Group news

2025

Summer

Congratulations to Guangshou and Andrew on their alkene amino etherification work published at ACS Catalysis! 

Congratulations to Dr. Noah Waktins, the newest PhD of the Wang Group!

Sam, EJ, and Eni awarded the fellowships from the department and Graduate School - Congratulations!

Welcome Jakob Narrow, Jonathan Garnica, and Guorong Hong to join the Wang group for research this summer!

Spring

Congratulations to EJ, Guangshou, and Noah on oxidative allylic amination work published at ACS Catalysis! 

Congratulations to Mayah on delivering a great poster presentation about her research at 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium!

The group is excited about Chuck's (our Dr. Hendrick) return visit! Thanks to Chuck for delivering a fantastic talk and making a great day at Duke Chemistry!

The Wang group's mini-reunion at the ACS meeting with Dr. Chuck Hendrick and Dr. Brett Hemric, as well as our extended group members from UTampa.

Congratulations to Connor, Mayah, and Melanie on receiving URS awards Spring 2025!

2024

Fall

Congratulations to Andrew, Justin and Sam on their cyclopropane ring-opening chemistry published at Org. Lett.!

Congratulations to Noah and Yung on their work published as a featured article at Chem Catalysis!

Congratulations to Connor, Mayah, and Melanie on receiving URS awards Fall 2024!

Welcome Joanna Hu, high school student from NCSSM, to join the Wang group to conduct research.

Summer

Congratulations to Dr. Maria Velopolcek on her successful PhD defense! Best wishes to future endeavors!

Congratulations to Eni on receiving the Kathleen Zielik Fellowship for Spring 2025!

Congratulations to Noah on receiving the Jeffs Fellowship for Spring 2025!

Congratulations to Justin Zhang on starting his medical school at the University of Maryland Fall 2024!

Welcome undergraduate students Connor Barritt & Mayah Ding to join the Wang group and start research in lab.

Spring

Congratulations to Andrew Nguyen on starting his new position as a research associate at EpiCypher! 

Congratulations to Justin on delivering a great presentation on his research at 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium and the Chemistry graduation with distinction poster session!

The group celebrated the New Year of 2024 together at our annual holiday party.

Welcome Duke undergraduate student Melanie Espinoza to join the Wang Lab for research.

 

Positions Available in the Wang Group at Duke Chemistry

Postdoctoral positions

The application should include your curriculum vitae, research summary, a short description of your future research interests, and contact information for three references. Please send your application to Dr. Qiu Wang by email in one PDF file. Strong candidates will be contacted for recommendation letters.

Graduate students

Prospective graduate students interested in joining our group are encouraged to contact Dr. Qiu Wang directly.

If you are interested in applying to graduate school in the Department of Chemistry at Duke University, you can find more information through the department web site: http://www.chem.duke.edu/graduate.

Undergraduate students

Motivated undergraduates who are interested in organic synthesis and chemical biology are welcome to work with our group. Please contact Dr. Qiu Wang for available research opportunities.

Those interested in working in the Wang group for independent study should also review the specific departmental requirements at http://www.chem.duke.edu/undergraduate.