Past Graduate Student

Brent Yoder was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but also spent time growing up in California and Indiana. He holds an Associate of Arts degree from Hesston College in Kansas and a Bachelor of Science degree from Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA, where he majored in Biochemistry and minored in Business Administration. While at EMU, he did research with Glenn Kauffman on the isolation and structure elucidation of synthetic bicyclic compounds, and he presented that work at the 2000 National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Missoula, Montana. He chose to immediately continue his education at Virginia Tech as a member of Dr. Kingston's natural products research group. During his gradaute studies, he served as a lecturer in organic chemistry, presented orally at two meetings of the American Society of Pharmacognosy, and received a Graduate Research Award from the Department of Chemistry. Brent also married his college sweetheart, Rachel Hoffman, in July 2004, and he was very involved in Graduate Christian Fellowship, Blacksburg Christian Fellowship and Juxtaposition (VT's first all-male a cappella group) while enrolled as a student. In December 2005, he graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (Organic) and a Future Professoriate Graduate Certificate. He is currently teaching organic chemistry and biochemistry at Greenville College in Illinois, and this fall he will begin a new job as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Illinois College in Jacksonbville, IL. Of course, he will always be a Hokie at heart (Go Tech!).

Brent's new contact information at Greenville College is to the left below his photograph.