2023
March 2023
Dr. Rossi receives the 2022-2023 Rozzane Brooks Dedicated Teaching Award [link].
February 2023
Dr. Rossi receives a grant from Organic Syntheses to develop new methods for preparing phosphate esters [link].
Taz Cutrona-Bouillon ’25 joins the lab. Welcome Taz!
2022
December 2022
Sophia Boccio ’25 joins the lab. Welcome Sophia!
October 2022
Nate and Jake present their research at the Michael Bond Alumni-Undergraduate Science Symposium [link].
May 2022
Nate Turner ’24 joins the lab. Welcome Nate!
February 2022
Jake Ballagh ’23 joins the lab. Welcome Jake!
2021
Jan 2021
Dr. Rossi begins a one year sabbatical in the lab of former Rossi Lab Member Josh Baccile.
2020
May 2020
Congratulations to Maddy Berry and Christian Harrison on their graduation. Maddy has accepted a job at a Ecolectro, a start-up company in Ithaca, and Christian will pursue a PhD at the University of South Carolina.
2019
May 2019
Former lab member Tyler Potter successfully defends his PhD thesis at Yale. Tyler will be joining Pfizer as a Research Scientist. Congratulations Tyler.
Congratulations to Haley Morgenstern and Dan Rojas on their graduation. Haley will pursue her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Dan will pursue his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Delaware.
February 2019
Maddy Berry ’20 joins the lab. Welcome Maddy!
2018
September 2018
Christian Harrison ’20 joins the lab. Welcome Christian!
June 2018
Haley Morgenstern’19 joins the lab. Welcome Haley!
May 2018
Congratulations to Tyler Schwertfeger on his graduation. Tyler will pursue his PhD in Chemistry at Cornell.
2017
November 2017
Former lab member Mike Wolfin successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis at Cornell. Mike will be doing a post-doc with Tom Baker in the Department of Entomology at Penn State.
June 2017
Dan Rojas ’19 joins the lab. Welcome Dan!
May 2017
Congratulations to Danielle Cervasio on her graduation. Danielle will pursue her PhD in Pharmacology at SUNY Stony Brook.
2016
December 2016
Congratulations to John Posillico on his graduation. John will begin the MAT at SUNY Brockport in January.
November 2016
Former lab member Josh Baccile successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis at Cornell. Josh will be doing a post-doc with Dave Tirrell at Cal Tech.
August 2016
John Posillico ’16 presents our research at the ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia.
June 2016
Danielle Cervasio ’17 and Tyler Schwertfeger ’18 join the lab. Welcome Danielle and Tyler!
January 2016
Former lab member Mike Houghton successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis at Cornell. Mike will be doing a post-doc with Peter Wipf at the University of Pittsburgh.
2015
May 2015
Dr. Rossi receives the SUNY Cortland Outstanding Achievement in Mentoring Undergraduate Research Award.
Congratulations to Nic Jorge on his graduation. Nic will be attending Dental School at Temple University.
April 2015
Our paper “Trail Following Response of Larval Cactoblastis cactorum to 2-Acyl-1,3-Cyclohexanediones” appears in the Journal of Chemical Ecology.
January 2015
John Posillico ’16 and MacKenzie Todd ’17 join the lab. Welcome John and Mackenzie!
2014
May 2014
Former lab member Brandon Milliken successfully defended his Master’s thesis at RIT. Congratulations Brandon.
Congratulations to Tyler Potter and Tucker Wright on their graduation. Tyler will pursue his PhD in Chemistry at Yale and Tucker will pursue his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh.
Congratulations to Mike Wolfin ’12 for being named the George G. Gryisco Outstanding Graduate Student in Applied Entomology at Cornell University.
Our paper with the Fitzgerald Group “Trail marking by the larvae of the cactus moth Cactoblastis cactorum (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)” appears in the Journal of Insect Science.
April 2014
Congratulations to Tyler Potter on being the first Cortland student to earn the President’s Recognition for Engaged Learning and Leadership Designation in Undergraduate Research. [link]
Nic Jorge, Biology ’15 joins the lab. Welcome Nic!
The group moves into the newly renovated Bowers Building.
January 2014
Former lab member Lee Widger ’07 successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at Johns Hopkins. Congratulations Lee.