Group News

Our lab has been awarded a NSF-LEAPS grant to study metal cluster-based asymmetric catalysis. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316991&HistoricalAwards=false&fbclid=IwAR2_ERlgRmHUOQ-pREnBGXs6eMBLRapsqnl6-Fzymt8cyTgTIpv0k5C_4eI

Anh-Tu Pham joins our group as a first-year graduate student. A warm welcome!

Our lab has been awarded a collaborative WelchX grant! We will work with the Martin Group at Baylor University to develop new sustainable heterogeneous catalysts. https://welch1.org/grants-programs/welchx-retreat-and-pilot-grants Many thanks to the Welch Foundation!

We are very excited to share that we have received a Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award. We are very grateful to the Sloan Foundation & RCSA for their support!  https://rescorp.org/news/2023/02/7-team-projects-funded-in-3rd-year-of-scialog-negative-emissions-science

Sayan’s first-author paper in collaboration with researchers from Cornell University, University of North Texas, and Nottingham Trent University is now online in Macromolecular Rapid Communications! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/marc.202200751

Katie joins our lab as a first year graduate student. Welcome, Katie!

Our lab has been awarded an ACS PRF DNI grant! We are extremely grateful to ACS PRF for supporting our work on boron-based ligands to make atomically precise catalysts.

Sanjana presented her research on covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and placed 3rd at the Texas Junior Academy of Science (TJAS) science competition. Congrats Sanjana- We are very proud of you!

Dia is selected as a Scialog Fellow for the 2022 Negative Emissions Science (NES) Scialog https://rescorp.org/scialog/nes-fellows-and-facilitators

Dylan is awarded an Engaged Learning research grant. Congrats Dylan!

Xena wins a Hamilton Undergraduate Research Award for the AcademicYear 2022–23. Congrats Xena!

Dylan has just been named a 2022-2023 Robert Mayer Undergraduate Research Fellow. Congrats Dylan!

Justin is inducted into the highly esteemed Hyer Society. Congrats Justin!

Nethmini and Dylan win the Chemistry Department’s Best TA and the ACS Inorganic Chemistry Awards, respectively. Congrats Nethmini & Dylan!

Our lab is awarded a Hamilton Syringe Grant. Thank you Hamilton Company!

Our lab’s first paper (in collaboration with the Aikens Group at Kansas State) is now published in JACS. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.1c10778

We are excited to welcome Ayan and Sayan to the group!

Dylan wins a Hamilton Undergraduate Research Award for the AcademicYear 2021–22. Congrats Dylan!

Nethmini and Meli are the first graduate students to join the lab- Welcome Nehmini & Meli!

We are very excited to welcome Kundan as the lab’s first postdoc.

Justin, Dylan, Roumina, Xena, Mohamed, Hiren, and Hagan join the lab. Let’s have fun!