Jonathan Paul Litz recently graduated with high distinction from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, earning a Bachelor of Science degree with departmental honors in chemistry. Litz was inducted into Phi Lambda Upsilon, the honorary chemical society, and was also awarded the Mindlin Prize for Innovative Ideas in Science, the American Chemical Society Division of Polymer Chemistry Award, and the Dotty and Art Campbell Prize for his high achievement and promise. A graduate of Our Lady of Malibu School and Loyola High School, Litz has just begun a Ph.D. program in organic chemistry at Scripps Research Institute in San Diego.