Woojung Ji has recently accepted a new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher with Professor Anne McNeil at the University of Michigan. Congratulations Woojung!…

William Dichtel has been named the National Laureate in Chemistry by the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. The 2020 Blavatnik National Awards competition received 305 nominees from 161 research institutions across 41 states. Nominees, eligible if age 42 or younger, were evaluated by three independent juries.…

Brittany Trang was recently featured in ACS Graduate and Postdoctoral Chemist. The piece addresses specifically why it is important that we have more discussions about failure and what that means in your career path. Congratulations Brittany!…

Shiwei Wang was named a Presidential Graduate Fellow for his upcoming Ph.D. study at MIT in Chemical Biology. The fellowship was established to recruit the most outstanding students worldwide to pursue graduate studies at the Institute and currently supports 110-125 new graduate students each year.…

Austin Evans, Leslie Hamachi, and Rebecca Li win prizes in the 2019 “The Art of Science” NUANCE Fest Image Competition for their entries titled “It’s a Small World After All” (Evans), “Parrot Portrait” (Hamachi) and “Nano Trix” (Li) with microscopy images of covalent organic frameworks.…

Leslie Hamachi has accepted the position of Assistant Professor at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in the department of chemistry and biochemistry. Congratulations on the next step of your career, Leslie!…

Julie Fenton has been named to the inaugural ACS Materials Letters Early Career Advisory Board. The board, comprised of 10 rising materials researchers from across the globe, will work with the journal’s editorial team to provide a stronger link between the journal, the materials community, and quickly evolving research areas and trends.…

Will Dichtel was selected as one of 10 Finalists in Chemistry for the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.  The Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists is the world’s largest unrestricted prize for early-career scientists. Originally founded by the Blavatnik Family Foundation in 2013 and independently administered by the New York Academy of Sciences to elevate the work and research of early-career scientists, the Awards recognize the past accomplishments and future promise of the most talented faculty-rank scientists and engineers aged 42 years and younger at America’s top academic and research institutions.…

Daylan Sheppard has received the 2020 TRFA Excellence in Thermoset Polymer Research Award. This award was presented for his work on the paper Recycling Cross-Linked Polyurethane Foam Using Twin Screw Extrusion.

Daylan will receive the award at the TRFA Annual Meeting in April 2020.…

Julie Fenton was named a finalist for the 2019 Reaxys PhD Prize. This prize, which began in 2010, celebrates innovative and rigorous research by ambitious young chemists. Julie was chosen from over 360 entries from around the globe for this honor.…