Cailey Carpenter

Graduate Student

Department of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: cailey@mit.edu

Education

B.S. Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024

Awards & Honors

  • Peter B. Sherry Memorial Scholarship (2021)
  • Bagwell Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2021)
  • ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry (2023)
  • Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Award (2022, 2023)
  • Anthony Arduengo III Award (2024)
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2024)

About

Cailey completed her B.S. in Chemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She completed undergraduate research under Dr. Joseph Sadighi where she worked on the design and synthesis of novel NHC ligands for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO to ethylene on Cu surfaces.