Dr. Pellizzeri earned her BS in Chemistry from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY in May 2009. During the fall semester of her senior year she studied aborad in Copenhagen, Denmark at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS). She performed research during the spring semester of her senior year with Dr. Larry French on aromatic, boron-containing heterocycles as potential Diels-Alder Dienophiles. She spent the summer before graduate school as a research intern at AMRI in Albany, NY under the direction of Dr. R. Jason Herr in the medicinal chemistry department.