{"id":13664,"date":"2024-12-01T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T04:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/?p=13664"},"modified":"2025-01-30T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:30:34","slug":"faculty-profile-maduka-ogba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2024\/12\/01\/faculty-profile-maduka-ogba\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Profile: Maduka Ogba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant Professor of Chemistry Maduka Ogba joined the 91̽»¨ Mudd faculty in July 2024. His research group focuses on using computational techniques to improve the efficiency of catalytic reactions. Catalysts are used in 80% of manufactured products and contribute to 20% of the United States\u2019 gross domestic products. However, there is a growing need to develop cheaper and more environmentally sustainable catalytic processes. Ogba and his students investigate using cheap, earth-abundant and environmentally sustainable salts to convert environmental pollutant molecules into useful drugs and materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\u2019s more about Maduka:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading h5\">What is your favorite part about your job?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Working with students in my lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading h5\">What is your most effective strategy for dealing with stress?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maintaining an exercise routine and prioritizing sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading h5\">What\u2019s your favorite food\/dish in the Hoch-Shanahan Dining Hall?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fried sweet plantains are excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading h5\">What book or podcast are you enjoying right now?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A Sunny Place for Shady People<\/em> by Mariana Enriquez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Chemistry Maduka Ogba joined the 91̽»¨ Mudd faculty in July 2024. His research group focuses on using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":13808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,217],"class_list":["post-13664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chemistry","category-unlisted"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13780,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664\/revisions\/13780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}