Miles Wheaton '25 is the recipient of the ChemistryDepartment Sustained Excellence Award
Awarded to a chemistry or biochemistry student specifically recognized by the Chemistry Department faculty for distinguished achievement and exceptional future potential.
About Miles:
Miles Wheaton is a Senior studying Chemistry in the School of H&S at Ithaca college, with a minor in mathematics. Since the spring semester of his freshman year at IC, Miles has been involved in chemistry research with Professor Anna Larsen. He has worked on a number of projects such as synthesizing small ligands to produce coordination compounds with interesting magnetic properties, NMR studies of iridium-pincer complexes, and the synthesis of tripodal tetradentate pyrrole phosphine-based ligands. In the summer of his sophomore year, Miles participated in the 2023 Catalysis and Motion Chemistry REU program at Penn State University, where he synthesized several ruthenium pincer complexes while working in the Kuo Lab. Over the past summer he also attended a Chemistry REU program at the University of Oregon, during which time he worked in the Harlow lab to observe various phenomena occurring at gold electrode surfaces. At the moment, Miles is primarily interested in traditional organic and organometallicsynthesis, as well as certain aspects of electrochemistry and surface chemistry. Currently, he is in the process of applying to graduate schools with the goal of obtaining a graduate degree in chemistry.
Other Academic Achievements:
Dean’s List
Oracle Honor Society Member
ACS Book Award 2023 recipient