2023

Congratulations to the second years!

Our second-year students Daniel, Haley, and Jonathan all passed their qualifying exams and are officially PhD candidates! The group went to Stacked & Folded to celebrate. Great work!

Congrats, Dr. Zhang!

Vivian Zhang defended her PhD and will be returning to medical school at Feinberg to become a double doctor! Keep an eye out for one of her projects coming out […]

Double congrats for Dr. Berl!

Alexandra defends her thesis on the photopolymerization of Grignard monomers to make π-conjugated polymers, including her work on N-OEG polymers, which was just published in ACS Macro Lett! In the […]

Goodbye, Dr. Kirinda!

Dr. Viraj Kirinda has accepted a position at Kraton Corporation in Houston. He’s been an awesome mentor and colleague in the lab, and he will be missed!

Vivian is one of 8 winners of the 2023 Women Chemists’ Committee Merck Research Award. She’ll present her work at the ACS fall meeting at an award symposium. Congrats, Vivian!