Nicole Tanguileg was born in 1987 near Sacramento, California. She chose to pursue her undergraduate degree at OSU because of its great chemistry program and beautiful campus despite the shock of her family and friends. She is currently majoring in Chemistry with both a pre-med and pre-education option. Her research involved the synthesis of unsaturated macrocyclic lactones using the intramolecular Julia-Kocienski olefination. She enjoys biology as well as chemistry and does research in the Biomedical Sciences Department studying many human viruses. She has a special connection to organic chemistry but has great interest and passion for many things in life such as the subjects english, politics, and sociology.

"Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardees - Where Are They Now? Stereoselective Synthesis of Z-Configured alpha,beta-Unsaturated Macrocyclic Lactones and Diolides by Intramolecular Julia-Kocienski Olefination," Giesbrecht, H. E.; Knight, B. J.; Tanguileg, N. R.; Emerson, C. R.; Blakemore,* P. R. Synlett 2010, 374. [LINK][abstract]