Article Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Article Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Utah State University graduate student Anastassia Alexandrova, undergraduate K. Alexander Birch and chemistry professor Alexander Boldyrev, recently had an article published in The Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Working alongside Boldyrev, the two students spent almost a year on the study, which expounds on new chemical formations of boron. The study was published about nine months later.

Alexandrova, a Russian native, received her master's degree at Saratov State University in Russia and has been at Utah State for almost three years working on her doctorate. Birch grew up in Hyrum and has now graduated from Utah State with dual bachelor's degrees in chemistry and computer science.

Siberian native Boldyrev spent almost 20 years in Moscow, Russia, teaching at the Moscow Physical Technical Institute, then, seven years at the University of Utah before coming to Utah State.

Boldyrev is very pleased with the publication of the article and the ongoing graduate studies in the chemistry department. He said the department's goal is to continue "using computers to design new molecules and materials."