Professors Marie Pak, Robert Wilson, and I send you greetings from the PUC's Chemistry Department, where we remain blessed with excellent and hard-working students, striving to enhance their educational experiences in any way we can.

It’s always exciting to acquire new instrumentation for use in labs and research projects. In the past several years, we purchased a new microwave plasma atomic emission spectrometer and a high-performance liquid chromatography instrument. These replaced aging instruments, when new, had far lower capabilities. Most recently, we have upgraded our NMR. It’s the same NMR core that generations of PUC organic chemistry students have “enjoyed”, but with hardware and software upgrades, it has new life, as though it is a new instrument. We thank generous alumni and friends for their donations as we make these additions. 

We continue to send graduates to medical, dental, and pharmacy schools. I’ve found it a pleasure to congratulate many of them in person at Loma Linda University graduation each spring. In addition, at least two of our alumni recently completed their chemistry PhDs. Congratulations to Daniel Stuart (2016) and Sogi Yoon (2018). A current junior-year student, Ralph Tyrell, was accepted to do undergraduate research at several institutions last summer. He chose to study in Manhattan at NYU, where he did work in computational chemistry. 

It’s such a joy to be involved in the lives of so many interesting and ambitious students.