Kalow Lab holiday party!
The Kalow Lab celebrates the holidays at Julia’s house. Everyone guessed their Secret Santa on the first try!
2017
Julia is selected as a 2018 Thieme Chemistry Journal Awardee
This award recognizes early-career faculty. Thank you to the editorial boards of Synthesis, Synlett, and Synfacts for this honor! For the full list of awardees, see: https://www.thieme.de/en/thieme-chemistry/thieme-chemistry-journals-awardees-107362.htm
Welcome Boyeong and Chris!
Two new first-year graduate students join the group. Boyeong Kang joins us from GIST in South Korea, and Chris Eckdahl comes from Oberlin. Welcome to the group!
The lab is awarded an ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator grant!
The lab receives a Doctoral New Investigator award from the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research Fund to support our project, “Visible Light-Promoted Functionalization of Coal-Tar Dyes: Mechanism and Synthetic Utility”. […]
Julia is selected for the AFOSR Young Investigator Program
Julia is one of 43 scientists and engineers awarded the AFOSR YIP! Read more in the press release here.
8th Chicago Organic Symposium
The group attends the 8th Chicago Organic Symposium at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Joe, Di, and Eliot present posters about their projects. Stay tuned for the 9th […]
Goodbye Kim
After a productive summer in the lab, Kim returns to Augustana College for her junior year. We’ll miss you!
Group dinner
The group has dinner at the Union Squared beer garden!
Welcome David and Spencer!
David Barsoum joins the lab as a rising third-year student. David did his undergraduate research with Prof. Lei Zhu at FSU. Spencer Burton joins the lab for a summer rotation. […]
Seed funding from the Center for Sustainable Polymers!
The lab is awarded a seed grant from the Center for Sustainable Polymers, a NSF Center for Chemical Innovation with researchers from UMN, Cornell, Northwestern, U Chicago, and Berkeley. Jacob’s […]