Stephen E. Bradforth, Emily R. Miller, William R. Dichtel, Adam K. Leibovich, Andrew L. Feig, James D. Martin, Karen S. Bjorkman, Zachary D. Schultz, and Tobin L. Smith, Nature, 2015, 523, 283 – 284. Full Text
As part of a group of Cotrell Scholars and representatives of the Association of American Universities, Will coauthored a commentary in Nature, University learning: Improve undergraduate science education. We call for changes in the ways in which research universities teach and evaluate learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses.…
Sam Hein has been awarded the Division of Organic Travel Award, a national award offered through the American Chemical Society. This award will support his travel to the upcoming national ACS Meeting in Boston. There he will present his work synthesizing contorted aromatics through benzannulation chemistry.…
Jeffrey F. Van Humbeck, Michael L. Aubrey, Alaaeddin Alsbaiee, Rob Ameloot, Geoffrey W. Coates, William R. Dichtel and Jeffrey R. Long, Chem. Sci., 2015, 6, 5499-5505, DOI: 10.1039/C5SC02052B.
Chao Sun’s manuscript on graphene oxide functionalization using tripodal compounds was published by Chemistry of Materials. This study indicates that passivating the hydrophobic regions of graphene oxide will maximize its biocompatibility.…
We are grateful for support of our research by the Army Research Office in the form of a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant, which will fund a team of researchers from Cornell (Dichtel, Ralph groups), UC-Berkeley (Crommie, Wang, Yaghi groups), and Georgia Tech (Marder group), along with collaborator Jean-Luc Brédas from KAUST.…
Deepti and Jenny successfully defended their thesis research and passed their “B” exams. Congratulations Drs. Gopalakrishnan and Novotney!…
Chao Sun, Katherine L. Walker, Devin L. Wakefield, and William R. Dichtel, Chem. Mater., 2015, 27, 4499–4504, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01954.
Deepti Gopalakrishnan and William R. Dichtel, Chem. Mater., 2015, 27, 3813–3816, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00857. (Open Access).
Spencer Brucks, now a graduate student with Luis Campos, won a prestigious Presidential Teaching Award at Columbia University. The award recognizes only three graduate students across the entire university, and Spencer is only the second chemist to be recognized since the award’s inception in 1996!…
