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3rd year seminars!

Congrats to Daniel, Haley, and Jonathan for giving their third year seminars! Their projects covered a wide swath of Kalow lab research (vitrimers, photoswitchable hydrogels, and photopolymerization).

Group "holiday" party!

We continued our tradition of holding a holiday party in February at Wilmette Bowling Center. We learned that Alec is very good at bowling (especially considering he’s only done it […]

Zamira and Jolly join the lab as first-year students. Learn more about them in current members. Welcome to the group!

Alec (Jiun-wei) Wu joins the lab as a Post-doc (read more about him in current members). Welcome to the group!

Emily developed a photoredox Diels–Alder polymerization to make an unusual class of sp3-rich ladder polymers. It’s online now in Polymer Chemistry–check it out here! Congrats to Emily, Pradipta, and our collaborators […]

Kalow lab at ACS San Francisco

Almost the whole lab came to the Fall ACS meeting in San Francisco! Students gave talks, presented posters, and came to support Julia at her award symposium. We had a […]

Elizabeth Choi and Jolly Patro join the lab as zero-year rotators. Read more about them in current members. Welcome to the group!

Congrats to Dr. McClure!

Emily defended her PhD to a packed audience! Next, she will be a DOE Clean Energy Innovator Fellow at the Illinois Commerce Commission. Keep an eye out for her work […]