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Dr. Jenifer N. Nalbandian
Dr. Jenifer N. Nalbandian is an enthusiastic chemist based in Southern California. She has 15+ years of chemistry experience in Organic Chemistry, including a decade of teaching experience as a university professor of Organic Chemistry. Her passion is connecting students to the field of chemistry through wisdom, humor, and empathy, and her teaching style is effective at developing bright, independent-thinking scientists. She has also pursued many research endeavors in the topics of Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry and Chemical Education. Dr. Nalbandian is also a big fan of musicals, long walks, and embroidery.
Accomplishments
2025 Trustees Distinguished Professor of the Year
California Baptist University
2019 American Chemical Society ChemLuminary Award
Best National Chemistry Week event organized by a student group
American Chemical Society San Gorgonio section
Chair (2022-2023), Executive board member (2019-Present)
Ernest Propes Endowed Graduate Fellowship, 2011
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship, 2009
National Science Foundation Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Fellowship, 2007
90+ undergraduate and high school research students
60+ research presentations at local & national conferences
Education
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry University of California, Riverside
M.S. in Chemistry University of California, Riverside
B.S. in Chemistry Pepperdine University
Select Conference Papers
Nalbandian, J. N., Ryan, T., Lake, M., Berkebile, S., Slater, T., "Synthesis of novel tri-armed shape-memory polymers built from ε-caprolactone and δ-valerolactone subunits," American Chemical Society, ACS Fall 2025 National Meeting, San Diego, CA. (March 24, 2025).
Nalbandian, J. N., Alva, K., Ghandour, M., Khan, S., "Using Legos to Teach Electron Configuration," American Chemical Society, ACS Fall 2025 National Meeting, San Diego, CA. (March 24, 2025).
Nalbandian, J. N., Wood, C., Escalera, D., Scott, T., "Active Learning-The Game of Redox," American Chemical Society, ACS Fall 2023 National Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (August 13, 2023).
Nalbandian, J. N., Culp, D., Marsh, A., Johnson, J., Trainer-Davis, M., "Novel Shape-Memory Polymers," American Chemical Society, ACS Fall 2023 National Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (August 13, 2023).
Nalbandian, J.N., "Active Learning in the Organic Chemistry Classroom," American Chemical Society, ACS Spring 2022 National Meeting, San Diego, CA. (March 23, 2022).
Nalbandian, J.N., "An Organic Chemistry Lab Activity that Improves Writing Skills," American Chemical Society, 2020 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Corvallis, OR. (March 31, 2020).
Nalbandian, J.N., "Making the most of the first lab period of Organic Chemistry," American Chemical Society, ACS Fall 2019 National Meeting, San Diego, CA. (August 28, 2019).
Select Publications
J. N. Nalbandian, "Synthesis of Small Molecule Candidate Insulin Mimics by the Claisen Rearrangement" 2013, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Riverside.
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tf6m10c
Pirrung, M., Nalbandian, J.N., "Catalyzed Claisen Rearrangements of O-Allyl Kojates" 2013, Tetrahedron Letters, 54(29):3752-3754.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2013.05.002
R. Williams, J. N. Nalbandian, A. Tu, Y. Wang, "Nuclease Digestion and Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Oligodeoxyribonucleotides Containing 1,2-GpG, 1,2-ApG, and 1,3-GpXpG Cisplatin Intrastrand Cross-links" 2012, Clinica Chimica Acta, 420.
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