Farewell, Bassil!
We send off Dr. Bassil El-Zaatari with our first in-person lab party since the pandemic! Bassil will be starting his independent career at Davidson College in North Carolina this fall. […]
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Welcome, Sonia!
Sonia Li joins us for the NSF Center for Sustainable Polymer’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Sonia is currently a chemical engineering major at UMN-Duluth. Welcome to team vitrimer!
Julia is named a 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
Julia is one of 16 early-career faculty selected as a 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar! Thank you to the Dreyfus Foundation for their support. See the Northwestern writeup here.
Congrats to Jacob, Ian, and the team for their publication in Macromolecules!
Jacob, Ian, Bassil, and Yan’s work on vitirmers derived from block copolymers is published in Macromolecules. Thanks to our collaborators in the Bates lab at UMN for help with SAXS, […]
Ian Pierce receives a NSF GRFP Honorable Mention!
Congrats to 2nd year Ian Pierce, who has been recognized with a NSF GRFP Honorable Mention!
Julia is named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow
The Kalow Lab’s work is recognized with a Sloan Research Fellowship. Thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for this recognition and supporting our research! [WCAS story] [List of awardees]
Chris’ paper with the Weiss Lab is published in Nano Letters!
Chris collaborated with the Weiss lab to design photoswitches that reversibly quench the photoluminescence of quantum dots through a PET mechanism. Check it out here! Thanks to the Northwestern MRSEC […]
Welcome Alexis and Christina!
New first-year students Alexis and Christina have joined the Kalow lab! Alexis graduated from Cornell, where he did research in the Frey lab. He will be working on covalent adaptable […]
2021 Marion Mason Milligan Award
The group’s work is recognized with a 2021 Marion Mason Milligan Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more here: https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-2021-marion-milligan-mason-award-winners
Article about Julia’s seminar for the Institute for Sustainability and Energy
Julia gave a joint virtual seminar with our collaborator Jeff Richards in ChBE on the group’s projects in reprocessable elastomers, “Chemistry and Engineering Approaches to Close the Loop on Elastomers”. […]