Professor Sheryl L. Wiskur received her bachelor of science degree from Arizona State University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003 under the direction of Eric Anslyn.  After completing a postdoctoral associate position with Gregory Fu at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she became a research assistant professor at the University of South Carolina.  In 2008 Dr. Wiskur entered into a tenure track position at USC and in 2011 received an NSF Early CAREER Award.  Her research interest is in synthetic methodology, with an emphasis on kinetic resolutions and mechanistic experiments to understand organic reactions.