Ping, a member of Professor Ken Shimizu’s group, passed his Ph.D. dissertation defense on November 3, 2015.  His defense was entitled, “Approaching Aromatic Interactions with Small Molecule Model Systems:  Assessing N-Heteroarenes in CH-π and π-stacking Interactions, Crystal Engineering of Atropisomeric Rotors, and Developing Responsive Organic Charge-Transfer Complex.”