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May 6, 2022: Shao-Chun defends his PhD dissertation

Submitted by alabdulghani on Sat, 05/07/2022 - 08:06

Congratulations to Dr. Shao-Chun Wang for successfully defending his PhD dissertation "Unraveling Mechanisms and Quantifying Active Sites by Using in-situ and ex-situ Infrared Spectroscopy"!

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April 4, 2022: Unni receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Submitted by alabdulghani on Mon, 04/04/2022 - 12:58

Congratulations to Unni for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! The full list of awardees is available here.

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March 14, 2022: Group goes for a hike to Picnic Point

Submitted by alabdulghani on Tue, 03/15/2022 - 12:18

The group goes for a hike to Picnic Point and Lakeshore Path on the first day of the school's spring recess.

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Sep. 9, 2021: Our collaborative paper on Visible Light-Driven CO2 Reduction is recognized as one of the most highly cited publications in JACS for the period 2018-2019

Submitted by swang595 on Thu, 09/09/2021 - 10:22

Our collaborative paper with Prof. Jier Huang from Marquette University on Visible Light-Driven CO2 Reduction is recognized as one of the most highly cited publications in JACS for the period 2018-2019. Congratulations to all co-authors!

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Aug. 13, 2021: Melissa defended PhD

Submitted by swang595 on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 12:08

Congratulations to Dr. Melissa Cendejas for successfully defending her PhD thesis "Investigation of active site structure and formation on boron-based oxidative dehydrogenation catalysts."!

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May 26, 2021: Lesli receives Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship

Submitted by swang595 on Wed, 05/26/2021 - 11:05

Congratulations to Lesli for receiving Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Lesli will develop a high-pressure modulation excitation system to study catalytic reactions under operando conditions.

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Apr. 29, 2021: Our collaboration with Prof. Rossini on high field NMR looking at boron catalysts was featured as a MagLab Science Highlight

Submitted by swang595 on Fri, 04/30/2021 - 12:00

Our collaboration with Prof. Rossini in Iowa State University on high field NMR looking at boron catalysts was featured as a MagLab Science Highlight.

Congrats to Melissa and Rick (Iowa State University) for driving this project!

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Apr 21, 2021: Unni and Abdullah receive Ragatz Teaching Assistant laboratory award

Submitted by swang595 on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 10:17

Congratulations to Unni and Abdullah for winning first and second place in the Ragatz Teaching Assistant laboratory award in Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE).

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Apr. 21, 2021: Will defended PhD

Submitted by swang595 on Fri, 04/23/2021 - 10:12

Congratulations to Dr. William McDermott for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Development of Boron-based Catalysts for the Oxidation of Light Alkanes to Olefins"!