Naveen .K. Dandu (Argonne National Laboratory)
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Undergraduate Students
Zephyr Dillon (Currently a Ph.D. student at OSU)
Rafiuddin Galib (graduated)
Janel Reed (Completed M.Sc. Notre Dame and moved to industry)
Janelle Bustarde (Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV)
Zoe Long (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Shaina Bird (Clinical Pharmacist in the Reno-Tahoe area)
Robert Lovern
Sirui Wang (Completed M.Sc. degree at the University of California, Riverside)
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