News & Updates

Prof. Ogba gave an invited talk at the Aspiring Scholars Directed Research Program and at the ACS Spring 2026 National Meeting in Atlanta.

Max Schernikau '27 also presented at the ACS Meeting and won an Outstanding Student Poster Award by the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Congrats Max!

Prof. Ogba gave an invited talk at the 8th Southern California Theoretical Chemistry (SoCal TheoChem) meeting.

Prof. Ogba gave an invited talk in the Memorial Symposium in Honor of Robert H. Grubbs at the ACS Western Regional Meeting (ACS WRM). Nora Nickolov '28 and Max Schernikau '27 presented their research. Congrats, Nora and Max!

Prof. Ogba is a grant recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) LEAPS-MPS grant (CHE-2532469).

Prof. Ogba is a subaward grant recipient on Prof. Nicholas Ball's (Pomona College) National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant (2R15GM134457-02).

Aresema Ata '28, Max Schernikau '27, Nora Nickolov '28, and Zaan Saeed '28 attended and presented their research at the 2025 MERCURY Conference. Our group's efforts in publishing and securing a grant were featured on Harvey Mudd College News.

We have published a forum article in Trends in Chemistry. Max Schernikau '27 is the first author. Congratulations, Max! (Free access till August 10, 2025).

Prof. Ogba is a grant recipient of the American Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Funds (ACS-PRF).

Prof. Ogba gives a poster presentation at the 2025 Gordon Research Conference in Physical Organic Chemistry.

The Ogba Reaction Mechanisms Group welcomes a new member: Aresema Ata '28.
Nora Nickolov '28 is the 2025 Stauffer Chemistry Faculty Fellow.
Zaan Saeed '28 is the 2025 Stauffer Karukstis Fellow. Congratulations!

We have published a research article in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. Max Schernikau '27 is the first author. Congratulations, Max!

The Ogba Reaction Mechanisms Group at HMC welcomes four new members: Max Schernikau, Nata Velarde-Alvarez, Nora Nickolov, and Zaan Saaed.

Prof. Ogba moved his research group to Harvey Mudd College.
Prof. Ogba gave an invited talk at the 2024 Gordon Research Conference in Computational Chemistry.

Prof. Ogba gave an invited talk at the 2024 Reaction Mechanisms Conference.

Prof. Ogba and Dr. Liberman-Martin's recent article on hydroborations using a cyclic carbodiphosphorane catalyst was featured in ChemistryViews.

Ben, Julie, Daniel, Gabby, Prof. Ogba, and Dr. Liberman-Martin's article "Carbodiimide and Isocyanate Hydroboration by a Cyclic Carbodiphosphorane Catalyst" was published in Chemistry – A European Journal.